COLUMBUS, Ga., March 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac, the
leading provider of voluntary insurance at the worksite in
the United States, announced today
that it has once again been included on Ethisphere's listing of the
World's Most Ethical Companies (WME). This is the 11th
time that Aflac has appeared on this list, making Aflac the only
insurance company to appear on the list every year since it was
created in 2007. Aflac is among 124 companies being honored in 2017
and is the only company from the Accident & Life Insurance
category.
"We take enormous pride in being considered a World's Most
Ethical Company," Aflac Chairman and CEO Dan Amos said. "As a company that sells a
promise, it is essential that our customers can rely on Aflac to do
the right thing when it comes to providing the benefits they need.
We are grateful to Ethisphere for compiling this list and pleased
that Aflac is the only insurance company to hold a coveted spot for
11 straight years."
To create the list of World's Most Ethical Companies, the
Ethisphere Institute generates scores in five key categories and
assigns a weight to each category. The categories include:
- Ethics and compliance program (35 percent),
- Corporate citizenship and responsibility (20 percent),
- Culture of ethics (20 percent),
- Governance (15 percent), and
- Leadership, innovation and reputation (10 percent).
Using this data, Ethisphere creates their proprietary Ethics
Quotient, which provides a quantitative assessment of a company's
performance in an objective, consistent and standardized
format.
"Over the last eleven years, we have seen the shift in societal
expectations, constant redefinition of laws and regulations, and
the geopolitical climate. We have also seen how companies like
Aflac, which has been honored as a World's Most Ethical Company
every year since we created this distinction, respond to these
challenges. They invest in their local communities around the
world, embrace strategies of diversity and inclusion, and focus on
long-termism as a sustainable business advantage," explained
Ethisphere's Chief Executive Officer, Timothy Erblich. "Congratulations to everyone at
Aflac for being recognized as a World's Most Ethical Company once
again."
About Aflac
When a policyholder gets sick or hurt,
Aflac pays cash benefits fast. For six decades, Aflac insurance
policies have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on
recovery, not financial stress. In the
United States, Aflac is the leading provider of voluntary
insurance at the worksite. Through its trailblazing One Day
PaySM initiative, Aflac U.S. can receive, process,
approve and disburse payment for eligible claims in one business
day. In Japan, Aflac is the
leading provider of medical and cancer insurance and insures 1 in 4
households. Aflac individual and group insurance products help
provide protection to more than 50 million people worldwide. For 11
consecutive years, Aflac has been recognized by Ethisphere as one
of the World's Most Ethical Companies. In 2017, Fortune magazine
recognized Aflac as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in
America for the 19th consecutive year and included Aflac on its
list of Most Admired Companies for the 16th time. In 2015, Aflac's
contact centers were recognized by J.D. Power by providing "An
Outstanding Customer Service Experience" for the Live Phone
Channel. Aflac Incorporated is a Fortune 500 company listed on the
New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AFL. To find out more
about Aflac and One Day PaySM, visit aflac.com or
espanol.aflac.com.
About the Ethisphere Institute
The Ethisphere® Institute is the global leader in
defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices
that fuel corporate character, marketplace trust and business
success. Ethisphere has deep expertise in measuring and defining
core ethics standards using data-driven insights that help
companies enhance corporate character. Ethisphere honors superior
achievement through its World's Most Ethical Companies recognition
program, provides a community of industry experts with the Business
Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) and showcases trends and best
practices in ethics with the publication of Ethisphere Magazine.
More information about Ethisphere can be found at:
http://ethisphere.com.
Media contact – Jon Sullivan,
706.763.4813 or jsullivan@aflac.com
Ethisphere Media Contact - Clea
Nabozny, 480.397.2658 or
Clea.Nabozny@ethisphere.com
Analyst and investor contact – Robin Y.
Wilkey, 706.596.3264 or 800.235.2667, FAX: 706.324.6330, or
rwilkey@aflac.com
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