News Room

July 18, 2005

Assurant Names Gregory DeChurch Senior Vice President, General Counsel for Solutions and Specialty Property Businesses

ATLANTA/MIAMI: Assurant, Inc. ("Assurant") (NYSE: AIZ), a premier provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, announced that Gregory J. DeChurch of Davie, Fla. has been named senior vice president and general counsel for the Assurant Solutions and Assurant Specialty Property businesses.

The Miami-based attorney formerly served as a vice president and managing attorney in the Assurant Solutions law department, providing legal services to the Property Solutions, Agency-based Specialty Property and Personal Property Protection businesses. DeChurch joined the company as staff counsel in 1994 and was promoted to senior counsel in 1996.

DeChurch succeeds Jerome A. Atkinson, who was recently named executive vice president and chief compliance officer for Assurant.

Before joining the company, DeChurch was a law associate with the Miami firm of Nicklaus, Valle, Craig & Wicks. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor of business arts degree and earned his juris doctor degree from the University of Florida College of Law. He is a member of the Florida bar and the business law and tax sections of the Florida State Bar Association.

Assurant Solutions and Assurant Specialty Property companies develop, underwrite and market specialty insurance, extended service contracts and other risk management solutions in collaborative relationships with leading financial institutions, retailers, manufactured housing and automobile dealers, utilities and other entities. They serve clients and their customers throughout North America, the Caribbean and selected countries in South America and Europe.

Assurant Solutions and Assurant Specialty Property are part of Assurant, a premier provider of specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected other markets. Assurant trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AIZ.

Media contact:

James A. Sykes
Director, Corporate Communications
260 Interstate N. Circle, SE
Atlanta, Ga. 30339-2110
Telephone: 770.763.1015
FAX: 770.859.4325
E-mail: james.sykes@assurant.com