NCCI Elects Long, Rivera to 2002-2003 Board of Directors

Business Wire, May 10, 2002

Business Editors

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2002

David H. Long of Liberty Mutual Insurance and Susan Rivera of

ACE INA Holdings Elected to NCCI Board of Directors

During Annual Meeting

The membership of NCCI Holdings, Inc., today elected David H. Long and Susan Rivera to the company's 2002-2003 board of directors. Twelve additional directors were re-elected to the NCCI board.

Ms. Rivera is the president of ACE INA Holdings, Inc., and is responsible for all aspects of ACE INA's U.S.-based commercial retail insurance operations. Additionally, she has day-to-day responsibility for numerous holding company functions within ACE INA.

Prior to joining ACE INA, Ms. Rivera held senior leadership positions in AIG's Management Liability and Risk Finance divisions before being appointed president of American Home Assurance Company, a subsidiary of AIG, in 1999. She first joined AIG in 1987 in its actuarial group.

Mr. Long is the chief operating officer for national markets at Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, with full profit and loss responsibility for the LMG business unit focused on workers compensation, general liability, and automobile liability service and risk transfer needs for the Fortune 5000.

In his more than fifteen years with Liberty Mutual, Mr. Long has held several senior leadership positions, including: senior vice president and manager, National Market Underwriting; vice president and managing director, Commercial Insurance Holdings; and vice president and regional underwriting manager, National Market Underwriting.

NCCI board nominations and elections were conducted during the annual meeting portion of the company's two-day Annual Issues Symposium in Orlando, FL.

The full 2002-2003 NCCI Holdings, Inc. board of directors includes:

-- Richard F. Russell (Chair), President and Chief Executive Officer, Amerisure
Companies

-- Marita Zuraitis (Vice Chair), Executive Vice President, U.S. Insurance
Operations, The St. Paul Companies

-- Judith A. Blades, Senior Executive Vice President, Hartford Financial
Services Group

-- Sandra Austin Crayton

-- Joseph A. Edwards, Esquire, Insurance Industry Consultant

-- Roxani M. Gillespie, Partner, Barger and Wolen, LLP

-- Stephen W. Lilienthal, Executive Vice President, Property and Casualty
Operations, CNA

-- John Pasqualetto, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kemper Employers
Group, Inc.

-- Richard L. Thomas, Senior Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer,
American International Group, Inc.

-- Kermit C. Smith, President and Chief Operating Officer, Atlantic Mutual
Insurance Company

-- Thomas P. Staudt, Chief Executive Officer, BenefitPort

-- Lane Summerhays, President and Chief Executive Officer, Workers Compensation
Fund

-- David H. Long, Chief Operating Officer - National Markets, Liberty Mutual
Group

-- Susan M. Rivera, President, ACE INA Holdings, Inc.

-- Chapin Clark, President and CEO, NCCI Holdings, Inc.

"We are very pleased to add Susan Rivera and David Long to NCCI's highly capable and experienced board of directors, and we look forward to working with the entire board to meet our business goals for the remainder of 2002 and into 2003," said NCCI President and CEO Chapin Clark. "In the coming months, we expect to work closely with the board to address the very difficult condition of the workers compensation industry, and to doing our part to put the industry back on a healthy and progressive track."

For more information on NCCI's board of directors or on the Annual Issues Symposium, please contact Media Relations Manager Greg Quinn at 561-213-8433, or visit ncci.com.

NCCI Holdings, Inc., a shared-services organization serving the workers compensation industry, offers a comprehensive array of products and services that enable insurers and other stakeholders to access and use workers compensation data to establish accurate loss costs, calculate experience rating modifications, manage residual market mechanisms, and reduce overall costs. For more information on NCCI, please visit us at ncci.com or call 1-800-NCCI-1-2-3.