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The PMI Group, Inc. Affirms 2008 Paid Claims Guidance

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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (Map) - WALNUT CREEK, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI) (the "Company") today affirmed its paid claims guidance for 2008:

* Paid claims for its U.S. Mortgage Insurance Operations to be between $825 million to $975 million.

PMI's first quarter of 2008 financial results conference call is scheduled for May 12, 2008 at 12:00 PM ET. The conference call will be available by telephone or the Internet. On the Internet, the conference call webcast can be accessed at PMI's website: http://www.pmigroup.com/shareholders/ The dial- in number for the conference call is 888- 790-9746 (U.S.) or 1-210-234-7030 (International). The passcode "PMI" is required to access the call. For those individuals who cannot listen to the call live, there will be a replay of the webcast available at this site approximately two hours after the call ends, which will be posted for one month. A telephonic audio replay will be available approximately one hour after the call and can be accessed until June 12, 2008 by dialing 800-294-5428 or 203-369-3232 (International).

About The PMI Group, Inc.

The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI), headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, provides innovative credit, capital, and risk transfer solutions that expand homeownership and fund essential services for our customers and the communities they serve around the world. Through its wholly and partially owned subsidiaries, PMI offers residential mortgage insurance and credit enhancement products, financial guaranty insurance, and financial guaranty reinsurance. PMI has operations in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Asia, and Canada. For more information: www.pmigroup.com.

Cautionary Statement

Statements in this press release that are not historical facts, or that relate to future plans, events or performance are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include our expectation with respect to U.S. Mortgage Insurance Operations' paid claims in 2008. Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements by their nature involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. Many factors could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, national or regional recessions, and further deterioration in the housing, mortgage and related credit markets. In particular, declines in housing values and/or housing demand, deterioration of borrower credit, higher unemployment rates, changes in interest rates, higher levels of consumer credit, higher mortgage default and claim rates, lower cure rates, higher claim sizes, the aging of our mortgage insurance portfolios, adverse changes in liquidity in the capital markets, the inability of loans servicers to process higher volumes of delinquent loans, and the contraction of credit markets could negatively affect our US Mortgage Insurance Operations' paid claims. Other risks and uncertainties are discussed in our SEC filings, including our Annual Report Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. We undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements.

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