Nobilas Launches Innovative Accident Management Platform ‘Nobilas Connect’

Norcross, Ga., March 20, 2007 - Nobilas Claims & Fleet Solutions, an Akzo Nobel Business Unit, has launched an innovative new communication platform for the vehicle repair market. This IT platform connects all relevant parties in the vehicle accident management value chain. Through the Connect Communication Platform, Nobilas’ insurance company clients will benefit from instant availability of important data, enabling maximum process efficiency.

Following a successful pilot in Germany involving 2,500 claims, Nobilas Connect is being rolled out across Europe and North America, beginning with Germany and the U.K. Thomas Geiger, General Manager for Nobilas Germany, Austria and Switzerland, said, “Feedback from our German customers and body shops involved with the pilot has been very positive. We will continue to develop the system and add elements such as invoice processing. Nobilas Connect will be the ultimate platform for Repair Management, making this process easy and fast for all parties involved.”

The Nobilas Connect platform provides all parties involved in Accident Management with online access to the system. The communication center employee, body shop manager, adjuster/appraiser, and the Nobilas client all work from the same platform in real time with the latest information. The total Accident Management process can be initiated with one phone call: the first notice of loss when a driver damages his or her car. The online system improves the quality of claims handling significantly, and reduces the total repair cycle time as well.

With Nobilas Connect, which is integrated with Nobilas’ major IT applications, all information relevant to the repair - including customer and vehicle data, body shop data, photographs of the damage, the repair estimate, and actual start and end dates of the vehicle repair - are accessible from a single database.

According to Geoff Bullen, general manager for Nobilas International, “The development of the Nobilas Connect Communication Platform is fully in line with the Nobilas vision of creating transparent and efficient Accident Management processes for insurance companies. When Akzo Nobel started the company in 2003, we saw that the market was very fragmented and that there were many parties involved in the process.”

“In the Accident Management process, Nobilas acts like the conductor of a symphony orchestra, coordinating the activities of all the various players. Nobilas Connect is one of the tools that facilitate the realization of that vision. The tool allows us to minimize cycle times, offering our clients significant cost reductions for connectivity while maintaining high service levels,” added Bullen.

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Notes for Editors

Nobilas Claims & Fleet solutions, an Akzo Nobel company operating in Europe and North America, is a business-to-business Accident Management provider combining leading vehicle repair process management skills with first notification of loss, towing and rental solutions, repair estimating service, and claims management. Nobilas’ North American headquarters is located near Atlanta, Ga. and can be reached by phone at 1-866-NOBILAS.

Akzo Nobel, based in the Netherlands, serves customers throughout the world with healthcare products, coatings, and chemicals. Listed on both the Euronext and NASDAQ Stock Exchanges, the company is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. The Company currently employs some 62,000 people in more than 80 countries.

For more information about Nobilas, please visit: www.nobilas.com