AOC Aon Corp.

CHICAGO, July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Re Global, the world's leading provider of reinsurance brokerage and consultancy services, announced Roderick P. Thaler has joined the company as vice chairman and member of the operating board, assuming leadership of the company's global accounts initiative and other business activities. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO ) "We're pleased and excited that Rod Thaler has joined the ARG executive team," said Michael O'Halleran, chairman and chief executive officer of Aon Re Global. "Rod's vast reinsurance background and his understanding of the importance of client-broker collaboration will be a tremendous benefit to our clients and our organization. His addition to the company further underscores that ARG continues to be the destination of choice for talent within our industry." Mr. Thaler is a 30-year reinsurance veteran, with expertise in a host of areas including the expansion of reinsurance market capacity for certain technical property lines of business. "I'm greatly looking forward to contributing to Aon Re Global's continued growth, working with Mike O'Halleran and his team, and further cementing ARG's leadership position with clients and the marketplace," Mr. Thaler said. Mr. Thaler graduated with honors from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts and sciences degree. Aon Re Global is the reinsurance and captive services subsidiary of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC), providing brokerage and consultancy services to insurance companies and captives through its network of offices throughout the world. 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 46,000 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: Rahsaan Johnson, Aon Corporation, 312.381.2684, 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: Rahsaan Johnson of Aon Corporation, +1-312-381-2684, Web site: http://www.aon.com/

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