All the headlines from our Aon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
Dec 20 2004 // Here Are the Heartlanders Who Made Insurance Headlines in 2004What 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dec 3 2004 // Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holding Ltd. announced that Aon Corporation has sold 9.8 million shares of Endurance common stock in a block sale to Goldman Sachs. The shares were sold under the Company’s Form S-3...