-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, BF/VVl2hl9V291SbLl1sLqwyI9cnMD5/IJLml60/tsIuZhs93sdbf2OOw8/wijdA P9UkRZy6N9W59VeuoEt+3A== 0001331186-06-000042.txt : 20061214 0001331186-06-000042.hdr.sgml : 20061214 20060602123043 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001331186-06-000042 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SB-2/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 13 FILED AS OF DATE: 20060602 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20061017 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Premier Indemnity Holding CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001354549 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331] IRS NUMBER: 202680961 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SB-2/A SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-132482 FILM NUMBER: 06882227 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: P.O. BOX 2700 CITY: BIG FORK STATE: MT ZIP: 59911 BUSINESS PHONE: 406-837-1810 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P.O. BOX 2700 CITY: BIG FORK STATE: MT ZIP: 59911 SB-2/A 1 sb2amendred060206.htm SB-2 AMENDMENT REDLINE VERSION 06/02/06

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 30, 2006 Registration No. _____________

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

___________________________

 

AMENDMENT NO. 1 FORM SB-2

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(Name of small business issuer in its charter)

3001 N Rocky Point Dr, Ste 200

Tampa, FL 33607

813-286-6194

(Name, address and telephone number of Registrant)

 

 

 

FLORIDA

6331

20-2680961

 

 

(State or other jurisdiction of

(Primary Standard Industrial Classification

(I.R.S. Employer

 

 

incorporation or organization)

Code Number)

Identification No.)

Stephen L. Rohde

Premier Indemnity Holding Company

3001 N Rocky Point Dr, Ste 200

Tampa, FL 33607

813-286-6194

With a copy to

William M. Aul, Esq.

Law Offices of William M. Aul

7676 Hazard Center Drive, Suite 500

San Diego, California 92108

(619-497-2555)

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

Approximate date of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. x

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o

If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, please check the following box. o

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title Of Each
Class Of Securities
To Be Registered

Amount To Be
Registered(1)

Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share

Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price

Amount Of
Registration Fee

 

Common stock

17,500,000 (1)

$1.00.(2)

$17,500,000

$1,872.50

Total

17,500,000

 

$17,500,000

$1,872.50

 

(1) Of the shares of common stock being registered hereby, 15,000,000 shares are to be offered and sold by the Registrant and 2,500,000 shares are to offered and sold by a selling stockholder.

(2) The offering price has been arbitrarily determined by the Registrant and bears no relationship to assets, earnings, or any other valuation criteria.

(3) The Registrant will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale by the selling shareholder of its shares.

(4)

Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(c)solely for the purpose of calculating registration fee.

 

THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(A) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(A), MAY DETERMINE.

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration becomes effective. This prospectus shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such State.

 

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED __________________, 2006

 

Premier Indemnity Holding Company

 

17,500,000 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK

$1.00 per share

 


This prospectus relates to the offer and sale of up to 17,500,000 shares of the common stock of Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation, of which 15,000,000 shares are being offered and sold by the company and 2,500,000 shares by one selling stockholder identified in this prospectus. As currently planned, the 15,000,000 shares offered by the company will be sold by certain of the company’s officers and directors each of whom will not receive any commission or compensation for the sale of these shares. We will receive all of the net proceeds from our sale of these 15,000,000 shares. We are a development stage company with no prior business operations or revenues. The offering price for the shares has been arbitrarily determined by us, and does not necessarily bear any direct relationship to our assets, operations, book or other established criteria of value. This is a “minimum-maximum offering” of the company’s shares with the minimum offering set at $8.5 million. We are offering our shares on a “best efforts” basis, and pending receipt of at least $8,500,000 in funds from the sale of 8,500,000 shares, all proceeds, if any, received from this offering will be deposited in a non-interest bearing escrow account held by Wilmington Trust Company, the escrow agent. If subscriptions for 8,500,000 shares offered hereby by us have not been received and accepted by the company within 90 days from the commencement of the offering, which may be extended for an additional 30 days, the offering will terminate so further offers or sales of the shares will be made, and all funds then held in escrow will be immediately returned to investors. If we achieve the minimum offering, then all additional proceeds from the sale of our shares, if any, will be immediately released to us. There has been no public market for our common stock prior to the offering, and we cannot assure you that a public market will develop by reason of this offering even if we achieve the minimum offering and all funds are released by the escrow agent. We intend to seek inclusion of our common stock for quotation on the OTC Electronic Bulletin Board under the proposed symbol ________. In the event our common stock is not accepted for inclusion on the OTC Electronic Bulletin Board an investor would likely find it difficult to dispose of our shares, or to obtain current quotations as to the value of our shares. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale by the selling stockholder of its 2,500,000 shares of common stock and we will not assist the selling shareholder in the sale of its shares. The selling shareholder has agreed to refrain from selling any of its shares registered hereby until such time as we have achieved a minimum of $8,500,000 of proceeds from the sale of our shares hereby. The selling stockholder intends to sell its shares at $1.00 per share.

Investing in our Common Stock involves significant risks. See “Risk Factors” on page 6 for a description of certain factors that you should carefully consider before purchasing the shares offered by this prospectus. Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

Price to Public

Underwriting Discounts and Commissions(1)

Proceeds to Company(2)(3)

 

 



 

 

 

Per Share

$1.00

$0

$1.00

Minimum

$8,500,000

$0

$8,500,000

Maximum

$15,000,000

$0

$15,000,000

Total

$15,000,000

$0

$15,000,000

 

See footnotes on following page.

 

The date of this prospectus is _______________.

 

Footnotes from prior page:

 

(1)

We intend to solicit offers and sales of our shares registered hereby and offered by us to members of the public, subject to applicable state securities regulations. Certain of our officers, directors and employees may participate in our offer of shares to the public but will receive no compensation or remuneration for those efforts. Officers, directors, and our principal shareholders may be purchasing shares in this offering including any amount that may be necessary to meet the minimum offering. There is no guarantee that a market for our shares will develop if we achieve the minimum offering and proceeds are released by the escrow agent.

 

(2)

We have not retained or engaged any NASD member firm or affiliate or registered representative thereof to act on our behalf or to provide services in connection with the offer and sale of our shares in this offering. We have no present plans to engage the services of any NASD member firm or affiliate or registered representative thereof to act on our behalf to provide any such services.

 

(3)

Proceeds to the company are calculated before the deduction of expenses in connection with this offering and payable by the company, which are estimated at approximately $102,000 and include filing, legal, accounting, printing and other miscellaneous fees. The selling stockholder will not be paying any of the expenses of this offering.

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

SUMMARY INFORMATION

4

RISK FACTORS

7

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

12

USE OF PROCEEDS

12

DILUTION

12

PLAN OF OPERATION

14

MARKET FOR COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

16

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

17

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY

29

DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTERS AND CONTROL PERSONS

29

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

31

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

32

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

33

DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

35

SELLING STOCKHOLDER

35

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

36

DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION FOR SECURITIES ACT LIABILITIES

37

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

38

EXPERTS

38

INTEREST OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

38

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

38

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

F1

 

You should rely only on the information contained in this document or to which we have referred you. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with information that is different. This document may only be used where it is legal to sell these securities. The information in this document may only be accurate on the date of this document. However, in the event of a material change, this prospectus will be amended or supplemented accordingly.

 

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SUMMARY INFORMATION

 

The following summary is qualified in its entirety by the more detailed information, financial statements and other data appearing elsewhere in this Prospectus. At various places in this Prospectus, we may make reference to the "company" or "us" or "we." When we use those terms, unless the context otherwise requires, we mean Premier Indemnity Holding Company and its subsidiaries.

 

About Premier Indemnity Holding Company

 

We were incorporated as Premier Indemnity Holding Company in Florida on April 22, 2005. We are a development-stage company with no material assets and no current sales revenues. We have only limited operations that are devoted primarily to administrative and organizational matters and the registration of the shares offered hereby.

 

We are undertaking this offering to raise the capital needed to meet the requirements established by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. If we are successful in achieving the minimum offering of $8,500,000, we plan to obtain the Certificate of Authority from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. This would allow us to offer homeowner insurance policies solely in Florida. If we receive the Certificate, we plan to implement our plans to commence operations.

