AOC Aon Corp.

Employees Currently Managing Billions in Estimated Property Loss CHICAGO, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More than one hundred Aon claims experts, including 45 dedicated Aon property claims consultants on the ground in Florida and the Gulf Coast, are working to manage property loss claims on behalf of clients, according to Aon Chief Executive Officer Greg Case, who discussed the matter during the company's third quarter earnings conference call this morning. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO ) Said Case: "As of this morning, Aon property claims consultants are working on claims involving more than 400 total losses from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. These claims range in value up to $1.2 billion, and represent billions in estimated loss." Employees on the ground are members of Aon's Catastrophe Team, part of the Technical Services National Practice Group within Aon Risk Services, able to be deployed anywhere in the U.S. a natural disaster occurs. Case continued, "The Catastrophe Team is an example of Aon recognizing a client need and investing the resources required to meet that demand. When we talk about operational excellence, this is the sort of client-focused, tangible benefit to which we refer." Added Case: "I am extremely proud; under difficult conditions, our employees have done an outstanding job helping our clients to rebuild and restore their business operations following these disasters." About Aon Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC) ( 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: Al Orendorff, Aon Corporation, 312.381.3153, or Thaddeus Woosley, Aon Corporation, 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, our ability to implement the stock repurchase program, 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: Al Orendorff, +1-312-381-3153, , or Thaddeus Woosley, +1-312-381-2446, , both of Aon Corporation Web site: http://www.aon.com/

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