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Annual report by Aon Analytics indicates how defense industry is managing risk CHICAGO, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC), the leading global provider of risk management services, today released its 2009 Defense Industry Benchmarking Report. The annual report was generated by Aon Analytics to address the key issues and concerns of defense industry clients and support their risk management decision-making with quality data and informed analysis. These findings will allow organizations to benchmark their risk management and risk financing practices against those of their peers and competitors and identify practices or approaches that may improve the effectiveness of existing risk management strategies. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO) The benchmarking data in the report reflects insurance programs of major U.S. Department of Defense contractors, all of which have trailing 12-month revenues greater than $8 billion. The Aon Analytics 2009 Defense Industry Benchmarking Report is broken into five categories: -- Retentions: analyzing insurance retention trends in workers' compensation; auto, general and property liability; coverage related to the Defense Base Act -- Limits: benchmarking insurance limits for aviation, directors' and officers', and umbrella/excess liability coverage -- Premiums: comparing DBA premium rates of 18 companies -- Risk management department size: measuring staffing patterns -- Captive usage: reviewing the employment of this vehicle to help manage and finance property/casualty risks "The global business environment is simultaneously full of risk and opportunity as the credit crisis and recession continue to evolve," said Charlie Skinner, managing director of Aon's Defense Industry Alliance. "Organizational sustainability and profitability demands the proactive understanding and management of risk. "Previously, credible and relevant risk-financing program benchmarking data has been hard to come by. With our unmatched data resources, Aon is pleased to provide our defense industry clients with the information they require to assure stakeholders that their risk management function is not only operational, but vigilant and efficient." Methodology Aon's 2009 Defense Industry Benchmarking Report is primarily based on data collected in May and June 2009 through a survey of major contractors to the U.S. Department of Defense. Aon Analytics, along with the support of additional Aon insurance and industry specialists, collected and tabulated the results, provided analysis and interpreted the findings, and prepared the report. To access Aon's 2009 Defense Industry Benchmarking Report, visit http://www.aon.com/defenseindustryreport Follow Aon on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/aoncorp 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 Contacts Kelly Drinkwine Cybil Rose 312.381.2684 312.755.3537 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, ; or Cybil Rose, +1-312-755-3537, , for Aon Corporation Web Site: http://www.aon.com/

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