Latest Aon Headlines
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Aon Offers Insurance for Pandemic Building Closures
Oct 28 2009 // Aon’s London office has announced that companies can now insure themselves for costs incurred if their building or the vicinity is officially closed due to a pandemic. Aon launched the coverage as cases of the H1N1...
Aon K&R Head Repeats Call to Update Piracy Protection Policies
Oct 27 2009 // In light of the recent spike in pirate attacks, Clive Stoddart, head of Aon’s kidnap and ransom team, issued a call for ship owners to review insurance cover if thye plan on transiting the Gulf of Aden or parts of...
Aon to Acquire Carpenter Moore
Oct 27 2009 // Global insurance broker Aon Corp. has agreed to acquire Carpenter Moore Insurance Services, Inc., a provider of executive liability risk management services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of The NASDAQ OMX Group,...
Bayeux Joins Aon Risk Services as Managing Director
Oct 20 2009 // Aon Corp has named John Bayeux as managing director of Aon Risk Services. Bayeux has 22 years of experience as a risk manager and insurance broker in the financial institutions sector. He will work with clients, the...
ACE Names Talbott Executive Vice President – International Property
Oct 14 2009 // The ACE Group of insurance and reinsurance companies has announced the appointment of Derek Talbott as Executive Vice President, International Property. He will be responsible for the management and performance of...
Aon Expands UK-based Renewable Energy Practice
Oct 14 2009 // Aon announced that it has recruited Peter Lewis to the Renewable Energy Practice, within Aon Power. He will join the team, led by Tom Sexton, in early 2010. Lewis moves over to Aon from Marsh where he was a key member of...
Employers Plan Big Changes for Employee Medical Plans for Next Year
Oct 7 2009 // As employees flip through their open enrollment packets, they may notice substantial changes to their medical plan for 2010, from increases in employee contributions to a new wellness program. According to the 2009...
Aon Finds European Risk Managers Underestimate Environmental Risk
Sep 28 2009 // Aon’s Global Risk Management Survey 2009 has found that “environmental risk ranked lower as a concern in Europe than any other region – despite the introduction of the EU Environmental Liability Directive...
Aon Consulting Canada Appoints Coll Chief Commercial Officer
Sep 24 2009 // Aon Consulting, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corp;, announced that Douglas A. Coll, has joined Aon Consulting Canada in the newly created position of Chief Commercial Officer, focused on revenue...
Aon Launches ‘Risk Audit’ for Wealthy Clients
Sep 15 2009 // Aon’s Private Risk Management (APRM) division notes that, as a result of the current recession, “the percentage of a family’s wealth invested in tangible assets, such as property, art and cars, has...
Aon Survey Finds UK’s D&O Premiums Still Below U.S. Rates
Sep 9 2009 // According to Aon’s Quarterly D&O Pricing Index, “US financial institutions (FI) saw premium increases of 15 percent on average in Q2,” as did a number of the UK’s financial institutions....
Aon, Partner Re Release Latest Hazard & Risk Review at Monte Carlo
Sep 9 2009 // Aon Benfield and PartnerRe have released their annual re/insurance industry report, Hazard & Risk Science Review 2009, which showcases the latest developments in the field of natural hazard and risk science. The...
Aon Benfield Presents Online Facultative Reinsurance Placement System
Sep 4 2009 // Aon Benfield Fac, the broker’s facultative reinsurance division, announced the launch of a new online service, FAConnectSM, to expedite the placement of facultative risks. The service has already “been endorsed...
Aon Urges Ship Owners to Buy K&R Now, as Pirates Renew Attacks
Sep 4 2009 // A bulletin from Aon’s London office urges ship owners looking for kidnap and ransom coverage to “seek quotes now before an improvement in weather lures Somalian pirates back into the waters,” following a...
Aon Review Finds Offshore Energy Renewals ‘a Mixed Bag’
Sep 3 2009 // A report from Aon’s London office concludes that “2009 Insurance premiums are predicted to remain flat for offshore energy business for October’s renewals.” The premiums are dependent on location,...
Shankar Joins Aon’s Asia Pacific Consulting as Chief Commercial Officer
Sep 3 2009 // Aon Consulting, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation, announced that 20-year industry veteran Anand Shankar has joined the firm in the newly created position of Chief Commercial Officer, Asia...
Aon, XL Insurance to Offer UK Lawyers Professional Coverage
Sep 2 2009 // Aon announced that it will be working with XL Insurance to bring new capacity, and thus more competition and innovation, to the solicitors’ [lawyers’] professional indemnity (PI) market. Aon noted that XL...
P&I Clubs Must Overcome Investment Addiction Says Aon Report
Aug 25 2009 // In a new report Aon suggests that P&I [ Protection & Indemnity] clubs only “need to increase premiums by 0-7.5 percent despite the surge in high value claims in 2006 and 2007 and the steep decline in...
Aon Makes UK, EMEA Appointments
Aug 24 2009 // Aon UK announced the appointment of Keith Ashworth as head of risk transfer for UK & EMEA [Europe, Middle East and Africa] for Aon Global’s newly integrated team, combining UK brokerage operations with EMEA...
Aon Chosen to Consolidate Property Fund Manager Insurance Program
Aug 19 2009 // Aon announced that Cordea Savills, the international property fund manager, has appointed Aon to consolidate its current insurance arrangements into a Pan European insurance program, following an extensive tendering...
