Assurant

Assurant, Inc.
FormerlyFortis, Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustryInsurance
Founded1892; 132 years ago (1892)
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Keith W. Demmings
(President & CEO)[1]
Products
ServicesRisk management
RevenueIncrease US$11.1 billion (2023)
Increase US$807 million (2023)
Increase US$643 million (2023)
Total assetsIncrease US$33.6 billion (2023)
Total equityIncrease US$4.81 billion (2023)
Number of employees
c. 13,600 (December 2023)
Websiteassurant.com
Footnotes / references
[2]

Assurant, Inc. is a global provider of risk management products and services[3] with headquarters in Atlanta.[2] Its businesses provide a diverse set of specialty, niche-market insurance products in the property, casualty, extended device protection, and preneed insurance sectors. The company's main operating segments are Global Housing and Global Lifestyle.[2]

The company, formerly known as Fortis, Inc., was spun off from Dutch and Belgian financial-services company Fortis Insurance N.V. in 2004. The company's initial public offering on Feb. 5, 2004 at $1.76 billion was the fourth largest that year. In connection with the public offering, the company changed its name to Assurant, Inc.[4][5]

Assurant is 325 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest companies in the United States by revenue as of 2022.[6]

  1. ^ "Management Committee, President and CEO Keith Demmings".
  2. ^ a b c "Assurant, Inc. 2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 15 February 2022.
  3. ^ Frankel, Daniel. "Comcast chooses Assurant for mobile phone protection plans | FierceCable". www.fiercecable.com. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Dutch insurer Amev is buying VSB Groep NV bank for..." tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
  5. ^ Gelsi, Steve. "Assurant's debut leads IPO quintet". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
  6. ^ "Assurant". Fortune. Retrieved 2022-06-04.