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Issuer:     AMERISAFE INC (AMSF)
CIK:        0001018979
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-10-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-23-263212
Event type: dividend
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

AMERISAFE Q3 net income down 12% to $10M; declares $3.50 special dividend
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- Net income $9.96M ($0.52 diluted EPS) vs $11.36M ($0.59) in Q3 2022, down 12.3%.
- Gross premiums written up 3.9% to $70.8M; net combined ratio 90.6% vs 85.4% last year.
- Special cash dividend of $3.50/share declared, payable Dec 15 to holders of record Dec 1.
- Regular quarterly dividend $0.34/share, up 9.7% from prior year.
- Book value per share $17.51, up 5.7% from year-end 2022.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018979/000119312523263212/0001193125-23-263212-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018979/000119312523263212/d558908d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-263212

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