 

If we are successful in this offering and in implementing our business plan, we plan to recruit and appoint a carefully selected group of independent insurance agents to write our planned insurance policies. In writing and producing these policies, we plan to outsource policy and claims services to WaterStreet Company, a provider of business process outsourcing solutions. We believe that by having WaterStreet provide these services (for processing policies, premiums, and claims) for our anticipated policyholders, we may be able to remain better focused on pricing, underwriting, and marketing our planned insurance products and also avoid certain up-front costs. We have identified Wachovia Securities, LLC, a division of Wachovia Bank, N.A., and Mairs & Powers, Inc. as suitable candidates to provide portfolio management services in managing our planned portfolio from the funds received, if any, from this offering. We have not entered into any agreement with either of these firms, but we anticipate that if this offering is successful, we will enter into negotiations with them. Since we are aware that the Florida market faces a continuing threat of hurricanes, we intend to employ the latest catastrophe modeling technology to better manage the catastrophe risk exposure associated with the Florida insurance market.

 

We have two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Premier Indemnity Insurance Company and Premier Indemnity Associates, Inc. through which we intend, upon receiving licenses from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to write HO3 (Homeowners) and HO6 (Condominium) insurance policies to homes under 30 years old with replacement cost values ranging from $50,000 (Condominiums) and $100,000 (Homes) to a maximum of $500,000.

 

If this offering is successful, we anticipate that we will face significant challenges in entering the Florida homeowners and condominium insurance market, to implement systems and procedures to allow us to operate a new business, and to meet existing and ever-changing regulatory, competitive, and other challenges beyond our control.

 

If we are successful in these efforts, we may at some point in the future, raise additional capital to exploit opportunities that we may perceive in the Southeast United States. If market conditions allow and if we are successful in these efforts, we may also, at some point in the future, seek to enhance our portfolio of products and sales and segment the market. To the extent we are able to do so, our strategy is to spread our operating cost costs over a larger revenue base,  with a goal to increase revenues and profit margins. Our principal offices are at 3001 N Rocky Point Dr East, Ste 200 Tampa, FL 33607 and our telephone number is 813-286-6194. Our fiscal year end is December 31.

 

The Offering

 

 

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This is a “minimum-maximum offering” of the company’s shares with the minimum offering set at $8.5 million. We are offering our shares on a “best efforts” basis, and pending receipt of at least $8,500,000 in funds from the sale of 8,500,000 shares, all proceeds, if any, received from this offering will be deposited in a non-interest bearing escrow account held by Wilmington Trust Company, the escrow agent.

 

Common stock offered by Premier Indemnity Holding Company

15,000,000 Shares

Common stock offered by the selling stockholder

2,500,000 Shares

Common stock outstanding before offering

33,625,000 Shares

Common stock outstanding after minimum offering

42,125,000 Shares

Common stock outstanding after maximum offering

48,625,000 Shares

 

If subscriptions for 8,500,000 shares offered hereby by us have not been received and accepted by the company within 90 days from the commencement of the offering, which may be extended for an additional 30 days, the offering will terminate so further offers or sales of the shares will be made, and all funds then held in escrow will be immediately returned to investors. If we achieve the minimum offering, then all additional proceeds from the sale of our shares, if any, will be immediately released to us. There has been no public market for our common stock prior to the offering, and we cannot assure you that a public market will develop by reason of this offering even if we achieve the minimum offering.

 

The common stock offered by this Prospectus has been priced at $1.00 per share. This price was established on an arbitrary basis without regard to the assets, earnings, or other performance indicators of any entity or the price of securities of similar companies in the same industry.

 

Use of Proceeds

 

We will not realize any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares offered by the selling stockholder. See "Use of Proceeds". We will use any proceeds we receive from the sale of the 15,000,000 shares by us to meet the capital requirements required by the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Florida Department of Financial Services and for general corporate purposes. We will not realize any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares offered by the selling stockholder.

Officers, directors, and our principal shareholders may be purchasing shares in this offering including any amount that may be necessary to meet the minimum offering. We do not know if these persons will purchase our shares and, if so, how much they will purchase. To the extent that such persons purchase shares offered by us in this offering, the number of shareholders and the trading market for our common stock likely will be adversely impacted. As a result, this may limit the liquidity of any trading market that may develop and may limit the ability of any purchaser of our common stock to resell any shares that they acquire in this offering or in the open market. In the event that the shares offered hereby are acquired only by a small group of investors, a limited, illiquid, and sporadic trading market may develop. We cannot assure you that even if we are successful in this offering that you will be able to resell your shares into a continuous trading market.

 

SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

 

Subscribers purchasing the shares should make checks payable to __________, as Escrow Agent for Premier Indemnity Holding Company. Subscribers should also complete a Purchase Order Form, a form of which is enclosed herewith as Appendix A to this prospectus. For convenience, an actual Purchase Order Form will be included with this prospectus. Additional copies of the Purchase Order Form may be obtained by writing, calling or faxing the company at its office: Telephone (813) 286-6194 and facsimile (406) 837-1819.

 

 

 

 

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RISK FACTORS

 

The shares of our common stock being offered for sale are highly speculative and involve a high degree of risk. Only those persons able to lose their entire investment should purchase these shares. Before purchasing any of these shares, you should carefully consider the following factors relating to our business and prospects. You should also understand that this prospectus contains "forward-looking statements." These statements appear throughout this prospectus and include statements as to our intent, belief or current expectations or projections with respect to our future operations, performance or position. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future events and involve risks and uncertainties. Actual events and results, including the results of our operations, could differ materially from those anticipated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth below and elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

We are a newly formed business with no material assets and no prior operations upon which to base your investment decisions.

 

We are a new, development-stage company and we have no material assets or history of operations. As a result there is no historical record that an investor can use to examine our performance or our management in order to evaluate our future prospects. For these reasons, the purchase of our shares should only be considered by persons who are prepared to lose their entire investment. In addition, we have minimal assets and outstanding indebtedness to promissory note holders.

 

We have no full-time employees and only two of our officers provide a limited amount of attention to our business affairs.

 

At the present time, we have no full-time employees. Two officers, Stephen L. Rohde, President, Treasurer, and Director, devotes approximately 70 hours per month to our business affairs while Stephen W. Dick, Vice President, devotes an average of approximately 27 hours per month to our business affairs. While we believe that this arrangement has allowed us to prudently limit our costs and expenses while, at the same time, provide us with a sufficient managerial assistance to implement our business strategy, the lack of full time officers may have limited our ability to fully evaluate our business plans.

 

We have no history of operations and may never become profitable.

 

Since we have not yet commenced operations and we have only filed an application with the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Florida Department of Financial Services (the “State of Florida”), we have no history of operations. Although we incorporated on April 22, 2005, we cannot undertake operations until we obtain the Certificate of Authority from the Office of Insurance Regulation of the State of Florida. There is no guaranty that we will receive the Certificate of Authority from the State of Florida which would result in the issuance of the licenses needed to commence operations or if we do receive such approval that will be received in the near future. Further, the extent of the licenses that may be granted to us will require that we continually satisfy ever-changing rules and regulations established under the laws of Florida. Given these uncertainties and the early stage of our company, we may incur significant losses to implement our business plan We expect that we will incur losses until we are able to generate sufficient operating revenues to support expenditures. However, we may never generate positive cash flow or sufficient revenue to fund our operations and we may never attain profitability.

 

Our existing stockholders purchased their shares at a small fraction of the price of the shares offered hereby and our existing stockholders will, even if we achieve the maximum offering, retain control over the company.

 

All of our existing stockholders acquired their shares at a small fraction of the price of the shares offered hereby. Further, officers, directors, and existing stockholders will, even if all of the 15,000,000 shares offered hereby are sold, own a majority of our outstanding common stock and thereby retain control of the company.

 

 

 

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Investors who purchase our shares will incur immediate and substantial dilution.

 

Based on our December 31, 2005 balance sheet and without including the effect of any transactions or events after that date, in the event that we achieve the minimum offering, an investor who participates in this offering will incur immediate dilution of about 80% of the book value of their investment and in the event that we achieve the maximum offering, the investor who participates in this offering will incur dilution of about 69% of the book value of their investment. There can be no assurance that we will achieve the minimum offering.

 

If we do not obtain adequate financing, we may not be able to successfully implement our business plan.

