Chicago Tribune | Aon chief not fazed by insurance probes

Chicago Tribune | Aon chief not fazed by insurance probes: "Aon chief not fazed by insurance probes
As rivals targeted, Ryan says his firm didn't steer clients

By David Greising and Ameet Sachdev, Tribune staff writers. Tribune staff writer Ray Gibson contributed to this story
Published December 5, 2004

In 40 years of business, Patrick Ryan has built the world's second-largest insurance broker from modest beginnings in Chicago.

Now Ryan--friend to Mayor Daley, co-owner of the Chicago Bears, dinner host to President Bush and namesake of Northwestern University's football field--is fighting to prove Aon has done no wrong in the face of an expanding investigation into the insurance industry by New York's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer."