Stock Options and Restricted Stock	3 Months Ended
Stock Options and Restricted Stock	Mar. 31, 2014
Disclosure Of Compensation Related Costs Sharebased Payments [Abstract]
Stock Options and Restricted Stock	Note 2. Stock Options and Restricted Stock The Company has three equity incentive plans: the AMERISAFE 2005 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2005 Incentive Plan”), the AMERISAFE 2010 Non-Employee Director Restricted Stock Plan (the “2010 Restricted Stock Plan”) and the AMERISAFE 2012 Equity and Incentive Compensation Plan (the “2012 Incentive Plan”). See Note 13 to our consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 for additional information regarding the Company’s incentive plans. In March 2013, the Company granted 4,312 shares of restricted common stock to four executive officers. The awards were made pursuant to the Company’s 2012 Incentive Plan. During the three months ended March 31, 2014, options to purchase 61,167 shares of common stock were exercised. During the three months ended March 31, 2013, options to purchase 95,000 shares of common stock were exercised. In connection with these exercises, the Company received $0.6 million of stock option proceeds in the first three months of 2014 and $0.9 million of stock option proceeds in the same period in 2013. The Company recognized share-based compensation expense of $0.6 million and $0.3 million in the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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