---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001021771-25-000107"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KINS"
cik: "0000033992"
company_name: "KINGSTONE COMPANIES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-08-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T21:07:55.371698+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kingstone appoints Randy Patten as CFO; $400k salary, $200k sign-on bonus, $600k equity grant

## Summary
- Randy Patten appointed CFO effective August 25, 2025; 28 years insurance industry experience.
- Annual base salary of $400,000; bonus target 25% of base salary with $35,000 minimum 2025 guarantee.
- $200,000 sign-on bonus payable on start date; must repay if terminated for cause within one year.
- $600,000 restricted stock grant (2024 Equity Participation Plan) vesting 25%/25%/50% over three years.
- Employment agreement term through August 25, 2028, with automatic one-year renewals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001021771-25-000107
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KINS
- cik: 0000033992
- company_name: KINGSTONE COMPANIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-08-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33992/000102177125000107/0001021771-25-000107-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/33992/000102177125000107/kins8525.htm

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