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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-009660 to KINGSTONE COMPANIES, INC. (KINS) (CIK 0000033992) (KINS)

KINGSTONE COMPANIES, INC. (KINS) (CIK 0000033992)
Date: Aug. 23, 2024 · CIK: 0000033992 · Accession: 0000000000-24-009660

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File numbers found in text: 000-01665

Date
August 23, 2024
Author
Office of Finance
Form
UPLOAD
Company
KINGSTONE COMPANIES, INC. (KINS) (CIK 0000033992)

Letter

August 23, 2024 Jennifer Gravelle Chief Financial Officer Kingstone Companies, Inc. 15 Joys Lane Kingston, NY 12401 Re:Kingstone Companies, Inc. Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023 File No. 000-01665 Dear Jennifer Gravelle: We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comments. Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023 Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Consolidated Results of Operations, page 44 1.We note your disclosure of an underlying loss ratio on page 49, as well as your disclosure of the loss ratio excluding the effect of catastrophes, net underwriting expense ratio excluding the effect of catastrophes, and net combined ratio excluding the effect of catastrophes on pages 56-57. These measures appear to represent non-GAAP financial measures given that they exclude amounts that are included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. We also note that, in your earnings release included as Exhibit 99.1 to the Form 8-K filed on August 12, 2024, you present an underlying loss ratio which is labeled as a non-GAAP financial measure. Please revise your future periodic filings to clearly label and identify these measures as non-GAAP financial measures and provide all of the relevant disclosures required by Item 10(e)(1) of Regulation S-K.

August 23, 2024 Page 2 Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Insurance Underwriting Business on a Standalone Basis, page 55 2.We note your disclosure of an income statement, as well as key measures, presented for your insurance underwriting business on a standalone basis. Your presentation of net loss for the insurance business on a standalone basis appears to represent a non-GAAP financial measure given that it excludes amounts that are included in your consolidated net loss as disclosed on page F-5, the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Further, your presentation on page 55 appears to constitute a non-GAAP income statement. Please note that the presentation of a full non- GAAP income statement may place undue prominence on the non-GAAP information. Please remove this presentation in your future filings and refer to Question 102.10(c) of the Non-GAAP Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations for guidance. Additionally, to the extent that you intend to present your net loss for the insurance underwriting business on a standalone basis in future filings, please revise your disclosure to clearly label and identify this measure, as well as any other financial measures on this basis which have non-GAAP adjustments, as a non-GAAP financial measure and provide all of the relevant disclosures required by Item 10(e)(1) of Regulation S-K. Consolidated Balance Sheets, page F-4 3.Please revise future periodic filings to separately classify on your balance sheet the amount of debt that is considered short-term and long-term. Please refer to Item 7-03 of Regulation S-X. In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Please contact Katharine Garrett at 202-551-2332 or William Schroeder at 202-551-3294 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Finance

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August 23, 2024
Jennifer Gravelle
Chief Financial Officer
Kingstone Companies, Inc.
15 Joys Lane
Kingston, NY 12401
Re:Kingstone Companies, Inc.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023
File No. 000-01665
Dear Jennifer Gravelle:
            We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments.
            Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
            After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Consolidated Results of Operations, page 44
1.We note your disclosure of an underlying loss ratio on page 49, as well as your disclosure
of the loss ratio excluding the effect of catastrophes, net underwriting expense ratio
excluding the effect of catastrophes, and net combined ratio excluding the effect of
catastrophes on pages 56-57. These measures appear to represent non-GAAP financial
measures given that they exclude amounts that are included in the most directly
comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. We also note
that, in your earnings release included as Exhibit 99.1 to the Form 8-K filed on August 12,
2024, you present an underlying loss ratio which is labeled as a non-GAAP financial
measure. Please revise your future periodic filings to clearly label and identify these
measures as non-GAAP financial measures and provide all of the relevant disclosures
required by Item 10(e)(1) of Regulation S-K.

August 23, 2024
Page 2
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Insurance Underwriting Business on a Standalone Basis, page 55
2.We note your disclosure of an income statement, as well as key measures, presented for
your insurance underwriting business on a standalone basis. Your presentation of net loss
for the insurance business on a standalone basis appears to represent a non-GAAP
financial measure given that it excludes amounts that are included in your consolidated
net loss as disclosed on page F-5, the most directly comparable measure calculated and
presented in accordance with GAAP. Further, your presentation on page 55 appears to
constitute a non-GAAP income statement. Please note that the presentation of a full non-
GAAP income statement may place undue prominence on the non-GAAP information.
Please remove this presentation in your future filings and refer to Question 102.10(c) of
the Non-GAAP Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations for guidance. Additionally, to
the extent that you intend to present your net loss for the insurance underwriting business
on a standalone basis in future filings, please revise your disclosure to clearly label and
identify this measure, as well as any other financial measures on this basis which have
non-GAAP adjustments, as a non-GAAP financial measure and provide all of the relevant
disclosures required by Item 10(e)(1) of Regulation S-K.
Consolidated Balance Sheets, page F-4
3.Please revise future periodic filings to separately classify on your balance sheet the
amount of debt that is considered short-term and long-term. Please refer to Item 7-03 of
Regulation S-X.
            In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
            Please contact Katharine Garrett at 202-551-2332 or William Schroeder at 202-551-3294
with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Finance