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Professionals Direct Insurance Services Expands Relationship with Visibillity, Inc. by Signing Multi-Year Extension.


CHICAGO -- Visibillity's collaborative design and flexible implementation assist Professionals Direct in growing its business into new geographic areas

Visibillity, Inc., the leading collaborative litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation.
 management solution provider for the claims industry, announced today that Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , Michigan-based, Professionals Direct Insurance Services (PDIS PDIS Parallel and Distributed Information Systems
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PDIS Preparation for Dissemination
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) has signed a multi-year contract extension to serve its growing business. A Visibillity client since 2004, PDIS provides a variety of insurance services to law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
, including professional malpractice, business owners, workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. , Employment Practices Liability coverage and benefits packages.

"Visibillity did a wonderful job showing us how their solution could be configured to meet our unique business needs," said Mary Ursul, PDIS' Vice President of Insurance Operations. "Their service did not diminish once we signed the contract. When we expressed the desire to capture vendor invoices beyond just legal bills, Visibillity responded by enhancing their product and delivering the perfect solution to meet our requirements."

Visibillity's willingness to configure the implementation to PDIS' needs, as well as positive feedback voiced by PDIS' law firm partners also impressed Ms. Ursul. "We began using the solution with a small number of our law firms. Attorneys quickly found that the solution was easy to use and that it promoted a less adversarial ad·ver·sar·i·al  
adj.
Relating to or characteristic of an adversary; involving antagonistic elements: "the chasm between management and labor in this country, an often needlessly adversarial . . .
 approach to budgeting and invoicing." This collaborative process led PDIS to increase the number of firms using the solution. "Our law firms now see potential billing concerns prior to submitting their invoices and are able to make informed decisions - it really works!" Mary continued, "By the end of the year, we plan to implement all of our firms nationwide."

Added Visibillity CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Faiz Ahmed, "We are elated e·lat·ed  
adj.
Exultantly proud and joyful.



e·lated·ly adv.

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 that Professionals Direct elected to expand its commitments to Visibillity and our solution. We are pleased that we are joining forces with a progressive and growing company and have the opportunity to help them as they grow to new heights. We look forward to working closely with PDIS and to exceeding their expectations as their needs evolve."

About Professionals Direct, Inc.

Professionals Direct is a leader in tailored coverage to law firms. Through its ProDirectSelect and ProDirectPremier products, Professionals Direct meets the professional malpractice coverage needs of any sized law firm. In addition, Professionals Direct provides Business Owners Policy, Workers' Compensation, Employment Practice Liability (EPL 1. EPL - Early PL/I.
2. EPL - Experimental Programming Language.
3. EPL - Eden Programming Language. U Washington. Based on Concurrent Euclid and used with the Eden distributed OS. Influenced Emerald and Distributed Smalltalk.
) in addition to Life, Health, Dental and Disability insurance products. The company has rights to write business in 22 states including MI, IL, and MN. For more information, e-mail PDIS@ProfessionalsDirect.com, call 616.456.8899, or visit www.professionalsdirect.com.

About Visibillity

Visibillity delivers the leading collaborative claims and litigation management solution for the Professional Malpractice industry and strengthens the partnership between claims professionals and their law firms. The result is a significant decrease in overall litigation expenses and a dramatically reduced total claim outcome. The company offers a unique suite of Internet-based services that incorporate four key components: Collaboration, Automation, Analysis and Success. This includes: claim assignment, litigation budgeting and planning, eBilling and real-time bill-to-budget review. In this way, Visibillity provides a seamless electronic solution for managing litigation. Representative customers include Argonaut Insurance, CNA (Certified NetWare Administrator) See Novell certification.  Insurance, Employers Mutual Casualty Company and Kansas Medical Mutual Insurance Company. For more information, e-mail info@visibillity.com, call 312.616.5900, or visit www.visibillity.com.
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