All the headlines from our Aon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 9 2010 // Aon Benfield has appointed Mike Van Slooten as head of the International Research team, which monitors and analyzes reinsurers and market trends.He will be responsible for “organizing market security and research...
Sep 9 2010 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘BBB+’ senior debt rating to Aon Corp.’s three tranches of recently priced senior debt issues. S&P said it expects that Aon will use the...
Sep 6 2010 // Aon Consulting has named Shelly Blackstone as vice president of business development in its Richmond, Virginia office. In her new role, Blackstone will develop new products and services clients in Central and Southern...
Sep 3 2010 // Aon Benfield’s latest release of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which provides an analysis of global natural perils in August, reports the month was “dominated by historic floods in Pakistan destroying over 1.25...
Aug 26 2010 // A bulletin from Aon UK, notes that Britain’s Insurance Fraud Bureau “has claimed that “crash for cash” schemes, in which car accidents are staged in order to claim on another drivers’...
Aug 20 2010 // Aon Benfield Securities, the securities and investment banking operation of Aon Benfield, announced the launch of the Aon Benfield ILS Indices, which provide a quantitative view of monthly insurance-linked securities (ILS)...
Aug 11 2010 // Aon Consulting has named Shelly Blackstone as vice president of business development in its Richmond, Virginia office.Additionally, Paul J. Mack has been promoted to health and benefits practice leader. In her new role,...
Aug 3 2010 // Floods in Pakistan and China have taken thousands of lives and damaged hundreds of thousands of homes, according to a new report on catastrophic events in July by a reinsurance team.A European heatwave, wildfires in Russia...
Aug 2 2010 // Western National, Wisconsin AmericanWestern National Insurance Group has finalized its affiliation with Wisconsin American Mutual Insurance Co. of Fond du Lac, Wis. Wisconsin American will continue to operate as a separate...
Aug 2 2010 // Markel, Aspen Holdings (FirstComp)Specialty insurer Markel Corp. has struck a deal worth at least $135 million to acquire Aspen Holdings, which sells workers’ compensation under the name FirstComp to small businesses...
Aug 2 2010 // RSI International, Insurance NetworkTexas-based RSI International Inc. has acquired Insurance Network Corp. (INC), a managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas. Established in 1996, Insurance Network Corp. specializes...
Aug 2 2010 // Giant insurance broker, Aon Corp., said it will resume taking contingent commissions from insurers where they are permitted – reversing its policy on the controversial compensation just six months after a legal...
Jul 30 2010 // Aon reported net income of $153 million in the second quarter 2010, compared to $149 million for the prior year quarter. Net income from continuing operations increased 22 percent to $179 million, compared to $147 million...
Jul 21 2010 // Giant insurance broker, Aon Corp., said it will resume taking contingent commissions from insurers where they are permitted— reversing its policy on the controversial compensation just six months after a legal...
Jul 19 2010 // As goes the circle of life, so goes the wholesale insurance broker world. Not even the sixth year of a soft market cycle has deterred industry veterans from launching new wholesale businesses or creating larger ones. Many...
Jul 19 2010 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development center, has launched the first fully functional Asian typhoon model to span the continent.“The new model will help insurers analyze the financial...
Jul 15 2010 // Insurance broker Marsh has appointed three industry veterans to its new Global Rail practice.Jim Beardsley joins the unit as Global Leader. Joining him are Jim Wolfarth as senior vice president, Casualty, and John Raymond...
Jul 15 2010 // Goodbye AIG, hello Aon. The Chicago-based giant announced that the new Manchester United home uniforms now feature its logo. Aon took over from AIG officially on June 1 as the principle sponsor of the famous football...
Jul 13 2010 // Aon Corp. will spend $4.9 billion to buy Hewitt Associates Inc., in an aggressive bid to leapfrog archrival Marsh and McLennan and create the world’s largest human resource services company.Aon, in its largest-ever...
Jul 12 2010 // Aon Corp. has agreed to buy human resource consulting firm Hewitt Associates in a deal worth $4.9 billion.Aon intends to integrate Hewitt with its existing consulting and outsourcing operations, Aon Consulting, and operate...