Assurant Group Signs Major Contract With driversshield.com; Marketer Will Offer Auto Membership Program Through Credit Union Channels

    PLAINVIEW, N.Y., March 28 driversshield.com Corp. said today that it has entered into a
multi-year contract with Assurant Group that is expected to increase revenue
from memberships in the driversshield.com Auto Discounts and Services Program
(ADS) by fivefold over the next 36 months.  Assurant will market the Company's
industry-leading program to credit union members nationwide through Internet
web sites, direct mail and telemarketing.  The marketing campaign will start
in the Spring.
    Headquartered in Atlanta and Miami, Assurant is a leading affinity
marketer of specialty insurance, extended service contracts and membership
programs through financial institutions, retailers, manufactured housing and
automobile dealers and utilities.  Assurant is part of the international
Fortis Group, which operates in the fields of insurance, banking and
investments.
    "We are extremely pleased that Assurant is expanding its previous
relationship with us, and we anticipate major growth in revenue on the basis
of this contract," said B. J. Spiegel, president of the driversshield.com ADS
subsidiary.  "Additionally, the Assurant campaign will significantly increase
the driversshield.com membership enrollment, now nearly at one million
households."
    "Based upon our continuing relationship with driversshield.com, we have
found that this auto membership program is the market leader in terms of its
real value and usefulness to consumers," said Claude Borrelli, senior vice
president for Assurant's credit union business channel.  "We're confident this
effort will generate significant revenue in the months ahead."
    The driversshield.com Auto Discount and Services Program provides
consumers with deep discounts on a variety of automotive related products and
services, many of which are exclusive to this program.  Services are
obtainable through the Company's web site, http://www.driversshield.com, which
connects the driver to nearly 10,000 facilities across the nation.
Appointments for services are made directly off the web site by members of the
Program.  The Program is also used by companies to build customer loyalty.
    Assurant Group was created in August 1999 when Fortis, Inc. acquired
American Bankers Insurance Group, based in Miami, Florida, and merged it with
member companies of the Fortis-owned American Security Group companies, based
in Atlanta, Georgia.  Assurant companies have more than 110 years of combined
experience in the specialty insurance industry, operating in the United
States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Denmark, Ireland and the United
Kingdom.  Fortis, Inc., with $22 billion in assets, is part of the
international Fortis Group, with assets of more than $400 billion.  Fortis'
listed companies are Fortis (B) of Belgium and Fortis (NL) of the Netherlands.
    Since its founding in 1983, driversshield.com Corp. has built a national
reputation for efficient, cost-saving management of collision claims for
self-insured corporate and municipal vehicle fleets.  Clients include The
Coca-Cola Company, Time Warner, IBM, Hershey Foods and many other prominent
corporations.  The Company is known for the quality of its auto membership
programs and has built a customer base with well-known organizations such as
Providian Financial, Protective Life, Priceline.com and other prestigious
credit card, financial institutions and web sites.

    Assurant Group is a service mark of Fortis, Inc.

    This announcement contains "forward looking statements."  Words
"anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect" and other similar expressions as
they relate to the Company and its management are intended to identify such
forward looking statements.  Although the Company and its management believe
that the statements contained in this announcement are reasonable, it can give
no assurances that such statements will prove correct.  Factors that could
affect the occurrence of events or results discussed herein are included with
those mentioned in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.