Kingstone Companies

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Kingstone Companies, Inc., headquartered in Kingston, New York, provides property and casualty insurance products through its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company. It places contracts with the third-party licensed premium finance company through its subsidiary Payments, Inc, a NYS licensed Insurance Premium Finance Company. Kingstone Insurance Company was ranked #1 of the 81 insurers rated by the Professional Insurance Agents Association in its 2010 Company Performance Survey. The company sells insurance products include personal lines of insurance products, general liability policies commercial automobile policies and so on through independent retail and wholesale agents and brokers.

Kingstone Companies has been a target of short sellers for a while. The current short interest of 2.54% is roughly at the average of the last 12 months (3.34%).