ChoicePoint Acquires DATEQ Information Network, Inc.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999--

Acquisition enhances company's personal automobile

underwriting services

ChoicePoint Inc. (NYSE: CPS) announced today the acquisition of DATEQ Information Network, Inc. of Norcross, Georgia (DATEQ) from Trans Union Corporation, and an agreement which allows ChoicePoint to sell Trans Union credit reports to its customers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

DATEQ is a provider of underwriting services to the personal automobile insurance market, including its UNCLE(tm) automobile claims database, motor vehicle records and DADS(tm), DATEQ's driver discovery product. Under the agreement, ChoicePoint will acquire 100% ownership of DATEQ from Trans Union. Additionally, ChoicePoint can now offer Trans Union credit reports to ChoicePoint customers through ChoicePoint's new CP Switch(tm) delivery platform.

"We continue to make investments to more fully serve the industry's evolving information needs," explained David Lee, ChoicePoint senior vice president. "This relationship enhances our expanding credit services to ChoicePoint customers and offers broader information products to DATEQ customers."

"Our focus in the insurance industry is on offering our core credit products directly to customers," stated Jay Frank, senior vice president of Trans Union. "Our decision to exit the DATEQ business sharpens that focus, and the relationship with ChoicePoint brings value to the customers of both companies in the process."

ChoicePoint currently offers a complete range of information products and services to personal lines property and casualty insurance customers. The company recently launched CP Switch, a credit information delivery system allowing access to all three major credit bureau reports based on an individual customer's requirements. In addition, ChoicePoint recently announced the development of pre-screen marketing services and the acquisition of Customer Development Corporation (CDC) to address its customers' increasing need for targeted customer acquisition and retention programs.

ChoicePoint (NYSE:CPS) is among the world's largest single-source providers of information and custom systems to mitigate insurance, business and government risk and fraud. Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, the company serves more than 5,000 individual customers and institutions worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies, federal, state and local government agencies, and the nation's top insurance carriers. ChoicePoint provides comprehensive risk management information to the commercial and personal lines insurance markets, including life and health and property and casualty underwriting and claims information. In business and government markets, services include pre-employment background screening and drug testing, public records information, UCC search and filing.

In 1997, ChoicePoint and its more than 3,700 industry professionals generated over $417 million in revenues helping companies and government agencies better manage business risk. For more information, contact ChoicePoint, 1000 Alderman Drive, Alpharetta, Georgia 30005, or visit www.choicepointinc.com.