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Platform will identify best placement option regardless of size, industry, coverage line or geography CHICAGO, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Building on its client-focused approach to doing business, Aon Risk Services, the commercial retail brokerage unit of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC) and the leading provider of global risk management, today announced the launch of the Aon Client Promise and Global Risk Insight Platform in 16 countries around the world. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO) The Aon Client Promise is a set of 10 differentiators identified by clients as key qualities desired in a broker and risk consultant. It is anchored by GRIP, a real-time electronic platform that tracks all of Aon's placements globally, from submission to quotes and binding. "GRIP is the most profound technology solution in the risk management industry and will enable Aon to work with clients and markets in a very distinctive way," said Steve McGill, chairman and CEO of Aon Risk Services. "The possession of high-quality, world-class analytics is a new dynamic, and this trend will accelerate in the broking sector. Today, a client has important needs across the world of risk and our focus is on providing solutions such as GRIP to reduce their total cost. "For the first time, brokers and their clients will be able to see in real time at what prices and with what coverages and limits carriers in all major insurance markets are quoting and binding business by class or territory. Aon will be providing clients with a unique vantage point from which to make informed strategic marketing and insurance buying decisions." In the U.S. alone, 4,000 trades on average are captured by the system each week. As of today, GRIP is live in 16 countries, resulting in the tool's population in excess of 100,000 trades and $14 billion in premium to date. Aon Risk Services is able to determine how its premium placement flows at any moment - by stage, product, carrier and industry. Analytics of the GRIP application are provided centrally through Aon's Centre of Innovation and Analytics, based in Dublin, Ireland. The innovative technology of GRIP empowers Aon to harness the power of the market insight that accompanies the firm's placement of more than $54 billion in premiums on an annual basis. As a result, Aon is best-positioned to optimize an organization's total cost of risk based on risk insights and innovative solutions. Ted Devine, president of Aon Risk Services, stated: "To remain as the leader, we must help our clients and colleagues perform better. By leveraging our data into an unmatched innovative technology offering, GRIP will help us identify the carrier that best fits each of our client's needs and requirements." Global rollout of GRIP, as of 28 May 2009: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore Editor's note: Screenshot of GRIP and headshots of Mr. McGill and Mr. Devine available upon request. About Aon Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 37,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008 and 2009 Insurance Survey, Aon also ranked highest on Business Insurance's listing of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues in 2008. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007 and 2008, and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007 and 2008 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com/. Media Contact: Kelly Drinkwine, 312.381.2684 or http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Aon Corporation CONTACT: Kelly Drinkwine of Aon Corporation, +1-312-381-2684, Web Site: http://www.aon.com/

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