Aon Provides Update to Employees and Families.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 17, 2001 To Aon's Colleagues, Families, and Friends: Our Aon family was touched all too dramatically by last week's events at the World Trade Center. We join the nation and the world in offering our prayers for the thousands of people injured or lost, and for the thousands more who are working tirelessly to aid them. Aon occupied floors 92 and 98-105 of Two World Trade Center. We have determined that approximately 1,350 of our employees were potentially at risk during Tuesday's tragedy. This includes approximately 1,100 employees who were based in the Two World Trade Center offices and approximately 250 employees who were either traveling to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. at that time or were located in Aon's other lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North offices. While we are grateful that approximately 1,150 are safe, we are deeply saddened that we still cannot confirm the safety of approximately 200 of our Aon colleagues. We continue to work to locate the missing, and we pray for their safe return. We are deeply moved by the way the Aon community around the world has rallied to help us respond to colleagues in need. Since Tuesday, our family has been working around the clock to provide support for employees and families who were directly affected, at our 24-hour call center, on the ground in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of area, and in many other locations around the world. Aon has established Crisis Support Centers, at locations throughout the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. , to provide group and individual counseling to employees and families, and to provide employee benefits guidance. Our Center at The Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel with a height of 250 feet (76 m) and length of 400 feet that (122 m) occupies the west side of Grand Army Plaza, from which it derives its name, and extends along Central Park South in Manhattan. was open Friday through Sunday, and many employees and families utilized the services there over the weekend. The Support Center at The Plaza remains open, and Monday morning we are opening additional facilities at the following locations: --Hyatt Regency Greenwich, 1800 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT; --Sheraton Hotel Parsippany, 199 Smith Road, Parsippany, NJ; --Harrison Conference Center at Glen Cove Glen Cove, city (1990 pop. 24,149), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island, at the entrance to Hempstead Harbor; settled 1668, inc. as a city 1918. , Dosoris Lane, Glen Cove, NY; -- New York Marriott Brooklyn, 333 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York We are also trying to help the families of those who were impacted by these events. We have been able to help many families travel to the New York area already, and we continue to offer to provide travel assistance and reimburse travel expenses for immediate family members of employees who are critically injured, missing, or deceased. We are providing enhancements to our standard medical coverage and short-term disability policies. We are also making financial counseling available to help those affected by this tragedy manage through these very difficult times. Aon has established an Assistance Fund to provide financial help to employees and family members affected by Tuesday's events. The Company will match donations, and plans to make its own substantial contribution. Aon has organized an interfaith prayer service to be held next Monday, September 24 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Patrick's St. Patrick's or Saint Patrick's may refer to:
We are thankful for the safety of so many of our employees who are in New York, and are working to ensure that they receive appropriate support. In addition to providing many of the services that I have described above, Aon is reimbursing interim travel, hotel, and living expenses for those employees who cannot yet return to their homes. We have also set up systems to ensure that dislocated dis·lo·cate tr.v. dis·lo·cat·ed, dis·lo·cat·ing, dis·lo·cates 1. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship. 2. employees can receive their paychecks. Lastly, while many of our New York employees have already returned to work in our other New York area offices, we are working to establish new office space in mid-town Manhattan. I am issuing a separate update this morning discussing the progress that we have made in our business recovery efforts and beginning to address the impact that these events will have on our business. The outpouring of support from our clients, and the insurance and corporate communities has been overwhelming, and on behalf of all of us at Aon, I offer my thanks. Finally, I wish to express our very deep gratitude to the global Aon community, without whom we could scarcely have survived such events. Your strength, support, and compassion have been inspirational, and it is my great honor to have you as colleagues. Let us remain together, to mourn mourn v. mourned, mourn·ing, mourns v.intr. 1. To feel or express grief or sorrow. See Synonyms at grieve. 2. the losses of our friends and loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl , and to demonstrate our resolve in the weeks and months to come. Sincerely, Patrick G. Ryan Aon Corporation (www.aon.com) is a holding company that is comprised of a family of insurance brokerage, consulting and insurance underwriting subsidiaries. Aon's common stock is listed on the New York, Chicago, Frankfurt and London stock exchanges London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. . This press release may contain certain statements relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc future results, which are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those anticipated, depending on a variety of factors such as general economic conditions in different countries around the world, fluctuations in global equity and fixed income markets, changes in commercial property and casualty premium rates, the competitive environment, the actual cost of resolution of contingent liabilities, the final form of the business transformation plan, the ultimate cost and timing of the implementation thereof, the actual cost savings and other benefits resulting therefrom there·from adv. From that place, time, or thing. Adv. 1. therefrom - from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all compounds thence constructible"- W.V. , whether the Company ultimately implements the proposed spin-off of its underwriting operations, and the timing and terms associated therewith there·with adv. 1. With that, this, or it. 2. In addition to that. 3. Archaic Immediately thereafter. Adv. 1. , and events surrounding terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001. Further information concerning the Company and its business, including factors that potentially could materially affect the Company's financial results are contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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