Selective Insurance Group, Inc. and Intranets.com launch a free, innovative Internet service that delivers communication and productivity tools to more than 900 independent agents and their small business customers.

BRANCHVILLE, N.J. & BOSTON, Nov 15, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:SIGI) and Intranets.com today announced the launch of a free, innovative Internet service that delivers communication and productivity tools to more than 900 independent agents and their small business customers.

Selective has teamed up with Intranets.com, the largest and fastest growing provider of Web-based intranets, to develop mySELECTnet.com, a Selective-branded application that offers a customizable Intranet communication solution to users.

mySELECTnet.com is the newest component of Selective's aggressive strategy to use technology to strengthen the Company's ability to meet the needs and expectations of agents and policyholders. "Rather than using the Internet to circumvent personal service, we have chosen to provide tools that enable our agents and their customers to better manage both their operations and their everyday lives," said Gregory E. Murphy, Selective's chairman, president and CEO. "mySELECTnet.com is a value-added service that reinforces Selective's commitment to providing superior customer service and strong franchise value to our agents." Selective, through mySELECTnet.com, is giving agents the opportunity to create a web presence for their agency as well as a sell-through feature for their customers. Each customized intranet site becomes a free, secure place on the Web that agents and their customers can use for email, document sharing and archiving, scheduling, and business related links -- and it takes just minutes to set up. In addition to information about insurance related topics, mySELECTnet.com will carry national, world, business, financial and other news; weather; business services; and online shopping options. Intranets.com will host each mySELECTnet.com site for free and provide at least 25 MB of space on their servers at no cost.

About Selective
Selective Insurance Group, Inc., headquartered in Branchville, New Jersey, is a holding company for five property/casualty insurance companies that offer primary and alternative market insurance for commercial and personal risks. Selective's insurance companies are rated A+ by both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor's Insurance Rating Services. The Company offers medical claim management services to insurance companies and other businesses through Alta Services, a managed care organization, and through Consumer Health Network (CHN), a medical provider network; human resource administration services and risk management products and services to business owners through Selective HR Solutions; flood insurance and claim adjusting services under the auspices of the National Flood Insurance Program through FloodConnect; and software development and processing services through PDA Software Services, Inc. For more information on Selective's insurance operations and diversified insurance services, visit the company's Web site at http://www.selective.com.

About Intranets.com
Intranets.com is the world's leading provider of on-demand collaboration services for small businesses or departments and groups inside large organizations. The company serves more than 350,000 users across 10,000 companies worldwide and offers a secure, web-based collaboration suite to share critical business information quickly and easily at any time from anywhere. Privately held and profitable, Intranets.com is led by an experienced team of software industry professionals who are committed to providing a secure, customizable, easy-to-deploy intranet solution supported by world-class customer service. Intranets.com is a PC Magazine "Editor's Choice" winner and is rated one of the world's "Top 25" leading service providers by ASPNews. The company has also been ranked by the Boston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing private companies in Massachusetts for two consecutive years. For more information or to take a FREE 30-day test drive, visit http://www.intranets.com/pr, e-mail corpsales@intranets.com or call 888-932-2600 or 781-565-6000.

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