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Allegient Systems Selected and Implemented by Southern Pioneer Property & Casualty for Legal Bill Review

Allegient's Legal Expense and Reporting Management now in production to enable insurer’s improved legal bill review process, reduced claim litigation expenses, and more informed business decisions

Wilton, CT, July 8, 2010 - Allegient Systems today announced that it has been selected by and is now in production with Southern Pioneer Property & Casualty Insurance Company to provide legal bill review and performance management services.

Allegient's technology driven Expense and Reporting Management Suite combined with its legal and insurance claims expertise enables Southern Pioneer to modernize the legal bill review process and reduce claim litigation expenses, while providing the data and reporting capabilities to enable the most informed business decisions for continuous improvement.

Commenting on the selection of Allegient Systems, Robert Shaughnessy, Southern Pioneer’s vice president of claims, said, "Allegient Systems is well known in the insurance industry for setting the standard in legal expense and performance management. We were impressed with their ability to tailor a program specifically to our needs and provide the time and support to ensure our success. Our teams worked well together through the implementation and we have already successfully moved into a production environment."

Wayne Nykyforchyn, President of Allegient added, "We thank Southern Pioneer for choosing Allegient Systems for their claim litigation management and legal bill review needs. We have long prided ourselves on our flexibility to meet each client's unique needs. We look forward to continuing our work with the Southern Pioneer team to ensure they derive maximum value from the Allegient solution and services."

About Southern Pioneer Property & Casualty Insurance Company

Southern Pioneer Property & Casualty Insurance Company was chartered in 1981 in Arkansas and is now licensed in Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee; they provide specialty insurance products and services to meet customers' needs. Southern Pioneer’s primary products are collateral protection insurance, garage liability insurance, and homeowners and dwelling fire insurance.

Southern Pioneer has been assigned a rating of B++ from A.M. Best Company.

For additional information call 800.382.3011 or visit www.southernpioneer.com

About Allegient Systems

For 21 years Allegient Systems has been both pioneer and leader in providing legal expense and performance management systems and services that maximize the potential and the profitability of professional legal service relationships between law firms and corporate law departments or claims organizations. www.allegientsystems.com

Today, Allegient’s web based offerings include bill review capabilities for legal expenses as well as those of independent adjusters. Allegient delivers collaboration, efficiency and productivity to the bill review processes by using electronic invoicing, online bill review, budgeting, workflow management and a sophisticated rules engine. Allegient’s Business Intelligence capabilities allow users to access, analyze and share data for the purpose of improving legal and independent adjuster expense, performance and outcome.

Allegient is headquartered in Wilton, CT and has sales and support facilities in Chicago, IL Mount Holly, NJ and Toronto, ON.