Latest Aon Headlines

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New Aon Cyber Offering Targets High Net Worth Individuals, Executives

Dec 4 2020 // Aon plc has expanded its Cyber Secure Select offering to include an enhanced cyber insurance program for high net worth individuals and executives. This new insurance offering in partnership with Aspen Insurance expands on...

Lockton Adds 3 Managing Directors from Aon to Its Transaction Liability Practice

Dec 2 2020 // Global insurance broker Lockton reports that three transaction liability advisors from Aon — Joshua Halpern, Gaurav Sud and Eric Ziff — have joined the firm to lead its mergers and acquisition (M&A) consulting...

Aon Hires Marsh’s O’Donnell as Client Director in PFI and Infrastructure Team

Nov 20 2020 // Insurance broker Aon plc announced that Karen O’Donnell has been appointed as a client director within its Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Infrastructure team, a specialist practice that sits within Aon’s...

Aon Targets M&A Market with Intellectual Property Assessment Offering

Nov 20 2020 // Insurance broker Aon has launched the Quality of Intellectual Property (QoIP) Solution that is designed to help companies receive higher transaction value by specifically articulating the quality of the seller’s IP...

Aon Secures $70M in Alternative Capital Capacity to Transfer Systemic Cyber Risk

Nov 19 2020 // Insurance broker Aon plc has launched a new product with Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. (an asset manager undertaking its re/insurance business as HSCM Bermuda) to protect insurers and reinsurers against...

Aon Launches Asia Pacific Capital Advisory Unit to Assist Re/insurer Clients

Nov 18 2020 // Insurance broker Aon plc has launched an Asia Pacific Capital Advisory unit within Reinsurance Solutions to deliver a holistic approach to capital optimization for re/insurers.The initiative follows Aon’s launch of...

Lockton Hires Aon’s Stine as Midwest Series VP in St. Louis

Nov 16 2020 // Lockton has added Casey Stine as a vice president and Business Development consultant for the firm’s Midwest Series.Stine, who has nearly a decade of experience in employee benefits and corporate human resource...

Aon Invests $30 Million to Create 10,000 Apprenticeships Nationwide by 2030

Nov 12 2020 // Global insurance broker Aon said it is expanding its corporate apprenticeship program with an investment of $30 million over the next five years.With this expansion, Aon hopes to develop a nationwide network of employers...

Florida Property Insurance Market Inches Closer to Crisis – Part 1

Oct 29 2020 // After years of warnings that the Florida property insurance market was heading towards an availability crisis, many in the industry say the moment of reckoning has arrived. They blame unchecked claims litigation from...

Marsh Adds Aon’s Albers to Lead Its Life Sciences Practice

Oct 22 2020 // Insurance broker Marsh announced that Eddie Albers has joined the firm to lead its U.S. Life Sciences practice.As the leader of Marsh’s U.S. Life Science Practice, Albers will play a key role in assisting life...

Guy Carpenter Taps Miller from Aon to Lead Property Catastrophe UK, Global Specialties

Sep 29 2020 // Guy Carpenter & Co., the reinsurance brokerage business of Marsh & McLennan Cos., announced the appointment of Paul Miller to lead Guy Carpenter’s Property Catastrophe value proposition for UK, Global...

Reinsurance Demand Rises, Along with Flight to Quality, Say Industry Experts

Sep 28 2020 // Not only has reinsurance buying increased, but there also has been a flight to quality reinsurers by ceding insurance companies, according to several reinsurers and brokers in recent webinars held in lieu of what would...

Catastrophe Losses Driven Higher by Secondary Perils – And Climate Change

Sep 23 2020 // Secondary perils, exacerbated by climate change, are driving catastrophe insurance losses, warn a growing chorus of reinsurers and brokers.Indeed, broker Aon reveals that more than 60% of 2020’s insured catastrophe...

Reinsurers Enter January Renewals, Focusing on Underwriting Discipline: Carpenter, Aon

Sep 14 2020 // Economic uncertainty and volatility, in combination with COVID-19-related losses, is leading to a heightened level of cautiousness among property reinsurers unless pricing and terms and conditions meet specific thresholds,...

Business Moves

Sep 7 2020 // Aon, Wills Towers WatsonShareholders of insurance brokers Aon and Willis Towers Watson have approved all of the proposals necessary to complete their previously announced combination, the firms announced. Aon intends to...

Insurers Say They’re Having Trouble Recruiting New Employees

Sep 2 2020 // U.S. insurers want to fill existing positions or expand their staffs over the next year but say they are still having trouble recruiting, even during the COVID-19 pandemic where unemployment has skyrocketed, according to a...

Aon, Willis Towers Watson Shareholders Approve Merger

Aug 26 2020 // Shareholders of insurance brokers Aon and Willis Towers Watson have approved all of the proposals necessary to complete their previously announced combination, the firms announced.Aon intends to combine with Willis in an...

Aon’s New Capital Partners Aims to Tap Additional Sources of Capital for Reinsurance

Aug 19 2020 // Global broker Aon has formed a new team in its Reinsurance Solutions business that will focus on building global investor relationships in order to identify additional sources of capacity to clients.The new Capital...

Leading Proxy Advisory Firms Recommend Shareholders Approve Aon, WTW Merger

Aug 11 2020 // Aon plc and Willis Towers Watson announced that two leading proxy advisory firms have recommended that shareholders vote in favor of the companies’ proposed combination.Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS)...

People & Places

Aug 10 2020 // Aon announced that Brent Rieth is the new U.S. practice leader of the Cyber Solutions Errors and Omissions/Cyber Broking team. Rieth first joined Aon in 2009 as team leader of the E&O/Cyber broking effort for...