• Aflac processes most claims within four days.
  • Over 40 million people worldwide have chosen Aflac.
  • Aflac was founded by three brothers, who started the company in six small rented rooms in Columbus, Georgia. Aflac now helps protect over 40 million people worldwide.
  • The Aflac Duck is enshrined on Madison Avenue's Walk of Fame as one of America’s Favorite Advertising Icons.
  • The Aflac Duck has been featured on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Saturday Night Live.” 
  • Aflac is not only the sound a duck makes. It also stands for American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus.
  • Aflac has a presence in all 50 states and Japan.
  • Aflac introduced one of the world's first income protection insurance products in 1958 for people diagnosed with cancer.
  • Fortune magazine selected Aflac as one of America’s Most Admired Companies for the seventh year in a row (March 2007).
  • Forbes magazine has included Aflac in its annual Platinum 400 List of America’s Best Big Companies for six years running (January 2006).
  • Fortune magazine named Aflac to its list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America for the tenth consecutive year (January 2008).
  • Aflac and its sales associates have pledged more than $40 million to fight cancer.
  • Since 1995, Aflac has focused its philanthropic work on the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
  • Standard and Poor’s rates Aflac AA in insurer financial strength (June 2006).
  • Moody’s Investor Service rates Aflac AA2 (Excellent) in insurer financial strength (January 2006).

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