 

The capital requirements to fund our planned insurance business will require that we have a minimum capital of not less than $8.0 million to commence operations. Additionally, we anticipate that we will be required to maintain a minimum of $5 million in capital in our insurance company that we hope to establish to remain compliant with Florida law. In the event that we are not able to achieve and maintain the required sufficient capital, we will not have the necessary capital to meet the requirements to remain as an insurance company as established under Florida law. In addition, if this offering is successful and if we are able to successfully implement our plans, we may in the future, raise additional capital and establish one or more additional subsidiaries that may allow us to enter the insurance markets in other states in the Southeastern United States or expand our offerings in Florida beyond what our initial capital will allow.

 

We amended our Articles of Incorporation to allow our Board to issue one or more series of Preferred Stock without the need to seek further stockholder approval.

 

We amended our Articles of Incorporation to authorize the issuance of up to 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series with such rights and privileges as our Board of Directors may, from to time, determine. For example, our Board of Directors has the right, as provided by the Amendment to our Articles of Incorporation and without obtaining any approval from our stockholders, to designate and issue up to 10,000,000 shares of our authorized preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions thereof, including dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption, liquidation preferences and the number of shares constituting any series or the designation of such series. Any issuance of our preferred stock could adversely affect the voting power of the holders of our common stock and could have the effect of delaying, deferring, or preventing the payment of any dividends (including any liquidating dividends) and any change in control of the company. While we have not issued any shares of our preferred stock and have no present plans to do so, we may do so in the future. If we issue any preferred stock, you should know that our common stock is subordinate to our preferred stock and any series of preferred stock designated and issued by our Board of Directors.

 

Because we are significantly smaller than many other existing insurance companies and because we have no existing operations, we may be at a competitive disadvantage if such companies introduce products that are similar to ours.

 

Most of the other established insurance companies that could be potential competitors have greater capital resources, more significant market positions with established relationships with insurance agents and others in the Florida marketplace than we will likely have at any time in the near future. Our ability to compete effectively could be adversely affected if one of the more established companies can devote significant resources to the development, sale and marketing of its products, develops a product that achieves commercial success.

 

If we do not successfully manage future growth, our ability to offer insurance products to the Florida homeowner market may be adversely affected.

 

If we are unable to manage our anticipated future growth effectively with its resulting increases in operating, administrative, financial, accounting and personnel systems, our ability to offer insurance products on schedule could be adversely affected. These and other external factors have caused and may continue to cause the market

 

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price and demand for our common stock to fluctuate substantially, which may limit or prevent investors from readily selling their shares of common stock and may otherwise negatively affect the liquidity of our common stock. The volatility of our common stock could cause you to lose a substantial portion of your investment if you purchased your shares at the higher end of the volatility.

 

Our success depends significantly upon an easily copied business model and offering insurance products similar to that offered by many existing and well-established competitors.

 

Our business plan relies upon an easily-copied business model and does not rely upon any proprietary technology. All of our planned insurance products will be similar to the products offered by our direct competitors and we will compete directly with these competitors many of whom are established insurance companies with either an existing sales force or existing relationships with independent insurance brokers that are well-established in their communities and in the insurance industry. These competitors include, but are limited to, American Strategic Insurance, Federated National, Florida Family, Florida Select, Tower Hill Preferred and Prime, Cypress, and several others. We believe that while our strategy is prudent, we cannot assure you that our business model and the plans we have made can be implemented so as to allow us to generate revenues with sufficient volume to provide any profitability.

 

We plan to offer insurance policies solely within the State of Florida and our underwriting risks will not be diversified to other geographic regions.

 

Our plan is to offer condominium and home insurance to homes that are less than 30 years old in markets throughout the State of Florida. Many parts of Florida face continuing risks of property destruction from hurricanes and other natural and man-made disasters. The magnitude and number of hurricanes and the destructive impact on Florida property can not be predicted with precise accuracy. While we believe that the Florida market offers strong opportunities and we will attempt to limit our exposure through appropriate underwriting policies and reinsurance agreements, our anticipated premium revenues and our underwriting exposure will be concentrated entirely in Florida and we will not be diversified in any other state. This may subject us to significant financial volatility and the risk of significant losses given the uncertain timing, number, and magnitude of these disasters and the extent to which we are exposed to claims that arise out of insured losses within the state of Florida.

 

We face continuous review by the State of Florida to ensure that we meet state regulations.

 

We will be subject to continuous review of the State of Florida in meeting state insurance and other regulations. This will subject us to ever-changing standards in the laws, regulations, and other requirements. While we plan to implement procedures and policies that will allow us to meet these standards, we cannot assure you that we will successfully satisfy the legal requirements that will allow us to implement our plans or continue to satisfy these requirements in the future.

 

We anticipate relying upon WaterStreet Company to provide administrative services to us.

 

We anticipate relying upon WaterStreet Company to provide administrative services to our company in processing premiums, issuing insurance policies, and handling claims. While we believe that this out-sourcing arrangement is prudent, that it may allow us to effectively meet changing insurance market conditions, and that we may be able to exercise effective oversight over WaterStreet, we will not have direct control over this important part of our planned business. We may experience losses if we do not effectively manage and control this relationship and the actions taken by WaterStreet.

 

We have not engaged any independent insurance agents to sell our planned insurance products and we anticipate relying upon such agents.

 

We have not yet engaged any independent insurance agents to sell our planned insurance products. We do not plan to engage any insurance agents to sell our products unless we are successful in achieving the minimum offering and we receive the Certificate of Authority from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. We plan to enter into agreements with independent insurance agents to represent us as independent contractors not as our employees. As a

 

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result, we will not likely be able to exercise direct control over these agents in marketing and selling our planned insurance products. These independent agents will likely also offer and sell insurance policies by our competitors and we will need to offer these agents commissions that favorably compare to the commissions offered by our competitors. This may serve to limit the effectiveness of our marketing and sales efforts, our ability to develop a presence in the Florida market, and our ability to grow as a company. We cannot assure you that we can effectively execute our marketing and selling efforts and that we can successfully attract a sufficient number of independent insurance agents to market and sell our policies in sufficient volumes that will allow us to successfully implement our business plan.

 

We anticipate relying upon third parties for portfolio management services in managing our planned investments.

 

We plan to rely upon third party professionals to provide us with investment management services to manage our planned portfolio. We have identified Wachovia Securities, LLC, a division of Wachovia Bank, N.A., and Mairs & Powers, Inc. as suitable candidates to provide portfolio management services in managing our planned portfolio from the funds received, if any, from this offering. We have not entered into any agreement with either of these firms, but we anticipate that if this offering is successful, we will enter into negotiations with them. While we can not assure you that we may be able to exercise effective oversight over the investment management services that we receive, we will not have direct control over this important part of our planned business. We may experience losses if we do not effectively manage and control this relationship and the actions taken by the third parties that we retain for investment management services.

 

We will not rely upon an underwriter for this offering and we are relying upon this offering to raise capital.

 

All of the shares offered by the company are being offered by the company’s officers and directors and we have no present plans to engage any underwriter for this offering. We cannot assure you that we will achieve the minimum offering of $8,500,000, that we will sell any of the shares offered hereby, or if we achieve the minimum offering, that any liquid trading market for our common stock will develop. Further, while we have explored other possible opportunities to raise capital, we are substantially dependent upon this offering to raise the capital we need to implement our plans.

 

No underwriter has conducted or will conduct any independent due diligence review or evaluation of our plans or advised us regarding this offering.

 

We have not received and do not plan to receive the benefit of any independent professional due diligence review or evaluation of our affairs, planned business and other important matters by any underwriter. The lack of a separate and independent third party review by an underwriter may have limited our ability to evaluate our business, the plans we have made, the price of the shares offered in this offering, and many other terms and arrangements we have made for this offering. In general and under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933, an underwriter has an obligation to conduct a reasonable investigation into our affairs and to have a reasonable belief and believe that the representations and descriptions made in this prospectus do not contain any material misstatements or omissions of material fact. Further, an underwriter also typically assists an issuer of securities in setting the price at which the shares are being offered and in supporting a trading market after the offering. We have not had the benefit of any underwriter in any of these matters and we cannot assure you that we will not incur difficulties in this offering, that this offering will be successful, or if we achieve the minimum offering, that any trading market in our stock will be sustained or if it is sustained, that it will be sustained at any reasonable level.

