Press Release|Insurance

KBRA Affirms Rating for American Traditions Insurance Company

12 Dec 2025   |   New York

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KBRA affirms the BBB insurance financial strength rating (IFSR) for American Traditions Insurance Company (“ATIC”). The Outlook is Stable.

The rating reflects the company's continued improvement in core underwriting performance, supported by more stable attritional losses, sustained pricing adequacy, and durable benefits from underwriting and form changes, higher wind deductibles, and eligibility tightening. These measures, combined with a substantial decline in litigated claim frequency following Florida’s legislative reforms, have reduced earnings volatility and improved predictability in reported operating results. ATIC also benefits from an experienced management team, strong and longstanding agency relationships, a conservative investment profile, and a stable reserve position with limited volatility in recent years.

Balancing these strengths are ATIC’s concentrated exposure to the Florida property market and elevated gross underwriting leverage of 6.4x at year-end 2024, both of which heighten sensitivity to catastrophe activity and adverse market conditions. The company also remains structurally reliant on reinsurance to protect surplus from severe weather events, and future reinsurance pricing or capacity constraints could pressure earnings or leverage metrics. ATIC’s operating results therefore remain exposed to event-driven volatility despite prudent exposure management and program design.

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Further information on key credit considerations, sensitivity analyses that consider what factors can affect these credit ratings and how they could lead to an upgrade or a downgrade, and ESG factors (where they are a key driver behind the change to the credit rating or rating outlook) can be found in the full rating report referenced above.

A description of all substantially material sources that were used to prepare the credit rating and information on the methodology(ies) (inclusive of any material models and sensitivity analyses of the relevant key rating assumptions, as applicable) used in determining the credit rating is available in the Information Disclosure Form(s) located here.

Information on the meaning of each rating category can be located here.

Further disclosures relating to this rating action are available in the Information Disclosure Form(s) referenced above. Additional information regarding KBRA policies, methodologies, rating scales and disclosures are available at www.kbra.com.

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Kroll Bond Rating Agency, LLC (KBRA), one of the major credit rating agencies (CRA), is a full-service CRA registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an NRSRO. Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited is registered as a CRA with the European Securities and Markets Authority. Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK Limited is registered as a CRA with the UK Financial Conduct Authority. In addition, KBRA is designated as a Designated Rating Organization (DRO) by the Ontario Securities Commission for issuers of asset-backed securities to file a short form prospectus or shelf prospectus. KBRA is also recognized as a Qualified Rating Agency by Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission and is recognized by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners as a Credit Rating Provider (CRP) in the U.S.

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