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Assurant celebrates five years as a public company.
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| 2008 |
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Assurant strengthens leadership position in service contract market by acquiring GE Consumer and Industrial’s Warranty Management Group.
Assurant Health and State Farm renew national distribution alliance.
Assurant expands client portfolio and servicing capabilities in wireless service contract marketplace by acquiring Signal Holdings, LLC.
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| 2007 |
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Assurant Expands Distribution in UK through acquisitions of Swansure and Centrepoint Insurance.
Assurant Extends Exlclusive Distribution Agreement with SCI to 2013; Completes acquisition of Mayflower National Life Insurance Company.
Assurant, Inc. (AIZ) added to S&P 500 stock index.
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| 2006 |
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Assurant strengthens leadership position in creditor-placed homeowners by acquiring Safeco Financial Institution Solutions.
Assurant Employee Benefits announces larger combined dental PPO network through network access agreement with Aetna.
Assurant completes the sale of its equity interest in Private Health Care Systems, Inc. (PHCS).
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| 2005 |
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Fortis takes steps to divest its remaining interest in Assurant through secondary offering of common stock.
Assurant Solutions continues international growth by expanding its business operations into Mexico.
Acquisition of Recreational Finance, LLC, developer of finance and insurance technology for RV market.
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| 2004 |
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Assurant is born when Fortis, Inc. completes
its initial public offering process and begins to trade on the
New York Stock Exchange.
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| 2003 |
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Fortis announces its intention to sell Fortis,
Inc. via an initial public offering. Fortis, Inc. begins
process of becoming Assurant -- a publicly traded
company.
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| 2001 |
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Acquisition of Protective Life’s indemnity dental
business and prepaid dental subsidiaries, positioning Assurant
Employee Benefits as the leader in the voluntary (employee-paid)
dental benefits market.
Fortis Financial Group, the company’s
variable life insurance and annuity businesses and its
proprietary mutual fund complex, is sold when variable products outgrow
their specialty insurance status.
Acquisition of CORE,
INC., a leading provider of employee absence management
and disability reinsurance management services.
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| 2000 |
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Acquisition of American Memorial Life Insurance Company (now part of Assurant Preneed) expands the company's market share and management expertise in the preneed funeral insurance market.
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| 1999 |
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American Bankers Insurance Group in
Miami, Florida, one of the two leading U.S. credit-related
insurers, is acquired. American Bankers is combined with American Security
Group to form Assurant Group (now Assurant
Solutions).
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| 1998 |
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Acquisition of Insureco Inc., a mortgage market managing
general agency and service provider, strengthening American
Security Group (now Assurant
Solutions).
Pierce National Life Insurance, a U.S. funeral insurance
company, is acquired strengthening Assurant Preneed.
John Alden Financial Corporation, an independent provider
of group health insurance and health-care services, is acquired,
making Assurant Health
the leading independent carrier in the small group health-care
market.
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| 1992 |
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Time Insurance Company (now Assurant
Health) celebrates its 100th birthday.
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| 1991 |
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Acquisition of Mutual Benefit Life Group division (now Assurant Employee Benefits).
AMEV Holdings is renamed Fortis, Inc. (now Assurant)
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| 1990 |
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AMEV/VSB of the Netherlands and AG, Belgium’s biggest
insurer, join forces in the first cross-border European merger
in the financial sector, creating Fortis. Fortis is a Latin
word meaning "strong, steadfast and determined."
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| 1984 |
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Acquisition of Western Life, creating Fortis Financial Group.
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| 1980 |
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Acqusition of Interfinancial, composed of American Security
Group (now Assurant Solutions)
and United Family Life (now Assurant
Preneed).
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| 1977 |
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N.V. AMEV of the Netherlands makes its first acquisition in
the U.S., Time Insurance Company (now Assurant
Health), via the U.S. holding company AMEV Holdings, Inc.
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