 

Our officers, directors, and shareholders may purchase shares to assist us in achieving the minimum offering and this may adversely impact and limit any trading market that may develop.

 

Officers, directors, and our principal shareholders may purchase shares in this offering including any amount that may be necessary to meet the minimum offering. We do not know if these persons will purchase our shares and, if so, how much they will purchase or if, after purchasing them, they may resell them. To the extent that such persons purchase shares offered by us in this offering, the number of shareholders and the trading market for our common

 

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stock likely will be adversely impacted. As a result, this may limit the liquidity of any trading market that may develop and may limit the ability of any purchaser of our common stock to resell any shares that they acquire in this offering or in the open market. In the event that the shares offered hereby are acquired only by a small group of investors, a limited, illiquid, and sporadic trading market may develop. We cannot assure you that even if we are successful in this offering that you will be able to resell your shares into a continuous trading market or if any such market develops, that it will be sustained so as to allow you sufficient opportunity to resell your shares.

 

If you purchase our shares, your investment will not earn any interest or return while it is held in escrow.

 

We have established a minimum offering of $8,500,000. If we do not achieve the minimum offering, the investment you make to purchase the company’s shares will not earn any interest or return during the period that the funds are held by the escrow agent. As currently planned, we will attempt to achieve the minimum offering for a period of as long as 90 days from the commencement of the offering (which may be extended for an additional 30 days). As a result, you will not earn any interest or return on your funds during that period.

 

The shares offered by the selling stockholder may adversely impact our ability to raise funds and any after-market for our stock.

 

If we are successful in achieving the minimum offering of $8.5 million, the selling shareholder will be allowed to sell its shares registered in this offering. The offering and sale of these shares by the selling shareholder may adversely impact our ability to raise any funds in excess of the minimum offering and, at the same time, adversely impact the price levels of our stock thereafter.

 

If this offering is successful, we will likely incur losses before we obtain the Certificate of Authority to operate as an insurance company.

 

If this offering is successful and we receive the capital needed to obtain the Certificate of Authority from the State of Florida, we will likely incur administrative, marketing, selling, and other expenses before we can commence any operations as an insurance company. We anticipate that we may have two to five months or longer before we can commence operations. As a result, we may incur losses before we gain any revenue from our planned business and we cannot predict the precise date at which we may be able to commence operations or the magnitude of such losses.

 

If this offering is successful and we obtain the Certificate of Authority to operate as an insurance company in Florida, we will likely incur substantial losses before operating revenues may be achieved at a sufficient level above anticipated operating costs.

 

If this offering is successful, we anticipate that if we obtain the Certificate of Authority from the State of Florida that will allow us to operate as an insurance company, we will likely incur losses for a period of at least 12 to 24 months or longer before we can achieve sufficient operating revenues in excess of anticipated operating losses. While we intend to manage and control our expenses, some expenses are fixed and others are beyond our control. In any event, we may not be able to control our expenses effectively and because of this uncertainty we may incur losses for an uncertain time period. Further, as a new company entering a new business, we cannot be certain that we can develop a sufficient level of revenues in excess of these expenses or if we do develop a sufficient level of revenues, that it will be maintained for any period of time. As a result, we may experience losses.

 

We have not completed an evaluation on the cost and availability of reinsurance and related uncertainties.

 

We anticipate entering into reinsurance agreements with one or more reinsurance companies that will allow the reinsurance company to assume certain risks insured under our planned policies. We have not completed any evaluation of the cost of obtaining such reinsurance or whether such policies may be available to us. The cost of reinsurance fluctuates and likely will depend on the perception of risk determined by reinsurance carriers, competition among reinsurance carriers, and other factors beyond our control. In general, if are successful in entering into a reinsurance agreement with a reinsurance company, a portion of the insurance premiums we receive

 

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on our anticipated policies will be paid by us to the reinsurance company. As a result and in this event, the insurance premiums we receive on such policies (for which reinsurance is obtained) will be reduced in exchange for the reinsurance carrier assuming some of the risk covered by the policy. Thus, to the extent that we enter into reinsurance agreements, our premium revenues will be reduced. Further, we cannot assure you that any agreement with a reinsurance company will be cost effective. If we determine that the cost of reinsurance is excessive, we may limit the amount and extent of reinsurance arrangements. However, if we limit the amount and extent of reinsurance, we will be exposed to greater risks and claims to a far greater degree with the result that we could incur greater underwriting losses. Further, since we are a new company entering into the insurance business, we may face greater scrutiny and uncertainty on applying for and obtaining any reinsurance and cannot assure you that we will be successful in obtaining reinsurance or, if we do, that it can be obtained at a cost that is reasonable in light of current competitive and market conditions.

 

Our planned reinsurance program may not provide adequate financial protections.

 

To the extent that we are able and subject to market conditions and the accuracy of our assessments regarding the risks we face, we plan to take steps to protect our company from excessive losses from catastrophes, most notably hurricanes. To do this, we will monitor and evaluate our underwriting rules and parameters and to purchase reinsurance to at least the one in a hundred year probable maximum loss, as determined by insurance industry approved computer models. However, it is possible that one or more major hurricanes (such as a Katrina or more severe hurricane) could hit one or more sections of Florida where we have a concentration of homes that causes more damage than the one in a hundred year event. We would have only our existing capital to cover losses above the upper limit of our reinsurance, which may not be adequate to allow us to remain in business. Further, in the event that multiple major hurricanes hit one or more sections of Florida in an area where we have significant exposure under our policies, we could be easily exposed to significant claims with losses that may place our company at a distinct risk of becoming insolvent. Further and in this and other contexts, we cannot assure you that one or more of any reinsurance companies with whom we may enter into reinsurance agreements with will not become financially insolvent and unable to meet and pay amounts due us under the terms of our planned reinsurance agreements. In these scenarios, the reinsurance agreements that we plan to enter into will likely be of little value in protecting our capital and protecting us from claims in excess of the risk assessments that we made previously. This too exposes us to the distinct risk of becoming bankrupt or insolvent. We believe that our competitors historically have purchased reinsurance similar to our plans. However, we cannot assure you that we will be able to purchase reinsurance at the levels or in amounts that we plan or, if we can obtain such reinsurance, that we will be able to do so at costs that are financially cost-effective. To the extent that reinsurance costs are found to be excessive, our business plans may not be commercially viable, we may incur substantial losses due to excessive claims from our policyholders and be exposed to risks that, at minimum, will likely result in extreme volatility in our financial performance and possible bankruptcy and insolvency.

 

We will be exposed to the risks associated with misrepresentations made by independent insurance agents.

 

We are aware that insurance companies face a continuing risk from litigation from persons claiming insurance coverage and assert that the insurance agent misrepresented whether the policy existed, misrepresented the extent of insurance coverage, or both. While we intend to take precautions to prevent such claims, we cannot assure you that we can successfully prevent losses arising out of such claims.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

Except for historical information, the information contained in this prospectus filed with the SEC are “forward looking” statements about our expected future business and financial performance. These statements which appear throughout this prospectus and include statements as to our intent, belief or current expectations or projections with respect to our future operations, performance or financial position, involve known and unknown risks, including, among others, risks resulting from economic and market conditions, forecasting accuracy in our business plan and projected costs, the magnitude of the start-up costs we face in commencing operations, uncertainties relating to consumer preferences, uncertainties regarding the cost of obtaining re-insurance, the probability that, if we commence operations, that we may face one or more years where the number and magnitude

 

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of hurricane activity may exceed historical averages, and other business conditions. We are subject to these and many other uncertainties and assumptions contained elsewhere in this prospectus. We base our forward-looking statements on information currently available to us, and, in accordance with the requirements of federal securities laws, we will disclose to you material developments affecting such statements. Our actual operating results and financial performance may prove to be very different from what we have predicted as of the date of this prospectus due to certain risks and uncertainties. The risks described above in the section entitled “Risk Factors” specifically address some of the factors that may affect our future operating results and financial performance. Accordingly, you are cautioned not to place too much relevance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to our company, or persons acting on its behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statement contained in this prospectus.

USE OF PROCEEDS

 

As currently planned and subject to market conditions, the net proceeds received from the offering of shares by us (after deduction of expenses from this offering which are estimated to be approximately $102,000) are planned to be allocated as set forth below. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of our common stock by the selling shareholder.

