News Release-- December 18, 2008

CSC SALUTES INSURERS AND SELF-INSURED FIRMS AT CONNECT 2008 CONFERENCE

Organizations Recognized for Leadership, Innovation and Contributions to Overall Client Community

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Dec. 18 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced that 14 insurers and self-insured organizations received awards for innovation and leadership in the areas of technology and quality enhancement. The company’s client community nominated and selected the winners, which were honored during CSC’s Connect 2008 Conference.

Nearly 1,000 property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry, risk management, and business and technology professionals attended the fall conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 2008 award winners include: Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, Chubb & Son, Chubb Services Corp., Cincinnati Insurance Company, Donegal Group, FBL Leasing, The Hartford, MetLife Auto & Home, Methodist Healthcare, PEMCO Insurance, Safety Insurance Company, Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance and State Auto Insurance Companies.

State Auto Insurance Companies, Columbus, Ohio, received The Connect Award, which singles out one organization for its outstanding innovation and collaboration across all five award categories: Industry Leadership, Innovation Community, Project Management Leadership, Quality Management Leadership and Technical Excellence. The company won this "best of show" honor for its leading role in agency relations and for deploying a state-of-the-art agency portal with a real-time interface to business applications.

"Working closely with CSC's technical experts, State Auto has embraced the 'extend, enhance and evolve' philosophy to effectively manage and grow our software assets," said Diane Griffin, assistant vice president, Business Insurance Services, State Auto. "Our involvement in CSC's Innovation Community program and interactions with other insurers at events such as CSC Connect have helped fuel our expansion into a total of 29 states in a remarkably short timeframe."

In addition, six firms received Well Connected Awards for accomplishments related to a particular CSC product area.  Those winners include:

• Accident Fund Insurance Company of America for Agency Link
• Cincinnati Insurance Company for Exceed
• MetLife Auto & Home for Claims and Legal Solutions Suite
• Chubb & Son for POINT IN
• State Auto for Series II
• Chubb Services Corporation for RISKMASTER

Southern Farm Bureau, Jackson, Miss., received CSC's Innovation Community Award, which recognizes the organization whose software enhancement project provided the most benefit for the entire user community. Honorable mentions were awarded to Accident Fund Insurance Company of America and Safety Insurance.

CSC presented the Industry Leadership Award to The Hartford, Southington, Conn., recognizing the firm for its innovative use of CSC's software products and services to solve a particular business need. Methodist Healthcare and FBL Leasing received honorable mentions in this category.

Chubb Services and MetLife Auto & Home received honorable mentions in Project Management Leadership for implementing best practices to achieve project deliverables in an innovative manner.

Companies receiving CSC's Technical Excellence Award for the best examples of systems engineering and architecture, systems integration or technology management in connection with a CSC solution include the category winner, Methodist Healthcare, Memphis, Tenn., as well as State Auto and Donegal Group, which both received honorable mentions.

Winners were also named in a new award category this year: Quality Management Leadership. PEMCO Insurance, Seattle, Wash., led the category for implementing quality management best practices. Southern Farm Bureau was awarded an honorable mention. 

"With one of the industry's largest and most active client communities, we take great pleasure in honoring this year's stand-outs, all of whom were selected by their peers,” said Ray August, president of CSC's Property and Casualty Division. "Award winners not only improved their operational results with CSC's software and services, they also demonstrated high degrees of innovation and cooperation with fellow members of our user community."

For more information on the 2008 awards and winners, visit http://www.csc-fs.com/connect/awards.asp.

About CSC
CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 91,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.3 billion for the 12 months ended Oct. 3, 2008. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.csc.com.

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