# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000033992
**File Stem:** 0001021771-25-000111
**Filing Date:** 2025-8
**Character Count:** 7643
**Document Hash:** b73c4a5319d22c3c3cb77cbd6907c369
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001021771-25-000111.hdr.sgml**: 20250807

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001021771-25-000111

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 15

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250806

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250807

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250807

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** KINGSTONE COMPANIES, INC.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000033992
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 362476480
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 000-01665
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251195474

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 120 WOOD ROAD
- **CITY:** KINGSTON
- **STATE:** NY
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 845-802-7900

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 120 WOOD ROAD
- **CITY:** KINGSTON
- **STATE:** NY

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** DCAP GROUP INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20050210

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** DCAP GROUP INC/
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19990702

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** EXTECH CORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19920703

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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

### FORM 8-K

#### CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

#### Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 6, 2025

## KINGSTONE COMPANIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Delaware**<br>| **000-01665**<br>| **36-2476480**<br>|
| (State or other jurisdiction <br> of incorporation) | (Commission <br> File Number) | (IRS Employer <br> Identification No.) |

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|:---|:---|
| **120 Wood Road<br> Kingston, New York**  | **12401<br>**  |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip code) |

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Registrant's telephone number, including area code (845) 802-7900

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

<u>Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:</u>

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| <u>Title of each class</u> | <u>Trading Symbol(s)</u> | <u>Name of each exchange on which registered</u> |
| Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share | KINS | NASDAQ Capital Market |

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter):

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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| **Item 5.02.** | **Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.** |

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(b) On August 6, 2025, Kingstone Companies, Inc. (the "Company") issued a press release (the "Press Release") announcing that Carla D'Andre and Timothy McFadden have completed their service on the Company's Board of Directors, and Pranav Pasricha has been elected to the Board of Directors. A copy of the Press Release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto.

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| **Item 5.07** | **Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders**. |

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On August 6, 2025, the Company held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting"). The following is a listing of the votes cast for or withheld, and the number of broker non-votes, with respect to each nominee for director and a listing of the votes cast for and against, as well as abstentions and broker non-votes, with respect to the other matters voted upon at the Annual Meeting. The Company's stockholders elected each of the nominees as a director, ratified the selection of CBIZ CPAs P.C. as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers and indicated, on a non-binding advisory basis, that future advisory votes on the Company's executive compensation should be held every year.

1. Election of Board of Directors:

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
|  | Number of Shares | Number of Shares | Number of Shares |
|  | For | Withheld | Broker Non-Votes |
| Meryl S. Golden | 5820888 | 41443 | 4166902 |
| Thomas Newgarden | 5743623 | 118708 | 4166902 |
| Floyd R. Tupper | 5493495 | 368836 | 4166902 |
| William L. Yankus | 5608958 | 253373 | 4166902 |
| Manmohan Singh | 5728865 | 133466 | 4166902 |
| Pranav Pasricha | 5810077 | 52254 | 4166902 |

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2. Ratification of the selection of CBIZ CPAs P.C. as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025:

<u> For </u> 9,997,477 <br> <u> Against </u> <u> 24,421 </u> <br> <u> Abstentions </u> <u> 7,335 </u>

3. Advisory vote on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers:

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| For | 5,517,003 |
| Against | 324,524 |
| Abstentions | 20,804 |
| Broker Non-Votes | 4,166,902 |

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4. Advisory basis, whether future advisory votes on the Company's executive compensation should be held every one, two or three years:

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|:---|:---|
| 3 Years | 884,582 |
| 2 Years | 23,781 |
| 1 Year | 4,940,857 |
| Abstentions | 13,111 |

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The Press Release also announced the actions taken by the stockholders at the Annual Meeting.

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| **Item 9.01** | **Financial Statements and Exhibits**. |

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(d) Exhibits.

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| Number | Description |
| 99.1 | Press release, dated August 6, 2025, issued by Kingstone Companies, Inc. |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |

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#### SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|:---|:---|:---|
|  | **KINGSTONE COMPANIES, INC.** | **KINGSTONE COMPANIES, INC.** |
| Dated: August 7, 2025<br>| By:  | /s/ Meryl Golden |
|  |  | Meryl Golden |
|  |  | Chief Executive Officer and President |

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## Exhibit 99.1

Exhibit 99.1<br>

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