American Family Life Assurance Company Of New York

Aflac Inc., also known as American Family Life Assurance Company, is an American insurance company and the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States. The company was founded in 1955 by brothers John, Paul, and William Amos in Columbus, Georgia. Aflac underwrites a wide range of insurance policies and is known for its payroll deduction insurance coverage, which pays cash benefits when a policyholder has a covered accident or illness. The company provides financial protection to more than 50 million people worldwide. In 2009, Aflac acquired Continental American Insurance Company, enabling it to sell supplemental insurance on both the individual and group platform. As of 2012, Aflac was represented by approximately 19,300 sales agencies in Japan, and 76,900 licensed sales associates in the U.S. The company’s headquarters and corporate offices are located in an eighteen-story tower in Columbus, Georgia. As of 2015, the corporation’s total assets were more than $103 billion. Aflac offers several types of insurance policies in the United States, including accident, cancer/specified disease, dental, hospital confinement indemnity, hospital confinement sickness indemnity, hospital intensive care, life, lump sum cancer, lump sum cancer critical illness, specified health event, short term disability, and vision insurance.