runner-up prize in the annual Webbie awards scheme in the "professional sites'' category, defined as those serving industry professionals.

The scheme is operated by the publishers of reinsurance newsletter, Re Advisory News, and ranks nine groups of insurance-related web sites according to appearance, content and interactive capabilities.

The Bermuda insurance market's site is provided by the marketing committee of the Insurance Advisory Committee (IAC). It received compliments for its information content, including what the judges called an attractive newsletter, the electronic version of the Bermuda Insurance Update.

The site serves as a virtual gateway to the Bermuda insurance industry, providing information on the various sectors of the market.

The site was developed jointly by the IAC marketing committee and Internet technology specialists, the Microstate Corporation.

Work on re-design and translation into French German and Spanish is expected to be completed by the spring of 1998.

SITE SUCCESS -- Pictured are the IAC marketing committee's Roger Scotton (left) and Sheila Nicoll, with Microstate Corporation's Mitch Leventhal (second from left) and Joe Russell.