CONDUCTOR, the online financial supersite from Block Financial, offers insurance services from QuickQuote's FiCom Network.KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1996--Block Financial Corporation today announced that CONDUCTOR(R) (http://www.conductor.com), its online supersite A Web site that provides links to other Web sites on a particular topic. It generally includes news and information about the subject as well as personal commentary. Blogs and portals are examples of supersites. See blog and portal. for all personal financial needs, has selected the QuickQuote Insurance Agency's FiCom Network to provide insurance products to its customers. Through its insurance comparison purchasing system, QuickQuote offers free, instant, online comparisons of the nation's top carriers and their best policies. QuickQuote offers over 1,500 different term life and annuity plans from such respected companies as Protective Life Insurance Company, Valley Forge/CNA, First Colony Life Insurance, Jackson National, AIG Life, and Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company. Visitors to the CONDUCTOR site simply click on the Instant Insurance Quotes icon for information about term life insurance Term Life Insurance A policy with a set duration limit on the coverage period. Once the policy is expired, it is up to the policy owner to decide whether to renew the term life insurance policy or to let the coverage terminate. This type of insurance policy contrasts with permanent life insurance, whose duration extends until the policy owner reaches 100 years of age (i.e. death). policies, annuities, and answers to Frequently Asked Questions. "Block Financial Corporation is committed to addressing the whole spectrum of consumers' personal financial needs," said William P. Anderson, President, Block Financial Corporation. "With the introduction of this insurance service, we have begun to build another powerful segment of CONDUCTOR." The QuickQuote insurance comparison system is simple. The customer enters some preliminary data on the insurance quote page and the service instantaneously generates the database's top five "best buys" in term life insurance, along with company profiles. If the customer chooses to purchase, he or she simply clicks on the product name to display a preliminary application form that can be processed electronically. "We are very pleased to bring QuickQuote to Block Financial's online supersite for personal finance," said Daniel P. Wager, President of QuickQuote Insurance Agency. "QuickQuote will enhance CONDUCTOR with global access to a customized database of top insurance carriers and real-time, personalized insurance quotes." For more information on this service, please visit CONDUCTOR at http://www.conductor.com. If you are unable to take advantage of this online service through CONDUCTOR, please call QuickQuote at 1-800-540-8191. CONDUCTOR is an online supermarket for financial services. Through agreements with community banks, brokerage houses, insurance companies, mutual fund firms, and credit card companies, CONDUCTOR will offer the largest variety of high quality financial services on the Internet. Block Financial's agreement with Jack Henry & Associates, providers of integrated computer systems for banks and financial institutions, brings CONDUCTOR to its 1,240 bank customers. In addition, Block recently announced agreements with Reuters to provide CONDUCTOR users with news updates, stock quotes, and weather, and with DST Systems, Inc. to offer mutual fund information on the site. Started in 1993, Block Financial Corporation, an H&R Block Inc. subsidiary, develops and provides technology-driven financial services, such as a credit card and online financial services and a middleware home banking solution. In addition, Block Financial Corporation publishes personal productivity software programs, including Kiplinger TaxCut, Kiplinger's Small Business Attorney and Kiplinger's Home Legal Advisor. Founded in 1955, H&R Block, Inc. is a diversified company offering tax and financial services. H&R Block is the country's largest tax preparation firm, serving 17.4 million taxpayers in nearly 9,700 offices in the United States, Canada, Australia and 15 other countries and territories in 1996. In the United States, H&R Block Tax Services, Inc. handled approximately one in every seven returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service this past season. The FiCom Network, a division of the QuickQuote Insurance Agency, Inc., of Incline Village, NV, is an insurance services program developed and customized for the exclusive use of financial institutions throughout the U.S. QuickQuote developed the Internet's first "interactive" insurance and annuity comparison service in July 1995 and represents more than 35 insurance carriers. CONTACT: Press Contacts: Joanne Serling/Denise Walpole Wilson McHenry Company jserling@wmc.com dwalpole@wmc.com 212-527-0800 |
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