 

 

 

If Minimum Offering Achieved

If Maximum Offering Achieved

Capital Reserve

$ 8,000,000

$ 8,000,000

Working Capital

$ 398,000

$ 6,898,000

Total

$ 8,398,000

$ 14,898,000

 

The minimum offering is for gross proceeds of $8.5 million, which represents our sale of 8.5 million shares of common stock and such funds will be allocated to fund our capital requirements to meet the surplus required by the State of Florida and for working capital. All funds received, if any, before the minimum offering is achieved, will be deposited in a non-interest-bearing account maintained by the escrow agent. See the section below entitled “Plan of Distribution – Escrow Agent”.

 

The maximum offering is for gross proceeds of $15,000,000 which represents our sale of 15,000,000 shares of common stock. These funds will be allocated to fund our capital requirements to meet the capital required by the State of Florida and for working capital.

 

Pending the use of any such proceeds, we intend to invest these funds in short-term, interest bearing investment-grade securities. We will not receive proceeds from the resale of our common stock by the selling stockholder.

 

DILUTION

 

Our existing stockholders, which are comprised substantially of the persons involved in the founding of the company, its initial organization and development and our officers and directors, acquired their securities at par value as consideration for their efforts with respect to our organization and initial development. This represents a substantial difference from the contemplated $1.00 per share offering price at which we and the selling stockholder anticipate selling the shares offered hereby. As we are a development stage company with no assets, operations or revenues at this time, there is no reasonable measure of the net tangible book value per share for our outstanding common stock.

 

Our initial stockholders acquired all of the 33,625,000 shares issued prior to this offering at a purchase price of $0.0024 per share. In contrast, all of the shares offered hereby are being offered at $1.00 per share.

 

"Dilution," as the term is used herein, is a reduction in the value of a purchaser's investment measured by the difference between the purchase price and the net tangible book value of the Common Shares after the purchase takes place. "Net book value" represents the amount of total assets less the amount of total liabilities divided by the number of Shares of our Common Stock outstanding. This dilution arises mainly from the arbitrary decision as to the Offering price per Share and the lower book value of the shares currently outstanding.

 

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For example, if the minimum offering of $8,500,000 is achieved, then we will issue 8,500,000 shares of our common stock. In that event, purchasers in this offering would own an aggregate of about 20.17% of the total shares issued and outstanding.

 

The following table summarizes the dilution which investors participating in the offering would incur and the benefit to current shareholders as a result of this Offering and assumes that we achieve, alternatively, the maximum offering or the minimum offering (and before deducting any legal, accounting, printing, underwriting, or other offering costs incurred in connection with this offering). The table does not include the impact of any other events or financial or other transactions after December 31, 2005 except for the issuance of 33,624,000 shares of our common stock before this offering.

 

 

If Maximum Offering

($8,500,000)

If Minimum Offering

($15,000,000)

 

Offering Price Per Share (1)

$ 1.00

$ 1.00

Net Book Value Per Share Prior to the Offering (2)

($ 0.004)

($ 0.004)

Increase in the Net Book Value Per Share Attributable to this Offering (3)

$ 0.2026

$ 0.3097

Net Book Value Per Share After this Offering (4)

$ 0.1986

$ 0.3057

Dilution to New Investors (5)

$0.8014

$0.6943

 

Footnotes:

 

(1) All of the shares are being offered at $1.00 per share. The amounts shown do not include any deduction for legal, accounting, printing, underwriting, or other costs incurred in connection with this offering or the effect of any events or transactions after December 31, 2005 except for the issuance of 33,625,000 shares of our common stock to certain founding stockholders at $0.0024 per share (for a total of 33,625,000 shares outstanding) prior to this offering. All calculations are based on the 33,625,000 shares that were outstanding prior to this offering and reflect, alternatively, the issuance of either 15,000,000 additional shares in the event that the maximum offering is achieved or 8,500,000 additional shares in the event that the minimum offering is achieved.

 

 

(2) Reflects that 33,625,000 shares were outstanding immediately prior to this offering.

 

(3) Calculated by adding $0, the amount shown as equity on our audited balance sheet as of December 31, 2005 and adding, alternatively, $15,000,000 in gross proceeds (assuming that the maximum offering is achieved) or $8,500,000 in gross proceeds (assuming that the minimum offering is achieved) and, in each case, before deducting commissions and all other costs of this offering and before including the effect of any financial transactions and events after December 31, 2005 except for the issuance of 33,625,000 shares of our common stock after December 31, 2005 and before this offering. The sum is then divided by, alternatively, 42,125,000 shares if the minimum offering is achieved or 48,625,000 shares if the maximum offering is achieved. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in selling any of the shares offered hereby.

 

(4) Represents the net book value per share with the issuance of the shares offered hereby assuming, alternatively that either the minimum offering is achieved or that the maximum offering is achieved without giving effect to any events and financial transactions after December 31, 2005 or any deduction for any costs incurred in connection with this offering or otherwise after that date except for the issuance of 33,625,000 shares of our common stock after December 31, 2005 and before this offering. The investors participating in this offering would incur an immediate dilution in the net book value of approximately $0.6943 (maximum offering) or $.8014

 

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(minimum offering) per share. This represents dilution of about 80% (minimum offering) and about 69% (maximum offering) per $1.00 invested. Thus, if we achieve the minimum offering, an investor who participates in this offering will incur dilution of about 80% of their investment and if we achieve the maximum offering, the investor who participates in this offering will incur dilution of about 69% of their investment. There can be no assurance that we will achieve the minimum offering.

 

Comparative Ownership and Comparative Relative Contributions of Capital

 

The following table is a summary only. It summarizes the comparative stock ownership of the company and the relative capital contributions of our existing stockholders and any investors who purchase shares in this offering for each of the following two scenarios: in the event that the minimum offering is achieved and in the event that the maximum offering is achieved.

 

 

 

If minimum offering

If maximum offering

 

 

 

No. of

Shares

%

Dollars Invested

%

No. Shares

%

Dollars Invested

%

 

Existing Stockholders(1)

33,625,000

80%

$0

0%

33,625,000

69%

$0

0%

 

New Investors(2)

8,500,000

20%

$8,500,000

100%

15,000,000

31%

$15,000,000

100%

 

Totals

42,125,000

100%

$8,500,000

100%

48,625,000

100%

$15,000,000

100%

 

Footnotes:

 

(1) Represents, for existing stockholders, the number of shares held, percentage ownership, amount of capital contributed to the company, and percentage of capital contributed to the company in the two alternative scenarios: if the minimum offering is achieved and if the maximum offering is achieved.

 

(2) Represents, for new investors (persons who purchase the shares offered by the company in this offering), the number of shares held, percentage ownership, amount of capital contributed to the company, and percentage of capital contributed to the company in each of two scenarios: if the minimum offering is achieved, and if the maximum offering is achieved.

 

The summary table above shows that if the minimum offering of $8,500,000 is achieved, the investors who participate in this offering will own, in the aggregate, about 20% of the outstanding common stock and all such persons will have contributed 100% of the company’s capital. In the event that the maximum offering of $15,000,000 is achieved, the investors who participate in this offering will own, in the aggregate, about 31% of the outstanding common stock and all such persons will have contributed, in each case, 100% of the company’s capital.

 

 

PLAN OF OPERATION

 

We are a development stage company and have not yet had any operations or generated any revenues. As we have discussed above in the section entitled “Use of Proceeds,” if we raise the minimum amount of $8,500,000 of gross proceeds in this offering we intend to use those proceeds to fund our capital reserve to meet the requirements of the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation and for working capital. Of the $8,500,000 of gross proceeds, we have allocated approximately $8,000,000 toward funding the capital reserve and $398,000 to fund our working capital needs (after deduction of expenses from this offering which are estimated to be approximately $102,000). These allocations are based upon our managements’ best estimates and are not reflective of any published research or analysis.

 

If we are successful in achieving the minimum offering of $8,500,000 of gross proceeds and if we are able to successfully implement our business plan, we anticipate that this offering will provide sufficient capital to allow us to operate for the 12 month period thereafter.

 

 

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We do not intend to conduct any product research but we intend to continuously monitor the Florida homeowners and condominium insurance marketplace, the products and marketing actions taken by existing insurance companies in the Florida market, and to identify potential competitive, regulatory, and other developments that may impact our plans and the strategies that we have made and, where appropriate, modify or change our plans and strategies in response to these developments.

