All the headlines from our Aon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 13 2014 // In 2014, U.S. companies and their employees saw a slight uptick in the rate of U.S. health care cost increases, according to an analysis by corporate health and benefits consultant Aon Hewitt.After plan design changes and...
Nov 4 2014 // Aon plc, the provider of risk management and human resource consulting and outsourcing, announced that Matthew Heckler, chief information officer for Aon Hewitt, was named to IDG’s Computerworld Premier 100 IT...
Nov 4 2014 // Aon Benfield, the reinsurance intermediary and capital adviser of Aon plc, has acquired Safe Brokers to strengthen its investment in the Greek and Cypriot markets.Safe Brokers is an independent reinsurance broker with...
Oct 31 2014 // Emerging trends support a positive profit outlook for homeowners insurers, a leading broker believes..Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield’s 2014 Homeowners ROE Outlook concludes that insurers’ prospective after-tax...
Oct 29 2014 // With concerns growing in the U.S. over Ebola exposure — New York City confirmed its first case of Ebola Thursday, Oct. 23 — an executive from Aon plc advised it’s important for businesses to engage in...
Oct 28 2014 // Aon has launched an Ebola response product available to all health care institutions and features worldwide coverage on cases brought in the U.S.Negotiated in partnership with Hiscox, the product – called the Ebola...
Oct 28 2014 // Aon Risk Solutions and the Aon WorldAware Operations Center have together launched the Aon Re-Call Crisis Center, a new feature to support business clients affected by a recall or contamination crisis. The hotline is...
Oct 21 2014 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development unit, launched a catastrophe model to estimate the financial impact of earthquakes in the Arabian Peninsula.The demand for catastrophe modeling in the...
Oct 21 2014 // Aon plc has activated the Aon Ebola Response Task Force, a team comprised of risk and health professionals worldwide, to monitor the current Ebola outbreak and provide guidance to clients directly and through its newly...
Oct 20 2014 // Pete Lahn has been appointed senior vice president of Legal, as well as secretary and general counsel for Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co., in Grinnell, Iowa. The appointment is effective Dec. 19, 2014.Lahn brings more than...
Oct 6 2014 // Adam Podlaha, the head of Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting division, is responsible for overseeing the collection of the data and its implementation in creating the latest catastrophe and other models. He explained...
Oct 2 2014 // Aon Benfield’s COO Michael Moran shares Chicago roots with Aon and a lot more as he oversees the implementation of the strategy for its $30 billion a year reinsurance division. He discussed just what that entails in...
Oct 1 2014 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc, announced the launch of a new insurance product, developed by Aon Benfield’s ReSolutions team that “is set to drive growth in...
Sep 30 2014 // Aon plc announced that Andy Weitz, 37, will become senior vice president of global marketing and communications on October 1st.Weitz was most recently president and CEO of the U.S. region for Hill + Knowlton Strategies, a...
Sep 25 2014 // Wells Fargo Insurance has named Alejandra (Alex) Evans as senior vice president for its Risk Management and International business. Evans is responsible for collaborating with national and regional sales leadership and...
Sep 24 2014 // Wells Fargo & Co., the largest bank on the U.S. West Coast, hired Alejandra Evans as senior vice president for risk management and international business at its insurance operation. Evans joins from Aon Plc, where she...
Sep 22 2014 // Kyle Samuel Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Company, has named Kyle Samuel managing director for its Metro Washington, D.C., and Virginia offices. Samuel will lead business development, client service and...
Sep 11 2014 // The PERILS Windstorm Exposure data for Europe is now available in the Impact Forecasting ELEMENTS format. In a telephone interview Adam Podlaha, head of Aon Benfield lmpact Forecasting, said that Aon Benfield has licensed...
Sep 11 2014 // Alternative capital has captured approximately a 20 percent market share of property catastrophe reinsurance volume.That news came our of Aon Benfield Securities, which issued its annual report on the insurance-linked...
Sep 8 2014 // The latest edition of the Aon Benfield Aggregate (ABA) report, which analyzes the financial results of the world’s leading reinsurers in the first half of 2014, estimates that global reinsurer capital reached a...