eAutoclaims.com(TM) Launches Body Shop Network 'Member Benefits' Program
13 September 2000
eAutoclaims.com(TM) Launches Body Shop Network 'Member Benefits' ProgramAll Members to Receive Free Web Sites and Group Rate Discounts PALM HARBOR, Fla., Sept. 13 eAutoclaims.com (TM) (OTC Bulletin Board: EACC), launched its new "Member Benefits" program. The company has built a nationwide network of 1000s of professional body shops that combine claims services and the buying power of insurance companies to receive volume discounts for the carriers, and preferred service guarantees for the insurance consumer. eAutoclaims.com is a pioneer and business-to-business solution for the insurance claims industry. The company is providing its digital shops free web sites and hosting. A digital shop is a shop equipped with Internet access and a digital camera. To be part of the eAutoclaims.com network, a body shop must meet certain quality requirements and be field inspected before given a permanent network member status. Eric Seidel, President and CEO commented, "This fits with our philosophy of 'Connecting the dots' in the dot-com world. The company has been successful in providing insurance companies Internet claims management applications and now is moving to accelerate the number of body shops online. Assisting the quality shops on our network only makes sense, it is good for our insurance clients and the insurance consumer by closing a claim at Internet speed." In addition, eAutoclaims has implemented a program that combines its network shop's buying power for volume discounts on an array of product and services. The company's goal is to make it easier for shops to reduce operating expenses on both eAutoclaims (and non-client) claims. About eAutoclaims.com: eAutoclaims.com(TM) Inc. is a pioneering business-to-business e-commerce company that utilizes the Internet to streamline and lower the overall cost of automotive repair paid by insurance companies and on corporately owed fleet vehicles. The company is creating a new online digital automotive maintenance organization industry within the $123 billion market of the auto collision claim industry. eAutoclaims.com(TM) Inc is establishing itself as the pre-eminent Application Service Provider for the automobile insurance industry, providing seamless back-end infrastructures that link thousands of collision repair shops and/or glass repair facilities into a network. The company offers a cost effective and highly advanced "Bricks to Clicks(TM)" Internet Claims System for the processing and ultimate repair of damaged vehicles filed as insured auto claims and by self-insured fleets. eAutoclaims.com(TM) Inc. generates revenue from administrative fees and discounts earned by processing collision & glass work through its system. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These and other important factors, including those mentioned in various filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made periodically by the Company (available to the public at http://www.sec.gov), may cause the actual results and performance to differ materially from the future results expressed in or implied by such forward looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof and the Company disclaims any obligation to provide public updates, revisions or amendments to any forward-looking statements made herein to reflect changes in the Company's expectations or future events. For Further Information: John Liviakis, Liviakis Financial Communications, Inc 415-389-4670 / 415-389-4694 fax / moreinfo@lfcnet.com Email