AOC Aon Corp.

REPeValuator Honored for Outstanding Innovation in Call Center Assessment CHICAGO, March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Consulting, a leading global human capital consulting firm, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R))'s Customer Inter@ction Solutions(R) magazine ( http://www.cismag.com/ ) has named REPeValuator a recipient of a 2005 Product of the Year Award. Customer Inter@ction Solutions has been the leading publication in the CRM, call center and teleservices industries since 1982(TM). (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO ) REPeValuator is a web-delivered selection, certification and training diagnostic tool, designed to help organizations fill English- and Spanish- speaking sales, service and collections positions. Through REPeValuator, applicants play the role of customer service representatives and participate in customer contact simulations. The program rates applicants' skills and generates a recommendation when completed. "We're honored to receive a Product of the Year Award from Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine," said Dan Russell, assistant vice president with Aon Consulting. "Many organizations worldwide are realizing a demonstrable return on investment based on their use of REPeValuator." "Each year Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. Aon Consulting has demonstrated to the editors of Customer Inter@ction Solutions that its product has gone the extra mile to help improve both the customer experience and the ROI for the companies that use them," said Nadji Tehrani, executive group publisher and editor-in-chief of Customer Inter@ction Solutions. The Product of the Year Award winners for 2005 were highlighted in the January and February 2006 issues of Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine. For more information, contact: Joe Micucci, Aon Consulting, 312-381-4786, . -or- Andrew Katz, TMC, 203-852-6800 ext. 279, . 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. Aon Consulting is among the top global human resources consulting firms, with 2005 revenues of $1.255 billion and 7,000 professionals in 120 offices throughout the world. Aon Consulting delivers integrated consulting solutions to help clients with employee benefits, human resources outsourcing, compensation, communication and management consulting. About TMC(R) Celebrating more than 30 years as a leading publisher, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R)) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions(R) and INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazines, Web portal TMCnet.com, and the online publications SIP(TM), Speech-World(TM), VoIP Developer(TM), WiFI Telephony(TM), WiMAX(TM), Alternative Power(TM) and BiometriTech(TM). TMC(R) is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC(R) Labs. TMC(R) produces INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Conference & EXPO, VoIP Developer Conference(TM) and Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit(TM). TMC offers live and online certification programs through TMC University. TMCnet.com publishes more than 14 online newsletters. Visit http://www.tmcnet.com/ for details. 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 execute 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: Joe Micucci of Aon Consulting, +1-312-381-4786, , or Andrew Katz of TMC, +1-203-852-6800 ext. 279, Web site: http://www.aon.com/ http://www.cismag.com/ http://www.tmcnet.com/

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