LexisNexis to Distribute Miller’s
Standard Insurance Policies Annotated |
DAYTON, OH and HARTFORD, CT –
LexisNexis™ U.S., the leading provider of legal, news
and business information services, today announced it has
entered into an agreement with Legal Research Systems Inc.
to be the online distributor of Miller’s Standard Insurance
Policies Annotated®.
The agreement allows LexisNexis worldwide
license to provide Miller’s through the LexisNexis Total
Research System program (at www.lexisnexis.com), a comprehensive
service that includes products covering legal, news, business
and public records information.
“Our alliance with Miller’s
will result in a tremendous time savings for customers by
allowing them to link to key insurance policy annotations
directly from the LexisNexis service,” said Leigh Sempeles,
vice president and managing director, large law firm markets.
“We are proud to be the only online legal information
provider to distribute the policy forms and the policy annotations
to worldwide customers on our service.”
Miller’s has the only collection of
Standard Insurance Policies fully annotated, providing more
than 90,000 current annotations to more than 600 policies
and endorsements, listed section by section and arranged alphabetically
by jurisdiction.
"At last, 25 years of insurance
policy annotations will be available on-line," said Susan
J. Miller, president of Legal Research Systems, Inc. "This
is great news for legal practitioners who need case annotations
to important coverage provisions at their fingertips."
The policies annotated in Miller’s
have been prepared on an advisory basis by Insurance Services
Office, Inc. for more than 1,500 property and casualty insurance
companies. Miller’s serves legal professionals, insurers,
reinsurers, agents, brokers, self-insureds, risk managers,
as well as courts, insurance regulators and other government
agencies.
"The integration of Miller's with
other LexisNexis offerings will create a new gold standard
for productivity," said Philip Lefebvre, vice president
of Legal Research Systems, Inc., the closely held company
that owns and publishes Miller's. "Anyone doing insurance-related
legal research will be able to leverage Miller's exhaustive
annotations with other LexisNexis resources for unparalleled
efficiency and effectiveness."
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis™ is a global leader in comprehensive and
authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored
applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE: ENL;
NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business
in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition
to its flagship Web-based research service, LexisNexis, the
company includes some of the world’s most respected
legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender,
Butterworths, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur, Abeledo-Perrot
and Orac.
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