iiX consultants are available to meet with insurance companies to assess how best to implement the companies' iiX InterLink connection.

For additional information contact iiX by phone at: 800-281-8787 or e-mail: information@iix.com

AT&T Insurance Solution will provide National Grange Mutual(NGM), a transaction platform on the Internet for online processing and information retrieval at the NGM Web site. AT&T Insurance Solutions will provide NGM employees, customers, information suppliers, and independent agents with:

* online billing, claims and policy interactive access and inquiry;

* upload of new business applications;

* download;

* policy change requests, first notice of loss, and immediate claim service payment requests;

* electronic mail service between NGM and its independent agents;

* decision support via third party information integration and retrieval; and

* assistance with home page development, hosting and maintenance.

Additional information is available from Patricia Sieh at AT&T Public Relations, (908) 221-7473.

Equifax Insurance Services Group soon will be known as ChoicePoint. Later this summer, pending an IRS ruling on a stock exchange, Equifax Insurance Services Group will be spun off from Equifax, becoming a separate, independent public company.

ChoicePoint will offer the same services as Equifax does today: risk management information to the commercial and personal lines insurance markets, and will be comprised of all the current Insurance Services operations.

Additional information is available from Kelly McLoughlin at ChoicePoint in Alpharetta, Georgia: (770) 740-6518.

Strategic Insurance Software, Inc., (S.I.S.) is now telemarketing the latest version of its SEMCI Partner agency management system directly to independent agents. Until now, it had been marketed through company relationships.

Version 3.0 includes an insurance object platform (IOP) which supports both AL3 and AL4 ACORD standards as well as APT for interface and communications. IOP permits agencies to interface with the companies' choice of networks--IVANS, the Internet, or direct company "point to point" access.

This expanded flexibility also enables agencies to send and receive "traditional" policy data as well as voice, pictures, MVRs, and other "non-traditional" data.

For additional information contact Ellen Jefferies at S.I.S. in Columbus, Ohio at 800-747-9273.

AMS Services, Inc., has introduced AMS CLASX (Commercial Lines Account Submission Exchange), an electronic submission tool for commercial lines. CLASX uses AMS' PS4 product as the submission file and Internet e-mail to transmit. CLASX transmits company specific and ACORD application forms along with supplemental information such as risk surveys, engineering reports, etc. The product is currently being piloted by CNA and their agents.

Additional information is available from Betsy Hopkins at AMS Services, Inc., in Windsor, Connecticut: (860) 602-6000.

Vendors and companies that made a significant contribution to electronic data interchange (EDI) during the past year were honored at the ACORD Technology Conference '97 held in May at Walt Disney's Yacht & Beach Club.

Applied Systems, Inc., won both the Download Vendor of the Year Award for Total Implementations and The Upload Vendor of the Year for Total Implementations. This is the fourth consecutive year that Applied has won the Download Award.

Doris, Inc., won the Download Vendor of the Year Award for Percent of Growth.

AMS Services, Inc., won the Upload Vendor of the Year Award for Percent of Growth.

American States Insurance Company won The Download Company of the Year Award for Total Implementations.

EMC Insurance Companies won the Download Company of the Year Award for Percent of Growth.