American Integrity Insurance Group, Inc.AII
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Tommy McJoyntAnalyst

Our next fireside chat here today is with American Integrity, and we are happy to be joined by Bob Ritchie, Jon Ritchie, and Brian Foley. Bob, can I turn it over to you to make any introductory remarks?

Bob RitchieFounder, CEO, and Director

Happy to. Thank you for the opportunity, and thanks for listening to our story. Our story is not unique, and Florida is not unique. Florida is rebellious sometimes, and so for almost 20 years we have been building this company. I can tell you it is not proof of concept. It is real. So much so that other states are looking at our successes and how maybe they can replicate it. Who would have thought that? So we have never had a problem with Mother Nature. Some people will tell you that we have. We have not. Reinsurance ebbs and flows, both capacity and pricing. What has kept us up at night and what created so many failures was the litigation crisis. Matter of fact, we were not in the insurance business. We were in the lawsuit management business. That is all different. And we are growing successfully. We are 16 months in as a publicly traded company.

Bob RitchieFounder, CEO, and Director

I am not here to tell you that we have learned everything. I am to tell you we are serious students for investors as we grow this company responsibly. And we are just looking forward to telling our story. Excuse me. Go ahead. Yeah.

Tommy McJoyntAnalyst

I think kind of a good area to start is probably the most common question and, frankly, concern that we get around Florida, is around the competitive environment. I think everyone, the consensus view is the reforms are working.

Tommy McJoyntAnalyst

Yep. The carriers in Florida are printing very strong returns.

Tommy McJoyntAnalyst

Reinsurance pricing is trending favorably. Why does this not invite more competition, perhaps fears of prices getting cut, national carriers coming back into Florida? Just speak about the competitive environment.

Bob RitchieFounder, CEO, and Director

There's a lot to unpack there, but thank you for that. First and foremost, third most populous state. We need more, not less. Even today, Tommy, as I look at the cadre of competition, first and foremost, Florida is not unique, but especially different compared to, say, California. I mentioned this last year in this very room. Our commissioner is appointed, not elected. That's a game changer. Mike Yaworsky, who's been on the job now, what, Jon, about 3 years. In my view, we had a great woman, Kevin McCarty. Guy before Yaworsky, not so much. Yaworsky's been responsible. He's done his job as an advocate, of course, for the consumer, but also for a healthy market. Tommy, I am not seeing any evidence of any rate filings, both new companies and existing, where buying business can be an option for Florida.

Bob RitchieFounder, CEO, and Director

As we look at the competitive landscape, look, we got a lot of great competition, but the models are different. We're fortunate because, almost 20 years into this, we've got deep relationships. Back to a few more of your question points. I think the inference is, will margins go out the window because competition becomes reckless? I don't see that. I do not see that in the short or medium term. Later, we can talk about the confidence I've got in Tallahassee and why these reforms are real. Competition is not something that keeps American Integrity up at night. We have two rules. They're very simple in insurance. God, they're hard. If you write a piece of business, make a profit, underwriting profit, not investment, and offer to renew it. So pick the right ones. This marketplace is in an exceptional place.

Bob RitchieFounder, CEO, and Director

Matter of fact, I don't believe there's never been a better time, even with rates coming down, with reinsurers or primary insurers or investors, to look at Florida. I don't say that because it's a calm season. No, the weather's not the problem. Competition is also not the problem.

Tommy McJoyntAnalyst

Can you talk a little bit about the phenomenon for why Florida is dominated by specialists rather than national carriers?

Bob RitchieFounder, CEO, and Director

Sure. You do not want to hear just from me. Jon, will you take that?

Jon RitchiePresident

Yeah. Look, national carriers are, rightfully so, beholden to national AM Best standards, and Florida does not get a carve-out. That is why specialty carriers like American Integrity, amongst others, are able to exist in the marketplace. However, they want the auto, of course, within the state of Florida. They just do not want the homeowners risk, and that is a channel for us from a distribution perspective. We write with virtually every national carrier that actively writes auto insurance in Florida, and there are no indications that they are changing their flavor or their take on Florida property, and particularly homeowners risk, in terms of the commentary we are hearing from them privately and then, of course, what we are hearing publicly.

Jon RitchiePresident

We do believe from a national carrier perspective, carving out State Farm, who does write within the state of Florida with their pup company, we feel like the moat is pretty wide and deep in terms of the protection of the specialist role within Florida.

Tommy McJoyntAnalyst

Yeah. An important element of your story that I think about often is the organic growth opportunity. The Citizens takeouts have largely played out when you look at the number of policies still there. Let's talk about a couple of the verticals that you guys are interested in growing in, and we'll start off with the tri-county area.

Tommy McJoyntAnalyst

Yes. That region was sort of off limits for you Yes for a number of years.

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