LONDON, 6 April 2009 – Aon, the UK’s leading insurance broker, is launching a free and impartial advisory service to SME businesses to ensure their insurance programmes are equipped for the risks of today’s economic climate. Aon’s Health Check will comprise an insurance audit followed by a written report of findings and recommendations.

The Aon Health Check provides businesses with the right tools to:
identify and effectively manage risk exposures that could have detrimental effects on the business;
ensure the insurance represents value in terms of premium spend;
protect the business with adequate sums insured and cover in face of today’s business risks. 

Gerry Callaghan, sales director of Aon’s SME team, said: “For many businesses, this is a time of preservation and protection of company assets. Over 100 SME businesses close down every day in the UK, some of which could have been saved by effective management of their internal and external risks. As such, riding out the storm is not an option. We have to do more than just react to the challenges affecting SME businesses so Aon is taking a proactive approach with the Health Check to help SME businesses analyse their insurance programmes. This way, we can help ensure they are adequately and accurately protected in the face of the challenging times ahead.”

“We are talking to a number of FTSE 500 organisations across various sectors who are interested in extending our consultative reviews as an added value benefit to their clients,” added Jesper Paul, affinity development manager for Aon’s SME team. “By ensuring their clients’ insurable risks are efficiently covered, they protect their own business as a result.”
 
The Aon Health Check is available for any SME business with turnover between £2 - £20 million. For more information or to book the free Aon Health Check, call 0800 028 8502.

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For more information contact:
Alexandra Lewis
020 7882 0541
Alexandra.lewis@aon.co.uk
http://aon.mediaroom.com

About Aon
Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 37,000 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 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. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007 and 2008, and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007 and 2008 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto www.aon.com

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