Company: AIZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001267238-25-000018
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Company: ASSURANT, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 of candidates is included in the pool of qualified candidates from which Board nominees are chosen.

Stockholder Recommendations for Director Candidates

The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee considers candidates recommended by our stockholders for nomination for election to the Board. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee applies the same director qualifications criteria described above for a candidate recommended by a stockholder. A stockholder who wishes to recommend a candidate for nomination to the Board must submit such recommendation in writing to the Corporate Secretary at Assurant, Inc., 260 Interstate North Circle SE, Atlanta, GA 30339 and via email to corporatesecretary@assurant.com. To submit a nomination for the election of directors, stockholders must provide a written notice in accordance with our by-laws. See “Stockholder Proposals and Director Nominations” on page 104.

### DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
In compliance with the listing standards applicable to Assurant under the NYSE Listed Company Manual, the Board has adopted categorical standards to assist in evaluating the independence of the Company’s directors. They are included in our Corporate Governance Guidelines available under the “Corporate Governance” subsection of the “Investor Relations” section of our website at http://ir.assurant.com .

Applying the director independence standards, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Board have affirmatively determined that Mses. Rosen, Granat, Edelman and Perry and Messrs. Basu, Carter, Redzic, Reilly, Warren, Alves and Jackson are independent of the Company and its management. In addition, they determined that each member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation and Talent Committee is independent of the Company and its management under the applicable criteria for those committees.

In conducting its annual director independence determination, the Board considered transactions or relationships that the Company engaged or engages in with companies for which our independent directors serve as officers or directors, or with which these directors have certain other relationships, and determined that there were no such transactions that were material to the Company or in which any such director had a material interest. Specifically, the Board considered the following ordinary course business transactions and relationships:

• The Company owns immaterial amounts of publicly-traded bonds of companies with which Messrs. Carter, Redzic, Warren and Alves and Ms. Granat are affiliated as officers or directors.

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• Mses. Edelman, Granat, Perry