GEICO Opens New Jersey Claims Center in Marlton, NJ

                  Media is Invited to Attend This Event

                          Tuesday, April 5, 2005
                                10:30 a.m.
                         8000 Lincoln Drive East
                               Marlton, NJ

GEICO will officially announce the opening of its New Jersey Claims Center at 8000 Lincoln Drive East in Marlton, New Jersey at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, April 5, at 10:30 a.m.

  Honored guests participating in the program will include:

      * Tony Nicely, GEICO President & CEO
      * The Honorable Virginia Bauer, New Jersey Secretary of Commerce
      * The Honorable Donald Bryan, Acting Commissioner of the New Jersey
        Department of Banking and Insurance
      * The Honorable Augustus Tamburro, Mayor of the Township of Evesham
      * Gerard Sweeney, Brandywine Realty Trust President & CEO

The GEICO New Jersey Claims Center will better serve the company's growing number of policyholders in the state.

PRNewswire -- April 1