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Aon Complaint Memos Reveal Personal Lines Arrangements
Mar 21 2005 // The recent $190 million settlement between the world’s second largest insurance broker, Aon, and officials in three states sheds light on how, as New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other public officials...
CEO of Aon’s Insurance Wholesaler Swett & Crawford Leaves the Company
Mar 15 2005 // Thomas Comer, president and CEO of Swett & Crawford, announced to employees at the end of the business day on March 14 that he will be leaving the company, according to unidentified sources. The reason for...
Aon Units Release Global Climate/Catastrophe Report
Mar 11 2005 // Two Aon subsidiaries, Aon Re Global and Impact Forecasting, LLC, have released a report on 2004’s natural catastrophes, describing “a year of freakish weather patterns, ending with the worst natural disaster in...
Aon Settles Corruption Probe with 3 States for $190 Million; Complaint Cites Involvement of Top Execs
Mar 4 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Acting New York State Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills, together with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Illinois...
Aon Responds: Apologizes but Admits No Wrongoing; Notes No Criminal Charges Filed
Mar 4 2005 // Aon Corporation acknowledged the settlement it reached with officials in three states over investigations that questioned the large brokerage firm’s receipt of contingent commissions from insurers by apologizing for...
Aon in Settlement Talks with N.Y., Conn. and Ill. Attorneys General
Feb 22 2005 // Giant insurance broker Aon is in talks with the attorneys general of Connecticut, New York and Illinois that could potentially lead to settlement of charges related to improper compensation and account placement...
Aon Exploring Alternatives for Swett & Crawford
Feb 16 2005 // Chicago-based Aon Corp. reported on Wednesday that it is exploring alternatives relating to its ownership of Swett & Crawford, the largest U.S.-based wholesale insurance broker with more than 900 employees in 40...
Aon’s Trade Credit 2005 Political and Economic Risk Map Notes Costs of Supply Chain Disruptions
Feb 2 2005 // Aon’s Trade Credit division has published its annual analysis of the world’s trade credit and political risk hotspots as illustrated in a new “2005 Political and Economic Risk Map.” The...
Aon Risk Services to Serve as Broker for Freedom Tower Construction in Lower Manhattan
Feb 1 2005 // Aon Risk Services Inc. has been appointed by World Trade Center Properties LLC, an affiliate of Silverstein Properties Inc., as broker for insurance coverage related to the construction of the Freedom Tower in Lower...
Aon to Hold Oklahoma Risk Management Seminars
Jan 27 2005 // Aon announced it is introducing a series of forums in Oklahoma aimed at helping make sense of the increasingly complex risk management environment. Aon designed the 2005 Oklahoma Business Risk Forums to offer participants...
Aon Captive Services Team Makes Appointments
Jan 27 2005 // Aon Captive Services Group (ACSG), the global captive insurance services arm of Aon Corporation, has made a series of appointments and changes to its management team. Scott Frazier has been named group managing director of...
Aon Expert: Aviators Should Take Second Look at Introduction of the 747
Jan 24 2005 // With the introduction last week of the 555-passenger Airbus A380 aircraft, an Aon aviation expert said the world’s aviation industry must now look to the past to accommodate what may be its future. Wayne Wignes,...
Aon Launches Latin American Affinity Program
Jan 19 2005 // In a joint announcement, datelined Chicago and Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aon Corp. announced the formation of Aon Affinity Latin America. “The organization will be headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where Aon has an...
Aon Study: Board of Directors Pay Up 23% in 2003-04
Jan 12 2005 // According to an analysis of 1,475 public company proxies, Aon has found that increased scrutiny over corporate governance and the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley have not come without a price. A recent study showed that Board of...
The Midwest’s Top 10 Newsmakers in 2004
Dec 29 2004 // What a long, strange trip it’s been. The year started with the two Chicago-area property/casualty insurance trade groups, the National Association of Independent Insurers and the Alliance of American Insurers,...
The Midwest’s Top 10 Newsmakers
Dec 20 2004 // Here Are the Heartlanders Who Made Insurance Headlines in 2004 What a long, strange trip it’s been. The year started with the two Chicago-area property/casualty insurance trade groups merging to form the Property...
Aon’s Pat Ryan Backtracks on Ethics Declaration
Dec 20 2004 // Aon Corp. CEO Patrick G. Ryan’s attempt at a PR offensive hit a snag when he had to clarify comments he made in a top-of-the-fold, front-page Dec. 5 Chicago Tribune story about the No. 2 broker’s ethical...
Aon: More than Half of Companies Studied Decide to ‘Take Up’ Some Kind of Terrorism Insurance
Dec 15 2004 // With the “new reality” created by the terrorist acts of Sept. 11, 2001, companies throughout the globe faced a new set of issues in managing the broad spectrum of risks created by these events. In a study...
Aon Chief Acknowledges Employee Violations with Business Conduct Code
Dec 8 2004 // Insurance giant Aon Corp., whose practices are under review as part of an industrywide investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, said for the first time that some of its employees have violated the...
Aon Liquidates Endurance Investment
Dec 6 2004 // Aon Corporation announced that it has sold virtually all of its equity investment in Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. The statement follows Aon’s sale of 9.8 million shares in the company to investment...
