Assurant, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides specialized insurance products and related services in North America and internationally. Its Assurant Solutions segment offers domestic and international extended service contracts and warranties with coverage on mobile phones, personal computers, consumer electronics, appliances, automobiles, and recreational vehicles; preneed life insurance to address funeral costs at death; and international credit insurance that offers protection from life events and uncertainties that arise in purchasing and borrowing transactions. The company's Assurant Specialty Property segment offers lender-placed and voluntary homeowners insurance, lender-placed and voluntary manufactured housing insurance, and lender-placed flood and multi-family housing insurance products. Its Assurant Health segment offers major medical insurance, short-term medical insurance, and limited benefit coverage to individuals and families; and medical insurance to small employer groups. The company's Assurant Employee Benefits segment offers group disability, dental, vision, life, and supplemental products, as well as individual dental products. It also reinsures disability and life products. The company distributes its insurance products and services through various distribution channels, including independent employee benefits specialists, brokers, managing general agents, life agents, financial institutions, mortgage lenders and servicers, retailers, funeral homes, association groups, and other third-party marketing organizations. Assurant, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in New York, New York.