 

Our plans call only for us to purchase office equipment as needed for our headquarters offices which includes expenditures for office furniture, computers, other office equipment, and office supplies. We intend to rely upon Waterstreet to provide many administrative services to us and we intend to rely upon third parties for portfolio management services.

 

 

For portfolio management services and based on preliminary discussions we have had with Mairs and Power, Inc., we anticipate that the management fees that we will incur for these services will approximate $2.00 or higher per $1,000 of funds in annual portfolio management fees. In the event that we achieve the minimum offering and deposit $8,000,000 in funds with a firm that provides portfolio management services and if this estimate remains accurate, this will result in annual portfolio management fees of about $16,000 or higher. The precise amount of actual portfolio management fees that we incur cannot be predicted with precision but we will evaluate our options and plan to engage the services of a portfolio management services company if we are successful in achieving the minimum offering.

 

If we are successful in these plans, then for the first twelve months after we commence operations, we anticipate that we will employ an aggregate of six persons (as employees of the company) in the following capacities:

 

President and Treasurer (1person)

Vice President, Product Management

Director, Sales & Marketing

Operations Manager

Administrative Assistants (2 persons)

 

Based on our current estimates, we anticipate that costs for office expenditures for office supplies and equipment will range from $25,000 to $35,000 in the first twelve months of operations.

 

In the event that our cost estimates prove to be incorrect or cash flow from operations is not sufficient to meet operating costs, we may be required to seek additional financing, and possibly sooner than we had anticipated. We have no current arrangements with respect to any additional financing, and to the extent any additional financing is available to us at such time, we cannot assure you that such prospective financing will be available on commercially reasonable terms.

 

Changes in or Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Matters

 

We have had no disagreements with our independent auditors and we have no further financial disclosure other than the financial statements included herein.

 

 

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MARKET FOR COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

 

We intend to seek inclusion of our common stock for quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol ______. In order for us to gain any trading on the OTC Bulletin Board, a market maker will need to file certain information required by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and file an application to trade our shares. We have identified a market maker who has expressed an interest in filing this application but the market maker has not given us any commitment that he will file the application and we anticipate that no application will be filed unless the minimum offering has been achieved. No trading in our common stock can occur until these conditions have been satisfied.

 

Prior to this Offering, no trading market for our common stock existed since we were a privately-held company. If this Offering is successful, there can be no assurance that any active, liquid trading market for our common stock will exist or, if it does exist, that it will be maintained.

 

No cash dividends have been paid on our common stock for the 2005 fiscal year and no change of this policy is under consideration by the Board of Directors. The payment of cash dividends in the future will be determined by the Board of Directors in light of conditions then existing, including our Company's earnings (if any), financial requirements, and opportunities for reinvesting earnings, business conditions, and other factors.

 

The number of shareholders of record of our Company's Common Stock on May 30, 2006 was 21.

 

Dividend Policy

 

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain future earnings, if any, to finance the expansion of our business. As a result, we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

 

 

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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

The Company

 

We were incorporated as Premier Indemnity Holding Company in Florida on April 22, 2005. We are a development-stage company with no material assets and no current sales revenues. We have only limited operations that are devoted primarily to administrative and organizational matters and the registration of the shares offered hereby.

 

We are undertaking this offering to raise the capital needed to meet the requirements established by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. If we are successful in achieving the minimum offering of $8,500,000, we plan to obtain the Certificate of Authority from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation which would allow us to offer homeowner insurance policies solely in Florida. If we receive the Certificate, we plan to implement our plans to commence operations.

 

If we are successful in this offering and in implementing our business plan, we plan to recruit and appoint a carefully selected group of independent insurance agents to write our planned insurance policies. In writing and producing these policies, we plan to outsource policy and claims services to WaterStreet Company, a provider of business process outsourcing solutions. We believe that by having WaterStreet provide these services (for processing policies, premiums, and claims) for our anticipated policyholders, we may be able to remain better focused on pricing, underwriting, and marketing our planned insurance products and also avoid certain up-front costs. We have identified Wachovia Securities, LLC, a division of Wachovia Bank, N.A., and Mairs & Powers, Inc. as suitable candidates to provide portfolio management services in managing our planned portfolio from the funds received, if any, from this offering. We have not entered into any agreement with either of these firms, but we anticipate that if this offering is successful, we will enter into negotiations with them. Since we are aware that the Florida market faces a continuing threat of hurricanes, we intend to employ the latest catastrophe modeling technology to better manage the catastrophe risk exposure associated with the Florida insurance market.

 

We have two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Premier Indemnity Insurance Company and Premier Indemnity Associates, Inc. through which we intend, upon receiving licenses from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to write HO3 (Homeowners) and HO6 (Condominium) insurance policies to homes under 30 years old with replacement cost values ranging from $50,000 (Condominiums) and $100,000 (Homes) to a maximum of $500,00. Our principal offices are at 3001 N Rocky Point Dr East, Ste 200 Tampa, FL 33607 and our telephone number is 813-286-6194. Our fiscal year end is December 31.

 

If this offering is successful and if we obtain the Certificate of Authority from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, we intend to enter the insurance business and offer homeowners policies in Florida. We believe that the Florida market is strong and offers significant opportunities for us. To achieve our goals, we plan to recruit and appoint a carefully selected group of independent agents to write our planned insurance policies. In providing policy and claims services to our planned insurance policyholders, we plan to outsource these policy services to WaterStreet Company. WaterStreet is a provider of business process outsourcing solutions. We believe that by having WaterStreet provide these policy services to our anticipated policyholders, we may be able to remain better focused on pricing, underwriting, and marketing our planned insurance products and also avoid certain up-front costs of providing these services ourselves.

 

While we recognize that the Florida market faces a continuing threat of hurricanes and other natural and man-made disasters, we plan to employ the latest catastrophe modeling technology to manage the catastrophe risk exposure that we will face in offering such insurance policies in the Florida market. Nevertheless, we know that the magnitude and number of hurricanes and the destructive impact on Florida property can not be predicted with precise accuracy.

 

To the extent that we are able, we plan to position ourselves as a leading provider of quality homeowners insurance products and services in the state of Florida. We intend to take steps, wherever possible, to provide prompt claims settlement and fair payments which will allow us to develop a good reputation as an insurance company.

 

 

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We anticipate that our insurance policies will be marketed and sold by insurance agents employed by independent insurance agencies. We have not engaged the services of any insurance agents and we do not plan to engage the services of any insurance agent unless: (A) we achieve the minimum offering and (B) we obtain the Certificate of Authority from the Florida Department of Insurance Regulation. If these objectives are achieved, we plan to carefully select insurance agencies on the basis of previous relationships, recommendations from state and regional agency associations, referrals, in person agency interviews, and through other efforts. We plan to offer an agency contract that will likely be comparable to those offered by other insurance companies. We currently anticipate that the selection process of appointing agents will start slowly and cautiously. During the first several months, we anticipate appointing agents on a limited and methodical basis. We expect to write only a modest amount of business, which, if sustained, would not be sufficient to support our business plans. We anticipate that it will some time for the marketplace and insurance agents to recognize our name and become comfortable with our company. If we are successful in this offering and we receive the Certificate of Authority from the Florida Department of Insurance Regulation thereafter, this may coincide with the start of the hurricane season in Florida. For that reason we believe it will be prudent to limit our growth during this time and begin pursuing growth that will be sufficient to support our business plans after the hurricane season ends. Therefore, it is likely that it may be six to nine months or longer for us to begin to have sufficient business to support our business plans. We estimate that we will need to have between 100 and 200 independent insurance agencies to represent us in Florida if we are to effectively market our policies and meet our business plans. These estimates may change depending on the overall effectiveness of our marketing efforts, competitive conditions in the Florida market, and other variables over which we may have little control.

 

These insurance agencies will not be our employees and our relationship with them will likely follow the format, terms, and arrangements used by other insurance companies in Florida and as set forth in a typical agency agreement. To that extent, we will likely have limited control over independent insurance agencies and the marketing and selling efforts that they undertake in connection with our planned policies. Each independent agent will have the responsibility of explaining and describing our policies to the potential insured, providing premium rate quotations, writing policies using our software, and collecting down payments.

