Assurant (AIZ) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 13, 2021

Registration No. 333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ASSURANT, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Assurant, Inc. 2017 Long Term Equity Incentive Plan, as amended

(Full title of the plan)

Jay E. Rosenblum

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer

Assurant, Inc.

28 Liberty Street, 41st Floor

New York, New York 10005

(212) 859-7000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 900,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”), of Assurant, Inc. (the “Company”) to be issued pursuant to the grant or exercise of awards under the Assurant, Inc. 2017 Long Term Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, which was further amended on May 13, 2021 to increase the available share reserve thereunder by 900,000 shares of Common Stock (as amended, the “Plan”). The shares of Common Stock registered hereby are of the same class as the 1,500,000 shares of Common Stock previously registered on an effective Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 12, 2017 (File No. 333-217940) (the “2017 Registration Statement”) and the 550,000 shares of Common Stock previously registered on an effective Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on May 8, 2019 (File No. 333-231274) (the “2019 Registration Statement” and, together with the 2017 Registration Statement, the Existing Registration Statements) and the contents of the Existing Registration Statements are incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this Registration Statement, except as amended hereby.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has given a legal opinion as to the validity of the securities being registered.

The following exhibits are filed with this Registration Statement:

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant, Assurant, Inc., certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on May 13, 2021.

Exhibit 24.1

ASSURANT, INC.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned directors of Assurant, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby constitute and appoint Alan B. Colberg, Richard S. Dziadzio, Jay E. Rosenblum and Dimitry DiRienzo, and each of them severally, the individual’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with power to act with or without the other, and with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his or her substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on May 13, 2021.