Latest Aon Headlines
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Aon Sees Catastrophes, Consolidation, Regulation in Asian Re Market
Oct 19 2010 // Aon Benfield launched a market update for the key Asia Pacific reinsurance hubs of Australia/New Zealand, Japan, Singapore and China at the recently concluded East Asian Insurance Congress (EAIC) in Bali. The announcement...
Ye Joins Aon Benfield China Team
Oct 18 2010 // Aon Benfield announced that it has appointed Helen Ye as executive director and head of catastrophe reinsurance in China. She will be responsible for “developing catastrophe reinsurance business by advising clients...
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Oct 18 2010 // Insurance broker Marsh has added five industry veterans – four from competing broker Aon – to its private equity and mergers and acquisitions practice. James O’Brien, Jason Hawkins and Craig Warnke join...
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Oct 18 2010 // Insurance broker Marsh has added five industry veterans – four from competing broker Aon – to its private equity and mergers and acquisitions practice. James O’Brien, Jason Hawkins and Craig Warnke join...
Aon to Cut 1,500 Jobs After Hewitt Merger
Oct 15 2010 // The insurance conglomerate Aon Corp. says it will cut 1,500 to 1,800 jobs over the next three years after acquiring Hewitt Associates. The Chicago company says the cuts and other restructuring will be complete at the end...
Aon: EU’s Environmental Liability Directive May Dominate Hungarian Spill
Oct 7 2010 // “The unfolding disaster in Hungary, in which toxic sludge escaped from a failed reservoir belonging to an industrial company, should serve as a warning to companies with industrial operations in Europe that the...
Aon’s Jenkins Appointed President of London Business Interruption Ass’n.
Oct 6 2010 // The London Business Interruption Association (LBIA) has elected Aon’s Diane Jenkins as president for 2010/11. The LBIA aims to advance knowledge on all matters relating to business interruption and runs a series of...
Schirmer Engineering Adopts Aon Name, Expands Global Reach
Oct 5 2010 // Schirmer Engineering has been rebranded Aon Fire Protection Engineering. Aon acquired the fire protection engineering, building code consulting, life safety and security consulting group in 2001. The firm currently has...
Ratings Roundup: United (Aon), Fairfax, Sirius
Oct 1 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a-” of Cayman Islands-based United Insurance Company and its subsidiary, United Re (Europe)...
Aon Report Finds ‘Confidence Returning’ for Airlines
Sep 24 2010 // “Confidence is returning to the airline industry with airlines predicting a 13 percent increase in passenger numbers in 2011,” according to Aon’s “Airline Insurance Market Indicators, 2010/11...
Aon Releases 2010 Food System, Agribusiness, Beverage Industry Report
Sep 22 2010 // The claims costs connected to the recent half billion egg recall will be unprecedented and include liabilities such as business interruption and reputation damage. During the next 15 months, the U.S. Food and Drug...
Marsh Expands M&A Practice
Sep 15 2010 // Insurance broker Marsh has added five industry veterans — four from competing broker Aon — to its private equity and mergers and acquisitions practice James O’Brien, Jason Hawkins and Craig Warnke join...
Aon Announces Leadership Team for Merger with Hewitt
Sep 13 2010 // Insurance broker Aon Corp. said it has finalized a five-year employment agreement with the head of Hewitt Associates, the benefits and human resources consulting giant it agreed to purchase earlier this year. Russell P....
Aon Benfield Appoints Van Slooten to Head International Research Team
Sep 9 2010 // Aon Benfield has appointed Mike Van Slooten as head of the International Research team, which monitors and analyzes reinsurers and market trends. He will be responsible for “organizing market security and research...
S&P Rates Aon’s Debt Issue ‘BBB+’
Sep 9 2010 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘BBB+’ senior debt rating to Aon Corp.’s three tranches of recently priced senior debt issues. S&P said it expects that Aon will use the...
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Sep 6 2010 // Aon Consulting has named Shelly Blackstone as vice president of business development in its Richmond, Virginia office. In her new role, Blackstone will develop new products and services clients in Central and Southern...
Aon Monthly Cat Recap Highlights Asia Floods, Atlantic Storms
Sep 3 2010 // Aon Benfield’s latest release of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which provides an analysis of global natural perils in August, reports the month was “dominated by historic floods in Pakistan destroying over 1.25...
Aon UK Warns Car Rental Companies on Upswing in ‘Crash for Cash’ Claims
Aug 26 2010 // A bulletin from Aon UK, notes that Britain’s Insurance Fraud Bureau “has claimed that “crash for cash” schemes, in which car accidents are staged in order to claim on another drivers’...
Aon Benfield Launches Monthly Insurance Linked Securities Index
Aug 20 2010 // Aon Benfield Securities, the securities and investment banking operation of Aon Benfield, announced the launch of the Aon Benfield ILS Indices, which provide a quantitative view of monthly insurance-linked securities (ILS)...
