secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AMERISAFE INC (AMSF)
CIK:        0001018979
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-10-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001157523-22-001401
Event type: dividend
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

AMERISAFE Q3 operating EPS $0.73; declares special dividend of $4.00/share
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- Q3 net income $11.4M ($0.59 diluted EPS), operating net income $14.1M ($0.73 operating EPS).
- Net combined ratio 85.4% vs 71.5% a year ago; underwriting profit down 49% to $9.8M.
- Board declares special cash dividend of $4.00 per share, payable Dec 16 to record Dec 2; also regular $0.31 quarterly dividend.
- Book value per share $19.47, down 21.5% YoY; repurchased 139,559 shares for $6.5M in Q3.
- Net investment income up 15.4% to $7.0M; favorable prior-year loss development of $10.4M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018979/000115752322001401/0001157523-22-001401-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018979/000115752322001401/a52953282.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-22-001401

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