Judge Admits United National's Exhibits at Aon Trial

PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that United National Insurance Co. may present financial tables to a jury in an attempt to prove that Aon Ltd. withheld key information in marketing an insurance program to an Italian reinsurer. United National Insurance Co. v. Aon Ltd., No. 04-539 (E.D. Pa.).

In an Oct. 15 opinion, U.S. District Judge Louis H. Pollak ruled that the exhibit can be authenticated by United National's trial witness.

In 1989, broker Alexander Howden Ltd. created the "Alexander Howden Contractors and Allied Trades Insurance Program," which provided insurance coverage for building contractors in the United …