AOC Aon Corp.

Web-based system stores, manages property risk data and information CHICAGO, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon (NYSE:AOC) announced today it has acquired the exclusive global right to distribute Web Risk Manager, an independent online property risk management solution. The company will market the tool as AonLine Property Risk Control (PRC) worldwide. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO ) Said Dave Nugent, managing director, Property Risk Control - U.S.: "Aon identified a need among corporate clients, insurance markets and risk control professionals for an easy-to-use web-based tool that can store, manage and analyze property risk data. AonLine PRC has the functionality and sophistication to meet our clients' needs. This is another example of Aon finding ways to help clients achieve better business results." Unlike similar offerings from competitors, AonLine PRC is an independent product, meaning the program user owns all the data and information. It's a web-based tool, available to users around the clock making for easy collaboration across multiple time zones. Users can store and manage data critical to managing property risk, including a link to underwriting for submissions, stewardship reporting, tracking recommendations, impairments, COPE (construction, occupancy, protection and exposure) information and asset values. AonLine PRC also features service tracking and notification functions and a customizable, searchable document library with a front end system called "Risk Pad," that pushes important information to the risk manager. Said E.J. Zinnecker, Jr., chief executive officer, Web Risk Manager: "Using our web based database system has fundamentally changed the way of servicing large property accounts at Aon. Electronically tracking property risk management information and providing analysis for risk managers, property consultants, and syndication and underwriting professionals has proven to be successful in client retention as well as the new insurance brokerage business. This trend of combining quality property consultants with an information tool like Web Risk Manager will continue as companies strive to be more efficient and look for ways to deliver consulting advice faster to niche areas of insurance brokerage and ultimately the business client for better risk exposure reduction." About Aon Aon Corporation ( http://www.aon.com/ ) is a leading provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting. There are 47,000 employees working in Aon's 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Backed by broad resources, industry knowledge and technical expertise, Aon professionals help a wide range of clients develop effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. For more information, contact: Thaddeus Woosley, Aon Corporation, +1.312.381.2446, . This press release contains certain statements related to future results, or states our intentions, beliefs and expectations or predictions for the future which are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from either historical or anticipated results depending on a variety of factors. Potential factors that could impact results include: general economic conditions in different countries in which we do business around the world, changes in global equity and fixed income markets that could affect the return on invested assets, fluctuations in exchange and interest rates that could influence revenue and expense, rating agency actions that could affect our ability to borrow funds, funding of our various pension plans, changes in the competitive environment, our ability to implement restructuring initiatives and other initiatives intended to yield cost savings, changes in commercial property and casualty markets and commercial premium rates that could impact revenues, changes in revenues and earnings due to the elimination of contingent commissions, other uncertainties surrounding a new compensation model, the impact of investigations brought by state attorneys general, state insurance regulators, federal prosecutors, and federal regulators, the impact of class actions and individual lawsuits including client class actions, securities class actions, derivative actions, and ERISA class actions, the cost of resolution of other contingent liabilities and loss contingencies, and the difference in ultimate paid claims in our underwriting companies from actuarial estimates. Further information concerning the Company and its business, including factors that potentially could materially affect the Company's financial results, is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Aon Corporation CONTACT: Thaddeus Woosley of Aon Corporation, +1-312-381-2446, Web site: http://www.aon.com/

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