All the headlines from our Aon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 7 2020 // Industry advisory firm TigerRisk Partners announced that Joe Jackson has joined its North American team. Jackson joins TigerRisk from Aon, where he was managing director of Reinsurance Solutions. He joined Benfield (later...
Jul 6 2020 // Zurich North America has appointed Alexander Wells as U.S. head of Middle Market. He will be responsible for the strategic management and development of Zurich’s Middle Market business.Wells, who is new to Zurich,...
Jun 30 2020 // Aon will end the salary cuts implemented in May as a response to the economic uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.Effective July 1, Aon will end the salary cuts and repay colleagues for the lower pay, although a...
Jun 24 2020 // Severe weather outbreaks across the United States, with a lot of hailstorm damage, resulted in another costly month for insurers as a significant proportion of the US$4 billion economic cost was covered by insurance,...
Jun 22 2020 // A group of brokers and insurers in the London market has come together to announce a new approach to keeping the products of modern slavery out of the export supply chain.Fidelis, Aon and Marsh have developed a clause...
Jun 16 2020 // Specialty insurer AXIS Insurance reported it has hired Eric Seyfried as Head of Cyber U.S. Open Market. In this new role, Seyfried will help implement the U.S. strategy for AXIS Insurance’s global cyber and...
Jun 16 2020 // Charles Taylor, the London-based provider of services and technology solutions to the global insurance market, has appointed Rob Brown as group chief executive officer.With more than three decades of industry experience,...
Jun 16 2020 // Aon has expanded the scope of CyQu Enterprise, a cyber risk assessment methodology, to help analyze the cyber security impacts of recent network access or policy changes businesses have made to accommodate the increase in...
Jun 15 2020 // Insurance broker and professional services firm Aon announced the formation of a coalition of other insurers, companies and organizations in the Chicago area to help advance economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19...
Jun 15 2020 // Everest Insurance announced changes to the Commercial Casualty leadership team. Four underwriters across the country have been appointed leaders for the Northeast, South, Midwest and Southwest regions.Frank Engle has been...
Jun 8 2020 // There have been at least three shareholder lawsuits filed over the mega-deal that would have insurance broker Aon acquire rival Willis Towers Watson. The suits allege that Willis and its directors breached their fiduciary...
Jun 5 2020 // While reinsurers are “open for business” and insurers and reinsurers are reporting the impacts of COVID-19 as a one-off catastrophe impacting earnings rather than capital, equity markets are viewing the...
Jun 1 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...
May 19 2020 // Global insurance broker Aon has promoted Steve Petrevski as senior vice president and general manager of Data & Analytic Services.Petrevski will be responsible for developing and executing Aon’s data and analytic...
May 18 2020 // Lockton Re, the global reinsurance business of insurance broker Lockton, has hired Keith Thurman to its Lockton Re Atlanta office to lead the buildout of its’ Workers’ Compensation practice in the U.S., working...
May 15 2020 // Aon has established an intellectual property liability underwriting platform with levels of capacity it says is the largest known delegated capacity for the risk.IP underwriter Ian Lewis has joined the company to spearhead...
May 8 2020 // Extensive severe weather events in the United States during April cost insurers billions of dollars, according to the latest edition of Aon’s Global Catastrophe Recap report.There were 14 killer tornadoes in the U.S....
May 1 2020 // Aon reaffirmed its commitment to the acquisition of Willis Towers Watson in a report of its first quarter results.“Our Aon United Strategy and pending combination with Willis Towers Watson are more important than...
Apr 30 2020 // Lockton Re, the global reinsurance business of the world’s largest privately held independent insurance broker, announced two new appointments in its London office. Phillip Mallon will be joining the North American...
Apr 27 2020 // Aon announced it will temporarily cut the pay by 50% of the company’s named executive officers in response to the COVID-19 crisis.In addition, 70% of its global workforce will see a 20% reduction in their salaries,...