Michael Porter ('96)
Aflac
910 Farm Springs Road
Summerville, SC 29483
Phone: 843-534-8738
Email: michael_porter@us.aflac.com
Website: http://www.aflac.com
Business Category:
Insurance
Business Description:
Here's an overview of how Aflac has been an industry leader in supplemental insurance for over 50 years:
Company Background
Brothers John, Paul, and Bill Amos founded Aflac in 1955.
Aflac introduced one of the world's first cancer expense insurance policies in 1958.
Since the 1980s, Aflac has added coverage offerings such as accident/disability, short-term disability, hospital intensive care, hospital confinement indemnity, long-term care, specified health event, life, dental, and vision.
Aflac has the largest on-site child-care facilities in Georgia: Imagination Station and Imagination Station Too. Together, the facilities have capacity for 540 children.
Business Statistics
Aflac has a presence in all 50 United States and in U.S. territories.
Aflac has more than 75,000 licensed agents.
Aflac offers a broad line of insurance policies to more than 427,000 U.S. payroll groups.
Aflac insures more than 40 million people worldwide.
Assets at year-end 2007 totaled more than $65 billion with annual revenues of more than $15.4 billion.
Aflac has received an A+ (Superior) rating from A.M. Best (June 2006).
Aflac is a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index
Other Affiliation to Skidmore: Alumna/us