# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001018979
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-137799
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 8489
**Document Hash:** 329e3e90f618477bc80ea69f1f94d061
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-137799.hdr.sgml**: 20250609

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-137799

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250606

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250609

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250609

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** AMERISAFE INC
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001018979
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 752069407
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** TX
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-12251
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251033915

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 2301 HIGHWAY 190 WEST
- **CITY:** DERIDDER
- **STATE:** LA
- **ZIP:** 70634
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 337-463-9052

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 2301 HIGHWAY 190 WEST
- **CITY:** DERIDDER
- **STATE:** LA
- **ZIP:** 70634

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#### UNITED STATES

#### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

### FORM 8-K

#### CURRENT REPORT

#### Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

#### Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): **June 6, 2025**

### AMERISAFE, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

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| **Texas** | **001-12251** | **75-2069407** |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction<br>of Incorporation) | (Commission<br>File Number) | (IRS Employer<br>Identification No.) |

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#### 2301 Highway 190 West

#### DeRidder, Louisiana 70634
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: **(337) 463-9052**

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the Registrant under any of the following provisions (*see* General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading<br>Symbol(s)** | **Name of each<br>exchange**<br> **on which registered** |
|  Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share | AMSF | Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

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 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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#### Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On June 6, 2025, AMERISAFE, Inc. (the "Company") held its 2025 annual meeting of shareholders (the "2025 Annual Meeting"). At the 2025 Annual Meeting, as further described below under Item 5.07 of this Current Report on Form 8-K (this "Report"), the Company's shareholders approved an amendment to the Company's Non-Employee Director Restricted Stock Plan (as amended, the "Director Plan") in part to increase the number of shares of the Company's common stock available for issuance thereunder by 50,000 shares and to increase the maximum annual target value of restricted stock that may be granted to each non-employee director to $200,000. Other than the foregoing, the terms of the Director Plan remain substantially the same. The Director Plan is administered by the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") and provides for automatic grants of restricted stock to the Company's non-employee directors on an annual basis and upon a non-employee director's initial appointment to the Board.

A more detailed description of the principal features of the Director Plan can be found under Proposal 4 in the Company's proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 30, 2025 (the "2025 Proxy Statement"). The foregoing description of the Director Plan is not complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of such plan, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

#### Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
The Company held the 2025 Annual Meeting on June 6, 2025 at the Company's corporate headquarters in DeRidder, Louisiana. All matters submitted for approval by the Company's shareholders, as described in the 2025 Proxy Statement, were approved at the 2025 Annual Meeting.

Of the 19,050,315 shares of the Company's common stock outstanding as of the 2025 Annual Meeting record date on April 17, 2025, 18,023,934 shares were represented in person or by proxy at the 2025 Annual Meeting. The inspector of election reported the final vote of the shareholders as follows:

1. *Election of directors*. The following director nominees were elected for terms expiring at the Company's 2028 annual meeting of shareholders:

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| <u>Name</u> | <u>Votes For</u> | <u>Votes Withheld</u> | <u>Broker Non-Votes</u> |
|  Teri G. Fontenot | 17022091 | 486703 | 515140 |
|  Billy B. Greer | 16942054 | 566740 | 515140 |
|  Jared A. Morris | 15429856 | 2078938 | 515140 |

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2. *Advisory vote to approve the Company's compensation of its named executive officers*. The compensation of the Company's named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company's 2025 proxy statement under "Executive Compensation" and discussed under "Compensation Discussion and Analysis," was approved on an advisory basis.

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| <u>Votes For</u> | <u>Votes Against</u> | <u>Abstentions</u> | <u>Broker Non-Votes</u> |
| 16780464 | 726212 | 2118 | 515140 |

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3. *Ratification of appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2025*. The appointment of Ernst & Young was ratified.

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| <u>Votes For</u> | <u>Votes Against</u> | <u>Abstentions</u> |
| 17690631 | 331505 | 1798 |

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4. *Approval of an amendment to the Company's Non-Employee Director Restricted Stock Plan to increase the number of authorized shares issuable under the Plan*. The amendment to the Company's Non-Employee Director Restricted Stock Plan was approved.

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| <u>Votes For</u> | <u>Votes Against</u> | <u>Abstentions</u> | <u>Broker Non-Votes</u> |
| 17204784 | 302177 | 1833 | 515140 |

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#### Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits

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| Exhibit Number  | Description |
| 10.1 | [AMERISAFE, Inc. 2025 Non-Employee Director Restricted Stock Plan (incorporated by reference to Appendix A to the Company's Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed April 30, 2025)](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1018979/000095017025060574/amsf-20250429.htm) |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |

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#### SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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| AMERISAFE, INC. | AMERISAFE, INC. |
|  By: | /s/ Kathryn H. Shirley |
|  | Kathryn H. Shirley |
|  | Executive Vice President, |
|  | Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary |

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Date: June 9, 2025