Paragon Strategic Solutions Joins Inpoint to Form Inpoint Services

CHICAGO, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Corporation today announced the integration of Paragon Strategic Solutions into Inpoint, an Aon company recently formed to help insurance carriers improve their performance. Paragon, previously an Aon Benfield company, leverages proprietary techniques to help carriers achieve operational efficiencies, accelerate recovery rates and improve financial performance.

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"Inpoint distinguishes itself by combining an unparalleled depth of talent with proprietary, real-time industry data, while Paragon has become synonymous with specialized operational solutions," said Michael R. Moran, a managing partner of Inpoint. "The existing symmetry between Inpoint and Paragon makes the coming together of these two businesses a natural and complementary fit."

Jesper Groenvold, previously CEO of Paragon and now a managing partner of Inpoint, stated, "With the combination of Inpoint and Paragon, our clients will be allowed to focus on the core strategic issues affecting their business."

As a result of this union, Paragon Strategic Solutions will now be known as Inpoint Services.

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About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008 and 2009 Insurance Survey, Aon also ranked highest on Business Insurance's listing of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues in 2008 and 2009. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007, 2008 and 2009 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log on to http://www.aon.com.

About Inpoint

Inpoint is based on the simple belief that a dedicated team of insurance professionals utilizing a large and unique set of industry facts can deliver more value to insurance companies than any other firm. An Aon company, Inpoint not only has an unmatched team of "from the industry" professionals, but also access to proprietary industry data based on more than $90 billion of annual premium flow. This translates to advice based on real-time factual information as opposed to theory. The company serves clients from offices in Chicago, New York, Minneapolis, Dallas, Pittsburgh, London, Dublin and Sydney with access to resources from Aon's global network of more than 500 offices in 120 countries. For more information on Inpoint, visit http://www.inpoint.com/.

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