SAN FRANCISCO and CHICAGO, August 26, 2009 – Aon Corporation’s (NYSE: AOC) health care practice today announced the promotion of Gisele Norris, DrPH, as managing director for the Western region and appointment of Kathryn Meyers as a senior broker to serve its national client base.

In her newly expanded role, Norris will lead the development of innovative risk solutions for health care organizations in the West, overseeing the delivery of Aon’s distinctive health care services and resources to the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Hawaii, Alaska and Nevada. 

“Our clients in the West will directly benefit from Dr. Norris’ 17 years in the business as she expands her leadership role to ensure that the best Aon resources are used to meet client needs as cost effectively as possible,” said Matt Rice, managing director of Aon Health Care.

Meyers, who comes to Aon after having served as underwriting director for CNA Health Pro for the last six years, will be responsible for program design and broking for Aon’s larger health care organization clients. She will play an integral role in new business and product development, and further the practice’s strategy of integrating broking, analytics and alternative risk consulting into its client approach.

Dominic Colaizzo, managing director of Aon Health Care, added: “Kathryn brings a wealth of experience to complement Aon’s existing client service. Our client partners will find immediate value in her experience with broking, underwriting and developing product offerings for medical professional, general liability, alternative risk and excess programs.”

For the past 13 years, Norris has played a principal role in Aon's National Health Care Practice by providing clients with unparalleled risk and insurance consulting services as well as valuable insight based on her background in epidemiology and health policy – most recently delivered through her role as a primary leader of Aon’s Pandemic Preparedness Task Force. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Master of Public Health and Master of Public Administration degrees from Columbia University and Doctorate in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley.

Prior to her time spent with CNA, Meyers served 12 years in various capacities with Marsh in areas including alternative risk solutions, broking and risk management services. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international business from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. and earned her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago.

Norris will remain based in the San Francisco area while Meyers will join the Chicago office.

Media Contacts:
Kelly Drinkwine                      Tiffany Greco
312.381.2684                         312.755.3549
kelly_drinkwine@aon.com     tiffany.greco@kemperlesnik.com

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/

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