Latest Aon Headlines
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Former Aon Executive Named as CEO of N.Y.-Based Reinsurer Southport Re
May 2 2012 // New York-based reinsurance holding company Southport Re appointed Glenn Weber to the newly created position of chief executive officer. Southport Re is part of New York-based private equity firm Southport Lane. Glenn...
Aon Risk Solutions Appoints Resident Managing Director in Atlanta
May 1 2012 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, appointed John Jassmann to resident managing director in Atlanta. John Jassmann In his new role, Jassmann will lead and grow the operations in Georgia,...
Aon Risk Solutions Appoints Senior VP in Washington, D.C., Office
Apr 30 2012 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, recently hired industry veteran Kathy Jacobson as senior vice president for the Washington, D.C., office. Jacobson will provide errors and omissions...
Civil Unrest Leads Aon to Downgrade 37 Countries on Political Risk Map
Apr 25 2012 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, has just issued its latest political risk map, which gauges the level of risk for international business in more than 200 countries. Aon said “37...
Q1 Insurance-linked Securities at Record $1.49 Billion: Aon Benfield Study
Apr 23 2012 // Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield, has issued its latest report on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, which reviews the...
Aon Risk Solutions Launches $50 Million-Limit Wage & Hour Product
Apr 17 2012 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon, has launched of a wage and hour product to fill a void for organizations in the U.S. with 10,000+ employees. The policy provides coverage for defense and...
Aon Benfield Reports Reinsurers’ Capital Remains Strong Despite near Record 2011 Cat Losses
Apr 11 2012 // Aon Benfield’s latest edition of its Aon Benfield Aggregate (ABA) report, which analyzed the year end 2011 financial position of the world’s leading reinsurers and examines how 2011 catastrophe losses affected...
Aon Benfield March Cat Recap: Severe U.S. Weather, Quakes & Floods
Apr 6 2012 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp, has released the latest edition of its Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide...
Willis Japan Appoints Enomoto New Retail CEO
Apr 5 2012 // Willis Group Holdings has appointed Yoshihide ‘Dean’ Enomoto as President and CEO of its retail brokerage business in Japan. The announcement coincides with news that the global insurance broker has opened a...
Aon Completes Strategic Move to London
Apr 2 2012 // Aon announced that is now officially a “plc (public limited company; i.e. a corporation) and that it has completed its change of the corporate domicile of “the parent company of the Aon group of companies from...
Business Moves
Apr 2 2012 // Aon Aon Corp. stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal to approve the previously announced change in corporate domicile of the parent company of the Aon group of companies from Delaware to the United...
Aon Benfield, Build Assure Launch Latent Defects Product for Builders Federation
Mar 20 2012 // Build Assure, a trading name of the National Register of Warranted Builders, a subsidiary of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), has launched a new insurance product to protect its members and general developers...
Aon Shareholders Approve Domicile Move to London
Mar 19 2012 // Aon Corp. announced that its stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal to approve the previously announced change in corporate domicile of the parent company of the Aon group of companies from Delaware to...
Business Moves
Mar 19 2012 // Alleghany, Transatlantic Global specialty insurer Alleghany Corporation completed its previously announced acquisition of reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings. Both companies are headquartered in New York. With the...
Rajab Appointed Aon Benfield’s New CEO for Middle East, North Africa
Mar 12 2012 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp., announced that Ahmed Rajab, an executive with 15 years of experience in the reinsurance industry, will become CEO, Middle East & North...
Aon’s New ‘Political Risk Map’ Focuses on ‘Arab Spring’; Global Threats
Feb 8 2012 // Aon’s latest “Political Risk Map” focuses on the implications of the uprisings in the Middle East, collectively referred to as the “Arab Spring,” and the political transitions they have...
Aon Revenues Up 3% in Q4
Feb 6 2012 // Global insurance broker and risk management firm Aon Corp. reported that net income rose 19 percent in the fourth quarter 2011 to $277 million and overall revenues increased 3 percent to $3 billion. Fourth quarter...
Google Captive in Hawaii on Track
Feb 6 2012 // Web search giant Google Inc. has been granted tentative approval from the Department of Labor to form a captive insurance company in Hawaii to cover employee benefits for thousands of the Mountain View, Calif.-based web...
Aon Expands U.S. Tenant Rent Default Offerings
Feb 3 2012 // Aon has expanded availability to new states for its Aon Rent Protect product that reimburses landlords for lost income when tenants default on rent payments. The product was initially launched in California, Colorado,...
Aon’s Warriors Bring Military Values to Managing Global Risks
Jan 18 2012 // When the phone rings in the Crisis Management Operation Center within Aon Corp.’s headquarters in Chicago, it’s typically not someone calling with good news or to say, “Have a nice day.” Chances are...
