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December 12 , 2008

Assurant Employee Benefits launches comprehensive service platform

Assurant Works focuses on customer need

Kansas City, Mo. (December 12, 2008) – Strengthening its commitment to providing outstanding customer service, Assurant Employee Benefits announces the launch of its comprehensive service platform, Assurant Works. Assurant Works incorporates a full complement of enhancements designed to meet the needs of customers. It particularly benefits those purchasing voluntary (employee-paid) employee benefits.

Among the changes accompanying the introduction are two new roles created to enhance the company’s customer experience. Employee Benefit Advisors and Employee Benefit Specialists each have responsibility for key customer contacts throughout the voluntary benefits process, from facilitating enrollment meetings to renewals.

The individuals serving in the two new roles will be the primary users of Assurant Employee Benefits’ new Worksite Enrollment tool. This web-based tool uses the most up-to-date technology and employer census data to provide pre-payroll deduction reports to employers more quickly following enrollments for voluntary employee benefits.

Worksite Enrollment allows systematic capture of employee information from an electronic census and easy entry of benefit elections to create a Voluntary Deduction Report (VDR). That report enables the employer to determine how much to deduct from employees’ paychecks earlier in the enrollment process.

The additions and enhancements included with Assurant Works are the latest examples of Assurant Employee Benefits’ ongoing commitment to strengthening its position as a leader in voluntary employee benefits. The company is focused on tools, services and products that will provide customers a simple, accurate and convenient voluntary benefits experience.

Assurant Employee Benefits specializes in quality employee benefits and services, including long-term and short-term disability, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, dental coverage, and disability reinsurance management services. Assurant Employee Benefits also offers voluntary (employee-paid) disability, life, and dental plans.

Products and services marketed by Assurant Employee Benefits are underwritten or provided by Union Security Insurance Company or an affiliated prepaid dental company. In New York, group insurance products and services are marketed by Assurant Employee Benefits and underwritten by Union Security Life Insurance Company of New York, which is licensed in New York and has its principal place of business in Syracuse, New York. Plans contain limitations and exclusions. Underwriting flexibility allows Assurant Employee Benefits to market tailor-made benefit plans for groups of most any size. Assurant Employee Benefits is located in Kansas City, Missouri.

Assurant Employee Benefits is part of Assurant, a premier provider of specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected international markets. Its four key businesses – Assurant Solutions; Assurant Specialty Property; Assurant Health; and Assurant Employee Benefits – have partnered with clients who are leaders in their industries and have built leadership positions in a number of specialty insurance market segments worldwide.

Assurant, a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500, is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AIZ. Assurant has over $25 billion in assets and $7 billion in annual revenue (www.assurant.com).

For more information contact:

Jacquie Hill
Assurant Employee Benefits
816.881.8968
or jacquie.hill@assurant.com