LOMA Launches New Online Learning Solution

ATLANTA, GEORGIA—November 14, 2005—LOMA, the leading trade association to the insurance and financial services industry, today announced the launch of LOMALearn Online— LOMA’s growing e-Learning portal for individual and corporate learning. Powered by WBT System's award-winning TopClass e-Learning Suite TM, the site has been redesigned to provide greater functionality and expanded course offerings. LOMA will use the new TopClass system to manage and deliver content, training, and certification to its 1,200 member companies and other customers in more than 80 countries. The new system will power not only LOMA’s standard online learning offerings, but will also allow LOMA to provide its members and customers with privately branded online learning sites through an application service provider model.

“We are really excited about the new LOMALearn Online”, stated Dennis Goodwin, FLMI, ACS, second vice president, e-Learning. “LOMA is the world’s largest provider of education and training to the global insurance and financial services sector. Each year, employees in organizations throughout the world enroll for more than 90,000 LOMA examinations covering insurance and financial services topics. Until now most of this training has been provided through self-study textbooks. TopClass will allow us to leverage our learning development expertise to redeploy our extensive library of award-winning insurance and financial services content in a variety of formats and product offerings previously unavailable to our customers. It will allow LOMA customers to choose topics to meet specific learning needs and to add their own content to create co-branded courses and programs.”

In addition to the increased functionality and customization made possible through the new system, LOMALearn is also introducing online versions of LOMA designation courses. LOMA 290—Insurance Company Operations is available now. The online version of LOMA 280—Principles of Insurance: Life, Health, and Annuities will be available in December 2005.

To experience the new LOMALearn Online and access its complete catalog of courses, visit www.lomalearn.org.