| American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. is a specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter with United States insurance and international reinsurance operations offering solutions for specialty risks. Through the Company's domestic operating subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company markets and underwrites a variety of specialty insurance products to small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. It operates in two segments: insurance operations and other. Its insurance operations consists of three specialty divisions: excess and surplus lines (E&S), alternative risks transfer (ART) and assumed reinsurance. Its Other segment includes lines of business that it has placed in run-off, such as workers' compensation, excess liability insurance for municipalities, other commercial lines, real estate and other ancillary product lines. In March 2012, the Company announced its formation of American Safety UK, Ltd. |