ADP Claims Solutions Group Introduces New Claimsflo Wireless Application That Offers Wireless Communications Ability to Adjusters.

SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 1999--ADP Claims Solutions Group (CSG), the leading provider of information services for automotive-insurance claims management, has introduced Claimsflo Wireless, a new product that frees mobile adjusters from their reliance on traditional modem and phone-line connections by providing a wireless connection for sending and receiving claims data.

This data includes assignments, estimates, total loss valuations and digital images.

Claimsflo is a comprehensive family of products and services. Claimsflo Wireless utilizes the strengths of the BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network. Claimsflo enables insurers to instantly and intelligently disseminate and receive information from their trading partners and staff adjusters while eliminating redundancies within the internal claims process.

"With Claimsflo Wireless, adjusters no longer have to go into the office to upload and download claims data," said Susan Raifman, vice president of product management for ADP CSG.

"Since adjusters no longer have to connect to a traditional phone line, Claimsflo Wireless allows them to send or receive claims data at any time and in any location. That means that regardless of where an adjuster is in their territory, they have immediate access to their updated assignments and have an instant connection for transmitting reports on estimates they have written."

Since it is built with an entirely wireless infrastructure, Claimsflo Wireless improves an insurer's ability to communicate with adjusters regardless of where they are at any given time. It also provides a mobile data-communications service that allows mobile adjusters to get more work done in less time.

"Claimsflo Wireless provides insurers with reliable wireless communications, ensuring that assignments are transmitted quickly and securely," said Raifman. "And since the technology is based on an open-systems data architecture, it can be easily enabled for wireless modems or applications software used by virtually any host network."

"We chose to partner with ADP because they provide innovative information applications that deliver increased productivity," said Vicky Obenshain, CLU, CHFC, director of insurance market development at BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. "They also provide improved customer- service benefits that are consistent with BellSouth Wireless Data's goals."

BellSouth Wireless Data, with headquarters in Woodbridge, N.J., is an expert in providing proven wireless-communications solutions that eliminate barriers between critical information and mobile users. The company delivers a competitive advantage and increases personal productivity for aggressive, innovative companies and individuals leveraging communications technologies to meet their strategic goals.

BellSouth Wireless Data, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., operates its wireless-data service throughout the United States, covering more than 93 percent of the urban business population located in 266 metropolitan areas with a total population of 200 million people.

ADP Claims Solutions Group, with headquarters in San Ramon, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP). ADP, with more than $4.5 billion in revenues and more than 425,000 clients, is one of the largest independent computing-services firms in the world.

ADP CSG provides the property and casualty industry and its business partners with integrated and independent information services for automotive, medical and property claims management in 18 countries.

ADP Claims Solutions Group is located at 2010 Crow Canyon Place, San Ramon, Calif. 94583; telephone [phone]. The company's Web site can be found at http://www.csg.adp.com.