Video Interview: Frank J. Coyne, Chairman, President and CEO of Verisk Analytics

NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veteran business journalist Joya Dass
joins Frank J. Coyne, chairman, president and CEO of Verisk Analytics (VRSK) to
discuss the company's industry, strategy, financials and positioning.

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Frank J. Coyne is chairman, president and CEO of Verisk Analytics. He joined the
company's ISO subsidiary in February 1999 as president and chief operating
officer. On July 1, 2000, he was elected president and chief executive officer,
and he became chairman two years later. In 2008, Mr. Coyne led the initiative
that created Verisk Analytics as the parent of ISO and its family of companies.

Mr. Coyne came to ISO from Kemper Insurance Companies, where he served as
executive vice president-specialty and risk management groups.

At ISO, Mr. Coyne launched an ambitious and successful business model based on
aggressively expanding new product sets and customer segments while enhancing
core competencies. His model has demonstrated ISO's capacity for creativity and
innovation in the development of new analytic solutions and improvements in the
predictive capabilities of decision-support tools. The model has succeeded not
only for the property/casualty insurance industry but also -- through more than
20 corporate acquisitions -- for adjacent verticals, including health services,
mortgage lending, government, and human resources. From 1999 through year-end
2008, ISO revenue increased more than 174 percent.

As chairman of ISO and Verisk, Mr. Coyne has played a leadership role in
property/casualty insurance, delivering numerous speeches at major industry
forums and writing many articles with performance-enhancing best-practices
themes and forceful calls for market discipline. Many chief executives around
the world have come to know Mr. Coyne through his extensive efforts to position
the company as a global enterprise.

Because of its strong financial performance, ISO has repeatedly been honored as
one of New Jersey's 50 finest companies by NJBIZ, a leading business news and
information organization, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. In 2006, under Mr.
Coyne's leadership, ISO took top honors and was named New Jersey's
fastest-growing company by NJBIZ.

In each year since 2003, Mr. Coyne has been named one of the 100 most powerful
people in the insurance industry by the Insurance Media Association. In 2005,
Mr. Coyne was honored by the Insurance Federation of New York with its Free
Enterprise Award. ISO ranked 37 among the top 200 privately held companies in
the greater New York area in 2008 in a survey by Crain's New York Business. In
2008 and 2009, ISO was named one of the fastest-growing private companies by
Inc. magazine, as part of its Inc. 5000 annual ranking.

Mr. Coyne serves on numerous professional and charitable boards.

Mr. Coyne began his career in 1973 as a trial attorney with the U.S. Treasury
Department. He joined Universal Underwriters Group in 1977 and served as vice
president as well as assistant general counsel. In 1981, he joined Reliance
Insurance Company and served as associate corporate general counsel and general
counsel for the insurance business. He became vice president and general counsel
of PMA Insurance Company in 1983.

Mr. Coyne joined General Accident Insurance in 1985 as senior vice president and
general counsel, with responsibility for legal, human resources, and
administrative functions. Two years later, he became executive vice
president-field operations, with responsibility for underwriting, claims, and
marketing activities involving General Accident's 28 branch offices. In 1991, he
was elected president and chief operating officer.

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mr. Coyne received his bachelor's degree in
political science, magna cum laude, from the University of Scranton and his law
degree from Duquesne University. He also had a distinguished career in the
United States Army, rising to the rank of captain.

About Verisk Analytics

Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK) is a leading provider of risk assessment
solutions to professionals in insurance, healthcare, mortgage lending,
government, risk management, and human resources. Using advanced technologies to
collect and analyze billions of records, Verisk Analytics draws on vast industry
expertise and unique proprietary data sets to provide predictive analytics and
decision-support solutions in fraud prevention, actuarial science, insurance
coverages, fire protection, catastrophe and weather risk, data management, and
many other fields. In the United States and around the world, Verisk Analytics
helps customers protect people, property, and financial assets.

For more information, see
http://www.verisk.com/About-Verisk/About/About-Verisk.html.

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