Aflac Increases Dividend for 28th Consecutive Year · AFL has raised its annual dividend since 1982, making it a Dividend Achiever, Dividend Aristocrat and U.S. Dividend Champion. More... posted by Richard Howard at 8:29 AM Aflac ...

Deal Watch: Alston & Bird ensures Aflac's first acquisition Daily Report - 22 minutes ago By Janet L. Conley, Associate Editor When, for the first time in its 54-year history, Columbus-based insurance provider Aflac Inc. decided to acquire another company, Alston & Bird lawyers were on ...

Excerpt: "The Social Security Administration has agreed to pay more than $500 million in back benefits to more than 80,000 recipients whose benefits were unfairly denied after they were flagged by a federal computer program designed to catch serious criminals, officials said Tuesday. According to a preliminary agreement, approved Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland, Calif., the Social Security Administration will pay recipients who have been denied benefits since Jan. 1, 2007. In addition, more than 120,000 recipients who were denied benefits before 2007 are eligible to apply for reinstatement." (The Washington Post via AARP)

Aflac is in an uptrend BloggingStocks - 1 hour ago It appears the market is finally starting to see the value in Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL), hence it goes without saying that I'm reiterating my Buy rating for company, first recommended on May ...

Dividend Opportunities Among Insurance Companies Investopedia - 1 hour ago At this point, we all know that investing in financial stocks has been hazardous to a portfolio's health over the past 12-18 months. Investment banks, money center banks, regional banks and real ...

Aflac Says It Issued Stock After 'Counting Error' Bloomberg - 3 hours ago By Hugh Son Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Aflac Inc., the largest seller of supplemental health insurance, failed to notify regulators, because of a “counting error,” before it issued 1.28 million ...

Assurant profits down with most health insurers; AIZ, AET, WLP, AFL, MET Learning Markets - 1 hour ago Wednesday, Insurance products and related services provider Assurant Inc. (AIZ) reported a decrease in its second-quarter net operating income, hurt by losses at its Assurant Health and lower ...

AFLAC Raises Guidance, but 2009 Earnings Remains Inline with Estimates Trading Markets (press release) - 1 hour ago Jul 29, 2009 (EarningsWhispers Guidance Summaries via Comtex) -- AFL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) said it expects third ...

Aflac (AFL) Momentum Alert: 8.3% Move in 22 Days Trading Markets (press release) - 42 minutes ago Jul 07, 2009 (SmarTrend(R) Spotlight via COMTEX) -- AFL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- SmarTrend's proprietary algorithms detected bearish price action on shares of Aflac (NYSE:AFL) which ...

Aflac Lands on Black Enterprise Magazine's List of 40 Best Companies for Diversity PR Newswire (press release) - 1 hour ago COLUMBUS, Ga. , June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac today announced that the Georgia -based insurance provider has been named to Black Enterprise magazine's list of the Top 40 Best Companies for ...

Aflac Duck Gets Some Help From Friends on the Farm PR Newswire (press release) - 38 minutes ago COLUMBUS, Ga. , June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac today launched a new television commercial titled, "Farm," that combines the trademark humor of the Aflac Duck with a critical message about the ...

Aflac CEO Doesn't Anticipate Raising New Capital For Now Wall Street Journal - 5 minutes ago By Lavonne Kuykendall Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Faced with write-downs in its hybrid debt investments, supplemental medical insurer Aflac Inc. (AFL) has discussed raising capital ...

Aflac Incorporated 2009 Financial Analyst Briefing Transcript BNET - 33 minutes ago My name is Ken Janke and I’m Senior Vice President of Investor Relations for Aflac. I’d like to be the first of a few to welcome you to our 2009 Financial Analyst Briefing. Things are a little bit ...

Aflac's Kriss Cloninger Named One of America's Best CFOs Earthtimes (press release) - 1 hour ago COLUMBUS, Ga. , May 14 -- Kriss Cloninger was named one of America's Best CFOs in Institutional Investor's annual ranking of the top chief financial officers. The survey polls investment ...

Liberty Mutual Halves Holdings of Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Bloomberg - 13 minutes ago By Linda Shen May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Liberty Mutual Group Inc., the policyholder-owned property insurer, cut its holdings of Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. by more than half in the ...