Statutory Accounting and Regulation

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2025

STATUTORY ACCOUNTING AND REGULATION

The insurance industry is heavily regulated. State laws and regulations, as well as national regulatory agency requirements, govern the operations of all insurers such as the Company's insurance subsidiary. The various laws and regulations require that insurers maintain minimum amounts of statutory surplus and risk-based capital, restrict insurers' ability to pay dividends, specify allowable investment types and investment mixes, and subject insurers to assessments. AmCoastal is domiciled and operates in Florida and at March 31, 2025, and during the three months then ended, met all regulatory requirements of the state.

During 2023, the Company received a multi-year Emergency Assessment notice from the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association ("FIGA"). This assessment will be 1.0% on direct written premiums of all covered lines of business in Florida beginning October 1, 2023 through September 20, 2025 to cover the cost of insurance companies facing insolvency.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners ("NAIC") has Risk-Based Capital ("RBC") guidelines for insurance companies that are designed to assess capital adequacy and to raise the level of protection that statutory surplus provides for policyholders. Most states, including Florida, have enacted statutory requirements adopting the NAIC RBC guidelines, and insurers having less statutory surplus than required will be subject to varying degrees of regulatory action, depending on the level of capital inadequacy. State insurance regulatory authorities could require an insurer to cease operations in the event the insurer fails to maintain the required statutory capital.

The state laws of Florida permit an insurer to pay dividends or make distributions out of that part of statutory surplus derived from net operating profit and net realized capital gains. The state laws further provide calculations to determine the amount of dividends or distributions that can be made without the prior approval of the insurance regulatory authorities in those states and the amount of dividends or distributions that would require prior approval of the insurance regulatory authorities in those states. Statutory RBC requirements may further restrict the Company's insurance subsidiary's ability to pay dividends or make distributions if the amount of the intended dividend or distribution would cause statutory surplus to fall below minimum RBC requirements.

The Company's insurance subsidiary must file with the various insurance regulatory authorities an “Annual Statement” which reports, among other items, statutory net income and surplus as regards policyholders, which is called stockholders' equity under GAAP. The table below details the statutory net income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 for AmCoastal.


	Three Months Ended March 31,
		2025		2024
Net Income		$	18,292	$	24,929

The Company's insurance subsidiary must maintain capital and surplus ratios or balances as determined by the regulatory authority of the state in which it is domiciled. At March 31, 2025, the Company met these requirements. The table below details the amount of surplus as regards policyholders for AmCoastal at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.


	March 31, 2025	December 31, 2024
Surplus as regards policyholders	245,891	230,001