AFLAC

AFLAC is an American insurance company, whose name is an acronym that means American Family Life Assurance Company. Three brothers, John, Paul, and Bill Amos, founded it in 1955 in Columbus, Georgia.

At the end of 2002, the corporation's total assets were $45 billion. They offer insurance coverage for accidents/disabilities, cancer, short-term disabilities, hospital intensive care, hospital confinement indemnity, hospital confinement sickness indemnity, long-term care, specified health event, life and dental.

They have become much more famous and well known in recent times with their famous AFLAC duck commercials on television. He has now starred in many different commercials, due in part to the company's raised assets in the two years since his introduction. Most commercials feature the people discussing the short-term disability insurance that AFLAC provides but with the people unable to remember the name of the company and the duck "quacking" the company name to jog their memory.

In 2001, AFLAC was named by Fortune magazine as the fifth most admired company in the life and health insurance sector in its annual listing of "America's Most Admired Companies."