Press Release

Hastings Mutual Insurance Chooses Duck Creek Technologies’ EXAMPLE Platform®

Duck Creek’s solution offers the quickest way to the Web for Hastings Mutual
...enables online submissions and quoting for agents

Bolivar, MO, August 17, 2004 – Duck Creek Technologies, Inc., a provider of rating and policy administration software for the insurance industry, today announced that Michigan-based Hastings Mutual Insurance Company has selected Duck Creek’s EXAMPLE Platform® Product Suite, including: EXAMPLE Author®, EXAMPLE Server®, EXAMPLE Express®.

The Duck Creek Platform will initially enhance and support Hastings’ existing web-based products. The Platform will provide the user interface and rules needed to capture information and interact with the existing rating engine to provide quotes to agents. Future application of the Platform include the usage of Duck Creek’s rating and policy processing for existing and new lines of business.

Bob Eshelbrenner, VP of IT with Hastings Mutual, commented, “Like most carriers, we have made a significant investment in technology. Our objective was to preserve our investment, while taking advantage of new technologies that could get our products to the Web. The Duck Creek Solution extends our existing environment and gives us a strategic Platform to Web-enable future products. If we choose, we can also take advantage of its broad rating and policy processing capabilities.”

Eshelbrenner continued, “Duck Creek offered a quick-to-value alternative. We especially liked the Duck Creek approach of taking the time and effort to work through a Proof of Concept. This extra step made us extremely comfortable and confident that we were making the best decision.”

Wendy Corman, Duck Creek’s Business Development Officer, added “The Hastings Mutual initiative is an excellent example of how our solution can Web enable existing environments. Customers who buy our solution for an existing, tactical problem end up with a strategic Platform that will support future needs such as rating and policy processing — for any line of business. We learned a great deal about the Hastings operation and requirements as we worked with them through the Proof of Concept process. And, we look forward to our combined team effort through the implementation.”

About Hastings Mutual Insurance Company

Hastings Mutual Insurance Company is a regional property and casualty insurance carrier active in five midwestern states. With its home office in Hastings, Michigan, the company has been providing superior insurance protection to its policyholders since 1885. Hastings Mutual is currently represented by over 900 independent insurance agencies, and is rated A+ by A.M. Best. For more information, please visit www.hastingsmutual.com.

About Duck Creek

Duck Creek Technologies enables insurance carriers and other participants in the insurance distribution process to define and develop rating, underwriting, and policy processing services for any line of business and to deploy those services to the Web and to all other points on the product value chain. Duck Creek's EXAMPLE Platform supports all aspects of product definition, including data capture, rating, rules, interview screens, documentation, workflow, and transactions. Duck Creek's customers use the Platform for a wide variety of purposes, including full policy processing, submission processing, and black-box rating for both batch and interactive environments. The company was founded in January 2000, and is based in Bolivar, Missouri, with a branch office in Farmington, Connecticut.

For more information, visit http://www.duckcreektech.com or call 866-DUCK-TEC.

Contact:
Melinda Burnett
burnetme@duckcreektech.com
417-328-5339

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