AOC Aon Corp.

CHICAGO, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC) today announced Sim Segal has joined the company's Enterprise Risk Management practice as a managing director in Aon Global Risk Consulting. Segal, 42, will lead the ERM service offering in the United States, responsible for product and service offerings, product development and thought leadership. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO) With more than 20 years experience, Segal has a range of expertise, including ERM, capital management, Sarbanes-Oxley, value-based management and stochastic retail financial planning. Segal joins Aon from Deloitte Consulting, where he spent five years and led the development of Deloitte's ERM modeling approach and tools, initially designed for the U.S. insurance industry and expanded to serve all industries. Prior to Deloitte, Segal spent 16 years at MetLife, where he was a key player in the first successful implementation of economic capital by a U.S. insurer, and also led MetLife's IPO eligibility team. "We are delighted to have Sim aboard," says Laura Taylor, managing director and head of Aon's U.S. Enterprise Risk Management practice. "His ability to build our brand in the ERM space and his thought leadership will help us continue to differentiate our leadership in this area." Segal is a member of the Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries, the SOA Leadership Development Committee, the SOA Risk Assessment Task Force and the SOA Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst Marketing Task Force. Segal has previously served as president of the Actuarial Society of Greater New York, as chairman of the SOA Management & Personal Development Section and as a Lead Actuary in the Actuarial Foundation's Advancing Student Achievement program. Segal is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. CERA is a professional credential in ERM recently launched by the SOA. Segal was one of a select group awarded the CERA based on his "thought leadership" and "significant contributions to advance the practice." He has also been invited to serve as a faculty member to teach seminars to advanced ERM practitioners who wish to earn the CERA. Segal is based in Aon's New York office at 199 Water Street. 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 43,000 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. Media Contact: Rahsaan Johnson 312-381-2684 http://www.aon.com/newsroom 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 successfully execute strategic options for our Combined Insurance subsidiary, the impact of current, pending and future regulatory and legislative actions that affect our ability to market and sell, and be reimbursed at current levels for, our Sterling subsidiary's Medicare Advantage health plans, 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, ERISA class actions, the impact of the analysis of practices relating to stock options, 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/ http://www.aon.com/newsroom

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