Latest Aon Headlines
All the headlines from our Aon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aon Helps Lenders With Foreclosed Property Through Risk Management
Jun 9 2010 // Property repossessed by a financial institution after foreclosure may stay vacant or unfinished for months or years, making it susceptible to various types of damage. According to RealtyTrac, the leading online marketplace...
Aon eSolutions, Aon Global Risk Launch Public Entity Claims Tool
Jun 8 2010 // Aon eSolutions, the technology solutions business of Aon Corporation and Aon Global Risk Consulting will offer public entities a holistic claims tool that combines browser-based claims technology with claims consulting...
Aon Scientist Analyzes Insurance Coverage for Volcanic Eruptions
Jun 4 2010 // Volcanic eruptions are right up there with hurricanes and earthquakes on the list of nature’s most formidable catastrophes. The April eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland was but one manifestation...
Why Some Volcanic Eruptions Produce Ash Clouds and Others Don’t
Jun 4 2010 // Volcanoes exist in many parts of the world, and their eruptions can be terrifying and devastating, as Aon Benfield’s Professor Russell Blong discusses in the previous article at:...
Aon Sees Progress Against Terrorism, But Threats are Evolving
Jun 3 2010 // In conjunction with the release of the latest version of its “Terrorism Threat Map,” Aon’s Crisis Management division analyzes the current state of the ongoing efforts to combat terrorist activities. The...
Aon Begins 4-Year Term as Official Manchester United Shirt Sponsor
Jun 1 2010 // It’s been almost a year to the day, when Aon Corporation announced that it would take over from AIG, as the shirt sponsor for the historic English football (soccer) club Manchester United [See IJ web site –...
Aon: P/C Insurance Rates Decrease, Capacity Continues to Increase
May 27 2010 // Property rates will continue to drop 5 percent to 15 percent for most risks, despite record global catastrophic losses seen in early 2010, according to Aon Corp.’s 2010 U.S. Insurance Market Overview. Property...
Tropical Storm Risk Forecasts Active 2010 Hurricane Season
May 25 2010 // Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) provides “real-time mapping and prediction of tropical cyclone wind fields worldwide.” The firm is co-sponsored by Aon Benfield, with RSA and Crawford & Company. It has just...
Aon Benfield Broadens Academic, Industry Research Collaboration
May 20 2010 // Aon Benfield announced that it is “broadening its capabilities and bringing together its academic and industry research relationships under one banner – Aon Benfield Research.” Aon said the team will...
Aon Launches Insurance Policy for Space Investors
May 18 2010 // Aon’s International Space Brokers has launched Investment Protection Insurance (IPI) for space investors.Aon says IPI is the first policy strictly for investors, and is designed to cover the loss of an investment in...
Aon Consulting Appoints Chaudhari, Connell to Global Leadership Posts
May 4 2010 // Aon Consulting, the human capital consulting business of Aon Corporation, announced two new appointments to its global leadership team. Aon named Piyush Chaudhari to the position of CEO of Aon Consulting EMEA [Europe,...
Aon Employs FAConnect Platform to Meet Facultative Chile Quake Demand
Apr 28 2010 // Aon Benfield announced that it is utilizing its “groundbreaking FAConnect placement platform to respond to client demand for expanded Chile earthquake capacity.” The system opens the way for Aon’s clients...
Aon Report Concludes Aerospace Insurance Costs Continue to Decrease
Apr 27 2010 // Accoring to Aon’s Aerospace Insurance Markets Outlook 2010 report, “the price of insurance for the aerospace industry looks set to continue to decline in 2010, for the fourth year in a row. After 2009’s...
Crop Reinsurers’ Profit Could Fall 30% Under USDA Changes, Says Aon
Apr 12 2010 // Proposed cuts in the agreement crop insurers have with the federal government would likely reduce reinsurers’ expected profit by 20 to 30 percent, which could lead to some companies withdrawing from the program or...
Business Moves
Apr 5 2010 // ISU, Webb, Ken Hargis, Cox & Kimball, Darlage ISU International added four new member agencies in the Midwest: ISU Insurance Services The Webb Agency of St. Charles, Mo.; ISU Insurance Services Ken Hargis Agency of...
Marsh Joins Aon, Willis in Rejecting Contingent Commission Income
Mar 25 2010 // Giant insurance broker Marsh says its main brokerage unit will not accept contingent commissions on business for U.S. or Canadian clients but its Marsh & McLennan Agency and its affinity and personal lines business...
Aon Consulting to Acquire J.P. Morgan Benefit Actuarial Services
Mar 19 2010 // Aon Consulting, the benefits consulting business of Aon Corp., has agreed to acquire J.P. Morgan Compensation and Benefit Strategies, a division of J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, LLC. J.P. Morgan Compensation and...
Aon Founder Comes Out of Retirement to Launch Global Wholesaler
Mar 7 2010 // The founder and retired chairman and CEO of the world’s largest insurance broker, Aon, has revealed the management team and a second subsidiary for his new global specialty insurance operation whose first company was...
Large Brokers Freed to Go After Contingent Commissions But Will They?
Mar 7 2010 // The nation’s largest insurance brokers have received the go-ahead to begin accepting contingent commissions again – but two of them say they won’t do it. Officials in New York, Illinois and Connecticut...
Aon Finds P&I Club Renewals Face ‘More Benign’ Environment
Feb 24 2010 // According to Aon Risk Services marine division “ship owners faced a more benign Protection and Indemnity (P&I) renewal at 20th February 2010. “Against a back drop of an improving claims trend, and for some,...
