Georgia Companies Feel Impact of Japanese Disaster
Press release from the issuing company
Monday, March 14th, 2011
The first call to Aflac Chairman and CEO Dan Amos came at 5 a.m. Friday. Despite the time and the nature of the call, he took it in relative stride.
"You can't be shocked that there's an earthquake in Japan," he said hours later, after the devastating impact of a tsunami on the island nation had become clear.
Among Georgia companies with operations in Japan, Columbus-based Aflac has perhaps the most at stake. It does three-quarters of its business there and is the largest insurer in Japan in terms of the number of policies in force, covering one in four households.
