The Progressive Corporation Announces Investor Relations Conference Call.

MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio -- As previously announced, The Progressive Corporation will host a one-hour conference call on Friday, March 2, 2007, beginning at 9:30 a.m. eastern time. The Company's 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2007. In addition, on the same date, the Company's 2006 Shareholders' Report, including the Letter to Shareholders written by the Company's President and CEO Glenn Renwick, will be available on the Company's Web site at www.progressive.com/annualreport . Under the Company's conference call format, the Company will not make detailed comments in addition to these published reports, but management will respond to questions at that time.

Simultaneous broadcast of the conference call will be provided by phone and online.

To register for the conference call and receive the necessary call-in and webcast details, visit the Company's Web site at http://investors.progressive.com/events.asp.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com, Thomson/CCBN's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

Replays of the conference call, both through the webcast and by phone, will be available approximately one hour after the call concludes. The archived webcast will be able to be accessed from the Company's Web site at http://investors.progressive.com/archive.asp and will remain available until March 4, 2008. The phone replay will be available by calling 1-800-756-0041 and will remain available until March 16, 2007.

About Progressive

The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, in business since 1937, is the country's third largest auto insurance group and largest seller of motorcycle and personal watercraft policies based on premiums written, and is a market leader in commercial auto insurance.

Progressive is committed to becoming consumers' #1 choice for auto insurance by providing competitive products and rates that meet drivers' needs throughout their lifetimes, superior online and in-person customer service, and best-in-class, 24-hour claims service, including its concierge level of claims service available at service centers throughout the United States.

Progressive companies offer consumers choices in how to shop for, buy and manage their auto insurance policies. The Agency Business sells Progressive Drive Insurance private passenger auto insurance through more than 30,000 independent agencies. The Direct Business sells Progressive Direct[R] private passenger auto insurance online at www.progressive.com and by phone at 1-800-PROGRESSIVE. Each business makes independent decisions about private passenger auto insurance product design and pricing, and both offer Progressive's other products, including Progressive Commercial, Progressive Motorcycle, Progressive Boat, etc.

The Common Shares of The Progressive Corporation, the Mayfield Village, Ohio-based holding company, are publicly traded at (NYSE:PGR). For more information, please visit www.progressive.com. Progressive and Drive are registered trademarks.