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News Release-- September 26, 2006
KENTUCKY LEAGUE OF CITIES LICENSES CSC’S LEGAL SOLUTIONS SUITE
Self-Insured Organization to Interface Legal Suite with CSC’s Claims Administration and Risk Management Information System
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 26 – Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) today announced that the Kentucky League of Cities has licensed CSC’s Legal Solutions Suite (LSS) to streamline and manage its collaboration with outside counsel. The Kentucky League of Cities, which includes almost 400 municipal governments, is the fifth self-insured organization to license LSS, marking a growing trend of self-insureds applying law-firm management to better control claims costs.
The Kentucky League will interface LSS with CSC’s RISKMASTER claims and risk management information system, which the organization has used since 1996. The League chose LSS to better track legal expenditures and law-firm performance across the state’s regions.
CSC’s Legal Solutions Suite, formerly known as LitigationAdvisor, is a Web-based enterprise application that improves financial results by streamlining and managing collaboration with outside counsel. LSS simplifies the billing process, tracks outside counsel performance and promotes best practices in managing legal matters. The software provides detailed data about charges, performance and outcomes that enable users to quickly evaluate patterns and trends among law firms and individual attorneys. LSS integrates with existing case, claims and accounting systems, such as CSC’s RISKMASTER system. In addition to standard reports, a business intelligence component within LSS also allows users to create customized reports from the system data.
“While the Legal Solutions Suite should save our claims adjusters time in evaluating the reasonableness of legal bills, we licensed the software primarily to compare results of litigation from region-to-region and firm-to-firm,” said Temple Juett, the Kentucky League of Cities’ general counsel. “That data can help us assign legal cases more effectively in the future.”
Juett will be the first attorney to sit on CSC’s Self-Insured Client Advisory Council, which helps set priorities for the strategic direction of CSC’s self-insured offerings.
“The Kentucky League of Cities’ long experience with CSC proves we can improve business results for self-insured organizations,” said Ray August, president of the P&C Insurance Division of CSC's Financial Services Group. “We also welcome Temple to the Advisory Council and know his legal and industry expertise will benefit product innovation.”
CSC’s RISKMASTER processes, manages and analyzes claims data for more than 10,000 users at 460 self-insured organizations, public entities and third-party administrators. RISKMASTER offers an integrated event-to-claims-management process, allowing companies to manage the life of a claim from first notice to final settlement. RISKMASTER’s business intelligence component uses Business Objects’ Web Intelligence to consolidate data from diverse sources and mine it for enhanced real-time and scheduled reporting.
About the Kentucky League of Cities
Founded in 1927, the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) is a membership organization of 380 cities across the Commonwealth. KLC provides a range of services to member municipalities that include insurance, employee benefits, risk management and loss control, legal services, financial services, legislative advocacy, policy development and research, technology, and education. For additional information about the Kentucky League of Cities, call the KLC office at 859.977.3700, 1.800.876.4552 or visit www.klc.org.
About CSC
Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global information technology (IT) services company. CSC’s mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.
With approximately 78,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC’s own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., CSC reported revenue of $14.6 billion for the 12 months ended June 30, 2006. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.csc.com.