FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                               September 17, 2004

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ProcessClaims appointed to CIECA Board

Northbrook, IL – Darrell Ebert, Chairman of the CIECA Board of Trustees, announced today that ProcessClaims was appointed to the CIECA Board of Trustees during their August Board Meeting in Chicago.

Mark Kovacs will represent ProcessClaims on the Board. Mark resides in Dana Point, Southern California and attended Cal State Long Beach. He spent most of his 30-year career in the Autobody industry where he managed large repair facilities in Southern California and taught estimating skills to estimators. He is the current Chairman of CIECA Certification Committee and is an active participant on the Architecture Committee.

Mark said, “ProcessClaims is very excited to join CIECA’s Board and looks forward to continuing our active role in the association.  The Board position will provide ProcessClaims with the opportunity to further support CIECA in its mission of developing standards for the effective use of electronic commerce in the collision industry.”

About ProcessClaims: ProcessClaims is a provider of software connectivity and business process solutions. The ProcessClaims solutions enhance and extend insurance organization's existing IT investment by automating communication and information flow between employees, partners and their extended community.

More information about CIECA can be viewed on the CIECA web site: www.cieca.com.

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About CIECA: CIECA assists the Collision Industry in the effective use of electronic commerce and the National Information Superhighway. It is directed by a Board of Trustees and has offices in Illinois. Its members jointly work on Standards Development Committees (SDM) addressing standards for Electronic Data Interchange, Interoperability, XML and Imaging.

CIECA addresses Electronic Commerce issues on a national scale. It has developed processes for identifying and prioritizing industry issues, establishing SDMs to design solutions, and then working these solutions through the broadest base of acceptance mechanisms possible, such as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).