LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Risk Services, the retail brokerage and risk management unit of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC), today announced Stuart Rover has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as senior account executive. In this role, Rover is responsible for servicing client needs, expanding client relationships and developing risk management business opportunities throughout Southern California.

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With broad property-casualty insurance experience and significant expertise in delivery of solutions in the technology and telecommunications industries, Rover brings to Aon's clients 20 years of experience in client service, delivery of risk management and insurance solutions and business development.

Rover joins Aon from Marsh Risk & Insurance Services, where for nine years he served as a senior vice president, responsible for managing client relationships and for business development.

Before joining Marsh, Rover spent two years at Cal-Surance, engaged in the sales and consulting of group professional liability programs to broker dealers and life and health general agents. He previously spent nine years as vice president of sales and account management with Johnson & Higgins in the firm's middle market operation.

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. In 2008, Aon ranked highest on the Business Insurance ranking of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues. Aon also was ranked by A.M. Best as the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007 and 2008, and was 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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