State Auto Financial Corporation Selects the Learn.com LearnCenter Platform to Increase Employee Performance and Job Satisfaction

Learn.com®, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, announced today that the State Auto Insurance Companies, a super regional property and casualty insurance group with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, has selected the Learn.com LearnCenter® platform, to gain a competitive advantage by providing on-demand training to corporate employees.

Sunrise, FL (PRWEB) June 11, 2007 -- State Auto sells its products through approximately 3,300 agencies in 29 states. The company sells property and casualty policies through several subsidiaries, writing personal and commercial automobile, homeowners, commercial multi-peril, and workers' compensation insurance.

Before the LearnCenter platform, training involved almost completely manual, paper-based processes. The company desired to become a "learning organization" and was looking to build a foundation with a leading talent management system. State Auto is focused on performance management and envisions the LearnCenter platform as a tool to help the company build their skill gap analysis and competency testing across the organization for strategic advantage in a competitive marketplace.

"We've very much enjoyed our association with Learn.com. Obviously, the LearnCenter platform is an incredibly robust product. At the same time, it's only as good as the people behind it. That has been a strong point for Learn.com. I've appreciated the integrity with which their representatives speak, and the willingness to brainstorm solutions. In addition, our team has been very impressed with the high quality of the online training and the thoroughness of the project management. It's not every project that has folks becoming excited and generating new ideas during the implementation phase, but that has been the case for us," said Jim Dooley, Manager of Employee Training, of the State Auto Insurance Companies.

About the LearnCenter Platform
Built on Learn.com's award-winning Learning Management System (LMS) technology, the LearnCenter platform has grown into the industry's leading and most complete Talent Management Suite (TMS). The LearnCenter platform manages the entire pre-hire to retire lifecycle by creating a cost effective, high quality training, development and measurement environment designed to empower users with visibility into and control of their career planning while providing management with real-time business intelligence. Learning Management, Performance Management, Content Management, Online Authoring, Succession Planning, Collaboration, e-Commerce, Portal Authoring and more are included within one solution, with one interface and one partner - Learn.com.

About the State Auto Insurance Companies
The State Auto Insurance Companies, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, are engaged primarily in writing personal and business insurance products through approximately 3,300 agencies in 29 states. The State Auto Companies include State Auto Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:STFC), and State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company, which is one of only 14 companies rated A+ (Superior) by the A.M. Best Company every year since at least 1954. STFC is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, which represents the top third of all NASDAQ-listed companies, and is one of just three percent of publicly-listed companies to earn the 2006 Mergent Dividend Achiever Award for having increased its dividends ten or more years in succession. State Auto is proud to be a Trusted Choice® company partner. More information is available online at StateAuto.com.

About Learn.com
Learn.com® is the worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity with more than 50 million end users around the globe. Our broad suite of on-demand solutions can fully automate the pre-hire to retire lifecycle within any organization. Learn.com's unwavering commitment to understanding client needs, goals and objectives allows us to partner with our clients to increase business performance. The Learn.com family of solutions includes the award-winning LearnCenter® talent management suite, the WebRoom™ Web conferencing suite, the CourseMaker Studio® Authoring Tool, Mentor® EPSS and the 1,000 title Learn2® online course library. For more information please visit www.learn.com or call 954-233-4000

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