Aon eSolutions, the technology solutions business of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON), today announced that OptaComp has selected iVOS as its complete claims administration system. OptaComp is a single-source solution for comprehensive workers' compensation management and a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida.

Aon eSolutions’ iVOS system offers insurance companies a wide array of capabilities, including claims management, policy administration and billing. With its modern platform and service-oriented architecture, iVOS enables carriers to deliver more capabilities faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.

“At OptaComp, we were in need of a system that provided us with both flexibility and business agility,” said Bob Stolp, director of information technology at OptaComp. “We needed a system that was highly intuitive and had a configurable web-based user interface. Our goal is to create a host of business rules which will allow us to optimize cost savings, operational efficiency and best practices for the benefit of our clients.” 

As a Florida-based workers' compensation management organization, OptaComp serves both fully insured and self-insured businesses. iVOS will enable OptaComp to support its many clients who have unique and specific workers’ compensation processes and workflow configurations.

“OptaComp has introduced a game-changing business model to drive optimal workers’ compensation outcomes in terms of both human and financial terms,” said Kathy Burns, CEO of Aon eSolutions. “With iVOS, OptaComp gains an equally advanced technology platform with built-in insurance intelligence, embodying both industry knowledge and proven best practices.”

About OptaComp

Comp Options Insurance Company, Inc., dba OptaComp, a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, has successfully provided workers’ compensation products and administrative services to Florida employers for more than 12 years. Throughout the past decade, OptaComp has demonstrated unprecedented success in workers’ compensation program management, addressing the changing marketplace and needs of Florida’s large employer market. Its criteria and principle-based workers’ compensation model consistently drives immediate and long-term positive human and financial results.

About Aon eSolutions

Aon eSolutions is the technology solutions business of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON) and provides award-winning technology-based tools that improve the management of risk, insurance and safety programs. These personalized and configurable best-in-class systems — AonLine, iVOS, RiskConsole and SafetyLogic — each provide measurable value by aggregating data, streamlining business processes and optimizing resources. Visit www.aon-esolutions.com for more information.

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.