Amerisafe, Inc. is a specialty provider of workers' compensation insurance, which markets & underwrites its insurance through subsidiaries. Workers' compensation insurance covers statutorily prescribed benefits that employers are obligated to provide to employees injured in the course & scope of their employment. The company focuses on providing coverage to small to mid-sized employers engaged in hazardous industries, principally construction, trucking, logging, agriculture, oil & gas, maritime and sawmills. Its workers' compensation insurance policies provide benefits to injured employees primarily for temporary or permanent disability, death, medical and hospital expenses. Amerisafe operates through 3 insurance subsidiaries: American Interstate Insurance Company of Nebraska & Texas and Silver Oak Casualty in Louisiana. Besides its voluntary workers' compensation business, the company underwrites workers' compensation policies for employers & assumes reinsurance premiums from mandatory pooling arrangements.