Cleveland, OH, September 27, 2006 - Hyatt Legal Plans has been recognized with the "Standard of Excellence" award for outstanding achievement in website development in the Legal category, in the 2006 WebAwards competition. The WebAwards, founded in 1997, is the annual award competition recognizing the individual and team achievements of web professionals who create and maintain corporate web sites.
According to the Web Marketing Association, WebAward 2006 entries were judged according to seven criteria: design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use.
"We take pride in maintaining a web site that is visually appealing, easy to use and informative for participants of our legal plan, sponsors of our legal plan and the public," said Bill Brooks, CEO of Hyatt Legal Plans. "It is an honor to be recognized by the Web Marketing Association for achieving those standards."
Hyatt Legal Plans´ web site, www.legalplans.com, serves various audiences, including employers, brokers and consultants, employees who are thinking about enrolling and enrolled employees who want to access their legal plan benefits. The web site offers extensive self-help features for legal plan members, including a participating attorney locator; an e-panel for sending a question via e-mail to a participating attorney anytime; explanations of covered services; free, downloadable legal documents; a Life Guide with helpful information for common life events; and an extensive section on identity theft prevention, including FAQs and helpful links.
Hyatt Legal Plans, Inc., a MetLife ® subsidiary, is the largest provider of group legal plans in the country, serving more than three million participants through a nationwide network of 4,400 law firms. For more information on Hyatt Legal Plans, visit www.legalplans.com. Group legal plans provided by Hyatt Legal Plans, Inc., Cleveland, OH. In certain states, plans are provided through insurance coverage underwritten by Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates, Warwick, RI.
MetLife, a subsidiary of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) is a leading provider of insurance and other financial services to millions of individual and institutional customers throughout the United States. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, MetLife, Inc. offers life insurance, annuities, automobile and homeowner's insurance and retail banking services to individuals, as well as group insurance, reinsurance and retirement and savings products and services to corporations and other institutions. Outside the U.S., the MetLife companies have direct insurance operations in Asia Pacific, Latin America and Europe. For more information, please visit www.metlife.com.
The WebAwards was founded by the Web Marketing Association in 1997 and is the standards-defining competition that sets industry benchmarks based on the seven criteria of a successful website. The goal of the WebAwards is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective websites on the Internet today. For more information, please visit www.webaward.org.