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Insurance Auto Auctions Appoints Christine J. Atkins

26 April 1999

Insurance Auto Auctions Appoints Christine J. Atkins Vice President, Information Technology, Chief Information Officer

    SCHAUMBURG, Ill., April 26 -- Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc.
announced today that Christine J. Atkins has joined the company
to fill the position of Vice President, Information Technology, Chief
Information Officer.  Atkins, a 25-year veteran of the information services
industry, will be responsible for the development and implementation of
systems and technology at Insurance Auto Auctions.  Her appointment is
effective May 10, 1999, and she will report directly to Christopher G.
Knowles, chief executive officer.
    Prior to joining Insurance Auto Auctions, Atkins spent over 25 years in
the information services industry culminating in a number of key management
positions.  Most recently, she served as Chief Information Officer of
Administrative Management Group, where she was responsible for restructuring
the company's IT organization and assesessing and consolidating the company's
IT infrastructure.  From 1993 to 1998, she served as Manager of Applications
Development of Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., where she led a major
three-year project to replace all legacy business applications to a
client/server platform, and where she co-invented a patent-pending rights
management design.  Prior to that, Atkins held a number of successively more
responsible positions in applications management, software marketing and
sales, and engineering analysis.
    Chris Knowles, chief executive officer, commented, "We are very pleased
and excited to have Christine join us.  She brings a unique skill set to IAA
which complements the depth and experience of our current senior management
team.  Christine's extensive knowledge and experience in the information
services industry will be a tremendous asset to IAA's future growth."
    "Christine's immediate focus will be to apply her years of hands-on
experience by accelerating our growth of electronic commerce products and
services.  This includes the expansion of our current Internet auction
capabilities as well as broadening IAA's range of business activities through
our Internet strategy.  I look forward to working with Christine, not only in
capitalizing on a wide range of strategic growth opportunities, but in
continuing to build IAA's rapidly growing e-commerce salvage services,"
concluded Knowles.
    Founded in 1982, Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. is the largest provider of
automotive and specialty salvage services in the United States, providing
insurance companies with cost-effective, turnkey solutions to process and sell
total-loss and recovered-theft vehicles, a $3 billion per year industry.  The
company currently has 50 auction sites across the United States.
    This press release contains forward-looking information that is subject to
certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those projected, expressed or implied by such forward-looking
information.  The company's actual results could differ materially from those
discussed or implied herein.  Factors that could cause or contribute to such
differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the company's
annual report, Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1998, or
subsequent quarterly reports.  Among these risks are legislative acts, weather
conditions, changes in the market value of salvage, outcome of litigation,
competition, quality and quantity of inventory available from suppliers and
dependence on key insurance company suppliers.
    Additional information about Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. is available on
the World Wide Web at http://www.iaai.com.