 

In general and to the extent that we are able to do so, we intend to price our policies so that the premiums received are commensurate with the exposure we face. We intend to base our pricing on actuarial assumptions in evaluating the probability and magnitude of the risks we face.

 

We have entered into an agreement to outsource policy administration and claims system development and servicing, as well as customer service to WaterStreet, a company that specializes in insurance processing. While this will give day-to-day control of these services to a third party, we believe that this may serve to allow us to remain better focused on our core business strategies and operations, will allow us to avoid large up-front investments to establish a policy and claims services operation while possibly providing the savings and service needed to stay competitive.

 

We intend to utilize catastrophe modeling technology to manage, to the extent that we are able, the catastrophe risks associated with the Florida insurance market. These catastrophe risks include natural disasters such as hurricanes, windstorms, hail, ice storms, and others but also man-made disasters as well. We believe that the use of this modeling may provide us with information useful in managing our financial performance and the risks that we underwrite in relation to our risk portfolio. It may also allow us to achieve a higher degree of accuracy in pricing our policies and, at the same time, it may allow us to better measure the amount of reinsurance needed to balance the insured risks covered by our policies. While we believe that these plans will help us to protect our capital and surplus, we cannot assure you that we will be successful in utilizing catastrophe modeling technology, in accurately pricing our policies, and in obtaining a prudent amount of reinsurance.

 

We plan to obtain reinsurance coverage from highly rated reinsurance carriers to minimize losses on an individual basis, as well as losses from other catastrophes, particularly hurricanes. Our current plans call for coverage to be structured around the mandatory coverage provided by the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe, with commercial excess catastrophe reinsurance and quota share reinsurance supporting our planned reinsurance program.

 

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Our overall goal will be to optimize our return on investment with a prudent, sustained level of growth with reliance on a carefully constructed reinsurance program that will allow us the prospect of business longevity. If this offering is successful and if we are successful in Florida, we may later establish one or more additional subsidiaries and arrange for these subsidiaries to apply for a Certificate of Authority to operate as an insurance company and offer insurance products as well. We may also establish other subsidiaries and for these latter subsidiaries to apply for insurance licenses in one or more other states in the southeastern United States. We have not, as of this date, established any timetable or criteria for these plans.

 

In general and to the extent that we are able, we plan to employ the following strategies to generate insurance premium revenues.

 

(1) First, we plan to carefully identify and select independent insurance agents to market and sell our planned insurance policies. Once selected, we plan to enter into an agency relationship with each agent through an agency contract between us and the agent. Under the terms of the agency contract, we will appoint the agent to market and sell our policies.

 

(2) Second, we anticipate that the agency contract will likely contain terms and conditions customarily used in our industry. Under the typical scenario, we anticipate that when the agents sells a policy and we receive premiums paid by the insured, we pay the agent a commission. The amount of the commission will likely be determined by competitive conditions in the market since each agent typically represents other insurance companies that offer insurance policies that may appear to be no different than the policies we intend to offer. We anticipate that the agency contract we may use will have no fixed expiration date and remain in force until one party cancels the contract after giving proper notice to the other as commonly required in these agreements.

 

(3) Third, in marketing and selling our policies, our independent agents will need to understand our underwriting criteria. We plan to take steps to educate and inform agents of our underwriting criteria using information accessed using systems provided through the internet and through a sales support and marketing staff we plan to employ. With these resources, we believe that our planned agents will have the ability to explain the terms of our policies to potential insureds, provide a quote, write the policy on our software, and collect a down payment. If we receive a proposed policy that meets our underwriting criteria, the policy will be issued. At that point, we will be bound to insure against the losses covered by the policy.

 

(4) Fourth, and in addition to automatic underwriting rules and parameters built into the policy processing system, we anticipate that we will likely take steps, to the extent possible, to monitor and evaluate each agent’s book of business with a view to evaluating how the policies sold impact our underwriting risks. While we anticipate establishing systems and procedures that will allow us to effectively monitor and evaluate each agent and the policies that they sell, we may approve, on a selective basis, certain policies that fall outside of our automatic underwriting rules and parameters. To the extent possible, we plan to establish and monitor our underwriting activities but we cannot assure you that we will successfully avoid losses or claims on policies that were improperly issued.

 

Systems

 

If we are successful in this offering and implement our plans, we intend to utilize WaterStreet Company’s on-line policy and claims administration system, “Aquant”. We believe that this will enable us to provide our policyholders, a friendly, efficient quoting and binding system for our independent agents, which we believe, is likely a critical success factor in today’s insurance company business model. This may allow us to compete with larger carriers. We intend to exploit any competitive advantages.

 

 

Outsourcing

 

 

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We have entered into two agreements with WaterStreet Company and we plan to use WaterStreet to provide administrative services to our company in processing premiums, issuing insurance policies, and handling claims.

 

We were introduced to WaterStreet by Gregg Barrett, our Assistant Secretary, Director, and a shareholder. Mr. Barrett is also President of WaterStreet but except for this shared affiliation, there are no other relationships between our company and our management, on the one hand, and WaterStreet, on the other hand.

 

WaterStreet is a privately held company that provides the same types of administrative services to four other property and casualty insurance companies whose operations are primarily in the following states: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. WaterStreet has four existing property and casualty insurance company clients. They are: Coral Insurance Company, Edison Insurance Company, Imperial Fire and Casualty Insurance Company and North Pointe Insurance Company. WaterStreet processed 40,000 policy transactions in 2005 and it anticipates that will process 80,000 in 2006 without including that may be processed through our company. During the past twelve months, WaterStreet processed over $70,000,000 in claim payments and over $30,000,000 in premium payments for its existing clients.

 

For each of its clients, WaterStreet provides each of its insurance company clients with customized and separate toll-free 800 telephone numbers, post office boxes, and enterprise software (using separate servers), and customer service staff dedicated to serving and processing a client’s premiums, policies, and claims. WaterStreet provides these and related services using large scale Neopost mailing equipment, full imaging, Captaris facsimile servers, and OCR software customized for each of its clients and integrated into client underwriting, premium and claim processing activities.

 

WaterStreet has a full I.T. staff available including a network administrator, a database specialist, developers, and tech support staff. Overall, we plan to use WaterStreet’s enterprise software, systems, and staff, as customized to fit our needs, to provide these needed administrative services to us on a similar outsource basis. WaterStreet will provide us with a dedicated customer service team to handle all inquiries and processing from insurance agencies, agent, and our planned insureds.

 

WaterStreet’s management team averages 15 years of experience in the insurance and/or technology fields and many of its staff hold state insurance licenses and designations. WaterStreet is based in Big Fork, Montana and has 20 employees. WaterStreet has been in this business since 2000.

 

The two agreements that we have with WaterStreet are as follows. Both agreements are to commence within 30 days from the date that we receive the Certificate of Authority from the Florida Department of Insurance Regulation.

 

1.

Policy Administration Full Service Agreement

 

Under the terms of the Policy Administration Full Service Agreement, WaterStreet is to provide us with policy administration and claims services and other services. By outsourcing to WaterStreet, we believe that we may better able to minimize our up front costs for systems implementation while allowing us to better serve to our planned policyholders. We believe that this strategy may better allow us to:

 

Achieve greater leverage on real time, enterprise-wide systems and services at a fraction of what it would cost to build on our own;

 

Enter new markets using sophisticated technology;

 

Better control over internal operational costs by obtaining qualified, trained and licensed personnel without the

overhead required to maintain a permanent staff;

 

Better achieve top-rated customer service standards and practices; and

 

Allow us to focus on core business strategies rather than routine daily operational tasks.

