PROGRESSIVE GROUP DRIVES INTO S.C.

March 21, 2005

Progressive Insurance’s Drive Group (Drive Insurance) will offer its commercial auto product in South Carolina through more than 430 agents. Drive(SM) Insurance is The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies’ new brand designed ex-pressly for independent agents and brokers. It is the third largest seller of commercial auto insurance countrywide.

Drive Insurance specializes in filling the commercial auto insurance needs of small businesses, but will insure up to 20 vehicles and offers limits up to $1 million. Progressive Claims Service is available to customers 24 hours a day, seven-days-a-week.