$8.4 billion Assurant, a provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, has appointed Stephen Gauster senior vice president and chief corporate counsel effective immediately.

Before joining Assurant, Gauster was vice president, corporate counsel, and assistant secretary of Prudential Financial, and general counsel and secretary of Prudential Funding, LLC.

He will report to Bart Schwartz, Assurant’s executive vice president and chief legal officer, and will oversee Assurant’s public company legal work, its risk-management function, and its corporate law practice group.