Gary Schneider

Contact: Gary Schneider800-669-2247, ext. 270

Great American® Alliance Forges New Standard

WINCHESTER, VA: In a move specifically designed to enhance recruitment quality thereby reducing both internal and external liability, a strategic alliance between American Background and the Great American Insurance Companies Fidelity/Crime Department foretells a new standard of recruitment practice.Great American Fidelity/Crime Department is now offering high quality pre-employment screening available through their website http://www.crimeinsurance.com/.This service is added to their suite of Crime Insurance products for all industries."We recommend these vital services to all out clientele," commented Great American's Sean Missal, "in the hopes of securing our clientele higher quality recruits while lowering claims related to employee theft."

Known for a holistic business crime risk solution approach, American Background offers comprehensive employment screening services, measured results, electronic facilitation, and consultative expertise.
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"The Great American program offers a real value-add to their clientele," according to Gary Schneider, American Background's Marketing VP, "it raises the bar in relation to the insure/insurer relationship."

For more information regarding this exciting new program, contact Great American's Sean Missal at 860-285-0128.Or visit http://www.crimeinsurance.com/ for information.

"The events of Sept. 11 have raised the awareness of where a person you work with is from," says Gary Schneider, executive vice president with American Background Information Services, based in Winchester, Va.

Even before the terrorist attacks, American businesses were increasingly ordering background verifications for foreign employees coming to work in their U.S. locations.
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"Due to the lack of computerization, the lack of good record-keeping, cultural differences and privacy issues, it is almost impossible for U.S.-based companies, using their own employees, to conduct these verifications--especially criminal background verifications--with any kind of economic efficiency," says Schneider."You have to find people in these countries you can trust who will hunt down where these records might be."

In addition to privacy laws and computerization limitations, the paucity of centralized court systems or centralized record-keeping agencies in some foreign countries frequently poses other difficulties to companies conducting their own verifications.