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New GEICO App takes everything you love about GEICO and makes it mobile

"Based on customer feedback, we took all of our customer's favorite things about GEICO and put them into a mobile app," says Steve Smith, GEICO assistant vice president for information technology. "The new GEICO App enhances our mobile capabilities and provides our current and potential customers with the ability to complete a multitude of functions using their mobile device."

All users with a smartphone mobile device will be able to:

• Download digital insurance cards that can be viewed and saved to their device
• Access a step-by-step interactive accident checklist with necessary information needed to file a claim
• Customize the GEICO app with one of their favorite GEICO characters

The GEICO App is free to users and is now available for Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry platforms. The GEICO App joins an expanding list of apps released in 2011 including the GEICO Shortcuts (Facebook) app, GEICO Guinea Pig Getaway app, the GEICO BroStache app and the Caveman Photo Crasher app.

To view a commercial featuring the GEICO App, click on http://youtu.be/0ZmqDKmpzIo or to experience GEICO.com's latest innovation, visit http://www.geico.com/about/mobile-apps.

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and is the third-largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States. The company is celebrating its 75^th anniversary this year. GEICO handles auto insurance coverage for 10 million private passenger auto policies and insures more than 17 million vehicles.

In addition to auto insurance, GEICO offers customers insurance products for their motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), travel trailers and motorhomes (RVs). Coverage for life, boats, homes and apartments is available through the GEICO Insurance Agency. Commercial auto insurance and personal umbrella protection are also available.

As a member of the Berkshire Hathaway group of companies, GEICO is rated A++ for financial strength by A.M. Best Company and ranks at the top of several national customer satisfaction surveys. For more information, go to http://www.geico.com.

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