Exhibit 24.1

                               POWERS OF ATTORNEY

      KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints Mark R. Anderson, C. Allen Bradley, Jr., Geoffrey R.
Banta and Arthur L. Hunt, and each of them, the true and lawful attorney or
attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him
and in his name, place and stead, to sign on his behalf as a director or officer
or both, as the case may be, of AMERISAFE, Inc. (the "Corporation") a
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (and any abbreviated registration statement
relating thereto permitted pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act")), for the purpose of registering under
the Securities Act shares of the Corporation's common stock, par value $0.01 per
share, and to sign any or all amendments and any or all post-effective
amendments to such Registration Statement (and any such abbreviated registration
statement) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents
in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting
unto said attorney or attorneys-in-fact, and each of them with or without the
others, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorney or attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

      /s/ Mark R. Anderson                      /s/  Sean M. Traynor
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      Mark R. Anderson                          Sean M. Traynor

      /s/ C. Allen Bradley, Jr.                 /s/  Paul B. Queally
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      C. Allen Bradley, Jr.                     Paul B. Queally

      /s/ Geoffrey R. Banta
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      Geoffrey R. Banta

Dated:  August 1, 2005