Assurant, Inc. is a global provider of risk management products and services[3] with headquarters in Atlanta.

[6] Assurant can trace its roots back to the founding of the La Crosse Mutual Aid Association, which was established to sell disability insurance in Wisconsin in the early 1890s.

[19][20][21] Assurant began to wind down its major medical operations and did not participate in the next Affordable Care Act open enrollment period beginning in November 2015.

[23] Sun Life Financial agreed to acquire Assurant Employee Benefits for $940 million in September 2015,[24][23] and closed the sale in March 2016.

In September 2009, the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a lower court's verdict that the firm (then known as "Fortis") wrongly revoked the health insurance policy of a holder who had contracted HIV subsequent to getting an insurance policy, and ordered the firm to pay $10 million to the plaintiff.

[30] In February 2010, a Boulder, Colorado jury found that Assurant Health had breached its contract with a woman who was severely injured in a hit-and-run accident, and awarded her $183,551 for medical bills and approximately $37.1 million in punitive damages.