AOC Aon Corp.

CHICAGO, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon (NYSE:AOC) announces that Michael S. Flanagan has been named Managing Director within the Aon Technology Group and Michael C. Lamprecht has been named Senior Vice President within the Aon Financial Services Group. Both the Aon Technology Group and the Aon Financial Services Group are a part of Aon Risk Services, Aon's commercial insurance brokerage subsidiary. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO ) A 15-year industry veteran, Flanagan has held a number of senior positions in the Midwest insurance brokerage community. He came to Aon from Arthur J. Gallagher, where he served as managing director of Gallagher Cyber Risk Services. As managing director, Flanagan was responsible for Gallagher downtown Chicago sales team. Prior to coming to Gallagher, Flanagan served as president of his own firm SiliconInsurance. Michael Lamprecht is a 10-year industry veteran and previously served as the national practice leader for eInsurance and CyberRisk Services at Gallagher. As national practice leader, Lamprecht supported Gallagher nationally on all Fortune 1000 technology, media and professional liability consulting and market placements. He was twice named a "Power Broker" by Risk and Insurance Magazine and specializes in tech-risk. "The technology industry is experiencing a resurgence similar to that of the late 1990s. The arrival of Flanagan and Lamprecht is just another step in building the pre-eminent firm focused on helping companies manage technology risks." said Tom Fitzgerald, managing director of the Aon Technology Group. "Mike and Mike bring a passion for developing innovative solutions that will continue to revolutionize the way technology companies think about risk management." In their new roles at Aon, Flanagan and Lamprecht will continue to develop risk management solutions for companies with technology, media, privacy, and intellectual property exposures. Both will be based in Chicago, Illinois. 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. For more information contact: Al Orendorff 312.381.3153 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 execute the stock repurchase program, our ability to obtain regulatory or legislative changes to permit continuous sales of our supplemental Medicare health product, 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/CGW049LOGODATASOURCE: Aon Corporation CONTACT: Al Orendorff of Aon Corporation, +1-312-381-3153, Web site: http://www.aon.com/

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