LOS ANGELES, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Risk Services Southern California, a unit of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC), the world's leading provider of global risk management and consulting services, today announced that Brendan Dolan has joined the Los Angeles office as senior vice president of the Financial Services Group.

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Dolan joins a distinguished team of executive liability brokerage professionals with extensive experience in representing buyers of complex insurance products including directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, and professional liability insurance. The Aon Financial Services Group has over $2.5 billion in annual premium under management, has been involved in claim settlements in excess of $3.5 billion since 2006, and uses its unmatched benchmarking data to support the diverse business goals of its clients.

Dolan brings 20 years of industry experience to Aon and rejoins the firm from Marsh, where he was a senior vice president and senior client advisor in Marsh's National Financial and Professional (FINPRO) Practice. He specialized in directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, and other executive protection/management liability coverage. Dolan also served on Marsh FINPRO's Global Advisory Board.

Prior to joining Marsh in 2005, Dolan was a senior vice president and broker for Aon's Financial Services Group in its national executive protection practice in Denver. He began his insurance brokerage career in 1988 with Minet Professional Services, a Lloyd's of London broker, specializing in professional liability insurance for major law firms, accounting firms, consulting firms as well as advertising and media companies.

Robert Smith, senior vice president and Financial Services Practice leader at Aon, stated, "I'm delighted to welcome Brendan back to Aon. His technical expertise and dedicated service to clients are among his greatest strengths -- and are invaluable in the current environment in which insurers are looking for every opportunity to preserve their capital in the context of declining market rates. We regard his return to the firm as a great win for our clients and an affirmation of our momentum in the Southern California market."

Dolan earned a Bachelor of Arts from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., and his juris doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar Association and U.S. Federal District Court (S.D.N.J.).

About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting. Through its 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Our industry-leading global resources, technical expertise and industry knowledge are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Aon was named the world's "best broker" by Euromoney magazine's 2008 Insurance Survey. Aon also was ranked by A.M. Best as the number one global insurance brokerage in 2007 based on brokerage revenues, and voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary, and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com/.

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