secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AMERISAFE INC (AMSF)
CIK:        0001018979
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001157523-22-000488
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

AMERISAFE Q1 net income down 10% to $17.3M; operating EPS up 8% to $0.82
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- Net premiums earned $67.6M (-4.5% YoY); net combined ratio improved to 80.1% from 84.6%.
- Diluted EPS $0.89 vs $0.99; operating EPS $0.82 vs $0.76 (7.9% increase).
- Underwriting profit rose 23.8% to $13.5M; expense ratio fell to 22.4% from 26.8%.
- Board declared $0.31 quarterly dividend (6.9% increase vs 2021); $22.9M repurchase authorization left.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018979/000115752322000488/0001157523-22-000488-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018979/000115752322000488/a52699352.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-22-000488

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