 

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Under the terms of this agreement, WaterStreet has agreed to provide policy administration services to us, as follows:

 

(A) access and use of a real-time company wide system that will allow us to manage and administer the insurance policies that we plan to issue;

 

(B) provide for policy issuance, renewal, endorsement, cancellation, and non-renewal and rating functions for our planned insurance policies;

 

(C) prepare and transmit invoices to our planned insureds, collect and transmit premium payments received to us (less certain disbursements made on our behalf and less amounts due WaterStreet);

 

(D) calculate and pay commissions generated from the sale of our insurance policies and invoice and receive the return of commissions on return premium transactions;

 

(E) prepare and issue federal tax statements for commissions paid to our insurance agents;

 

(F) provide us with full on-line access and reports on all policies, premiums, claims, and payment information;

 

(G) provide staffing, systems, and equipment to work with our Chief Financial Officer for accounting and financial functions (such as posting, balancing, and control of premium receivables, accounting and payment of agent’s commissions, issuance and control, and accounting for disbursements for premium refunds, commissions, claims, and general expenses, bank reconciliations, accounting, reporting, payment and collection for reinsurance, required bureau and statistical reporting to the statistical agent appointed by us; data to support preparation of any required state premium, municipal, 1099, and escheat tax returns; and reasonable and customary financial management reports produced by the general ledger utilized by the administrator; and

 

(H) any third party services, such as, but not limited to, ISO services, loss reports, credit reports/scoring, replacement cost estimators, inspections, investigators, engineers fees and costs, all legal fees, travel expenses for WaterStreet employees and fees for incidental reports where the latter are our direct costs and for which we are obligated to reimburse WaterStreet promptly.

 

The term of the agreement with WaterStreet is 60 full calendar months commencing on the date that we receive our Certificate of Authority from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. The agreement also contains an automatic renewal provision which provides that the term of the agreement will be renewed for an additional 60 months unless we give WaterStreet written notice of intent not to renew 180 days prior to the end of any then existing term. The agreement also provides that in the event that WaterStreet is found to be liable for any damages suffered by us, the maximum aggregate amount of any liability is limited to $500,000 and WaterStreet shall not be liable to us for any indirect, special, or consequential damages, including but not limited to lost profits, lost business, payments to third parties (including cover) or other economic loss arising out of the agreement or the services rendered by WaterStreet, whether in contract or tort or law or equity.

 

In exchange for these services, the agreement calls for us to pay WaterStreet, the following amounts:

 

$55.00 as annual fee per policy (subject to a reduction of $1.00 per policy for every 10,000 policies in force or $49.00 per policy, whichever is greater);

 

$5,000 per month as an administrative fee;

 

A commission of 5% of any direct premiums received if WaterStreet serves as the

licensed agent on any orphan or house account business; and

 

For any services provided by WaterStreet not specifically provided in the Agreement, a

 

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fee equal to time and materials basis at the rate of $95.00 per person hour.

 

2. Claims Administration Services Agreement

 

We also entered into a Claims Administration Services Agreement with WaterStreet. Under this second of the two agreements, WaterStreet has agreed to provide us with claims administration services, including the following:

 

(A) Receive and process loss notices received from our planned insureds via electronic, fax, or telephone within one business day of receipt;

 

(B) Review and verify coverage for claims submitted by our planned insureds to set reserves and a claim file within one business day of receipt and to arrange for a claims adjuster to be assigned and begin making contact with claimants each day until a contact is achieved with written correspondence to be mailed the day of assignment advising the claimant of contacts and general procedural information.

 

(C) Investigate all reported claims to the extent that we deem reasonably necessary, determine and evaluate any coverage issues in connection with the claims and refer the same to us or our legal counsel with recommendations and deny coverage for those claims which we reasonably determine, should be denied.

 

(D) Adjust, handle, or settle to a conclusion claims in accordance with state law and the terms of the policies issued to the insured.

 

(E) Settle claims up to $50,000 per claim with all claims in excess of $50,000 may be settled only upon written approval by us.

 

(F) Adjust all claims only through adjusters who are currently licensed and who are either independent or an employee of WaterStreet.

 

(G) When authorized by us, to appoint independent legal counsel as necessary to provide legal services as part of the investigation of claims and/or the determination of policy coverage applicable.

 

(H) Prepare checks, vouchers, drafts, compromise agreements, releases, and other documents reasonably necessary to pay claims, close out claims, and pay authorized fees and legal expenses on behalf of us.

 

(I) Review outstanding claim reserves monthly and recommend any changes to such reserves.

 

(J) Record and report each loss and ALAE expense paid.

 

(K) Report loss information to ISO Claim Search, or any other loss reporting service to which we subscribe.

 

(L) Coordinate any third party or litigation related services.

 

(M) Prepare and distribute required federal and state 1099 filings.

 

(N) Report suspected fraud as required by any applicable statute or regulation in the state(s) where the policies are issued.

 

(O) Promptly notify us of: (1) any loss or claim resulting in a lawsuit being instituted against them or us; (2) any complaint filed with any insurance department or other regulatory authority relating to any loss or claim; (3) any claim which may involve a coverage dispute; (4) any loss which may result in a loss payment in excess of $50,000; (5) any claim open for more than 2 months or which involves extra contractual allegations or is in excess of policy limits; and (6) any suspected fraud or any allegation of “bad faith” in claims handling against WaterStreet or us.

 

(P) Undertake customary salvage or subrogation to pursue recovery of loss expenditures.

 

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(Q) Maintain licenses in good standing with such authorizations and permits needed for compliance with applicable laws.

 

(R) Maintain a catastrophe response team to respond to catastrophic events with such to include such services as may be needed to respond to catastrophic events.

 

(S) Provide all standard reports using WaterStreet’s claims administration system and any additional reports or report modifications as identified during the initial 90 days of said agreement at no additional charge to us. After the initial 90-day period, we have agreed to pay separately for these additional reports.

 

In exchange for these services, we have agreed to pay WaterStreet, on a monthly basis and on or before the 15th day of each month, the following amounts:

 

 

1.

A Loss Adjustment Expense fee equal to 4% of the incurred loss suffered by an insured claiming losses covered by our planned policies in addition to the following adjuster fee schedules:

 

 

Daily Loss Adjustment Fee Schedule

 

 

Range (Gross Amount of Loss)  

Amount

 

 

Phone Claim, CWOP

$

0

Closed Without Payment (on-site visit)

 

(includes lack of coverage, no damage, or pre-existing damage)

150.00

 

 

$0 - $2,500.00

325.00

 

 

$2,500.01 - $7,500.00

475.00

 

 

$7,500.01 - $15,000.00

650.00

 

 

$15,000.01 - $35,000.00

900.00

 

 

$35,000.01 - $50,000.00

1,150.00

 

 

$50,000.01 - $100,000.00

2.50%

 

$100,000.01 – and up

2.00%

 

Catastrophic Loss Expense (100 or more claims from single event)

 

 

Range (Gross Amount of Loss)  

Amount

 

 

$0 - $1,000.00

$225.00

 

 

$1,000.01 - $2,500.00

300.00

 

 

$5,000.01 - $7,500.00

425.00

 

 

$7,500.01 - $10,000.00

575.00

 

 

$10,000.01 - $15,000.00

750.00

 

 

$15,000.01 - $25,000.00

850.00

 

 

$25,000.01 - $35,000.00

1,000.00

 

 

$35,000.01 - $50,000.00

1,250.00

 

 

$50,000.01 - $150,000.00

3.00%

 

$150,000.00 - $500,000.00

2.50%

 

$500,000.01 – and up

2.00%

 

 

2.

A minimum Administrative Fee of $5,000 per month and for any other services provided by WaterStreet not specifically set forth in the agreement, WaterStreet is to be paid on a time and materials basis at the rate of $95 per person per hour.

 

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The agreements with WaterStreet also provides that except for fees and claims payable to WaterStreet or acts of fraud or willful misconduct, in the event that either party breaches its obligations to the other, that the non-breaching party shall be entitled to receive as damages, an amount not greater than $500,000. The agreements with WaterStreet may be terminated by either party and upon giving the other party 180 days written notice.

 

Underwriting

 

We believe that underwriting is the heart of the insurance business. We anticipate that underwriting will help us determine who our target insurance customers will be, what our product’s will be, and what price our products will be sold. To that extent, we believe that our success will likely depend on our underwriting skills and our ability to effectively execute our strategy.

 

We believe that if we can successfully implement clear underwriting guidelines that are easy to understand, our agents should be able to better able to identify marketing and sales opportunities. We plan to establish procedures that will allow an agent to offer policies only if underwriting parameters established by us can be satisfied unless an exception is made by us. Most importantly, in addition to the superior underwriting and software technologies employed, we intend to use dedicated underwriters working on each product, analyzing risks and making sure we accept only quality policy submissions.

 

We anticipate that if we are successful, we plan to utilize technology at several levels in an attempt to control the underwriting risks. We believe that WaterStreet Company’s Aquant System will offer policy servicing system/software packages that may have many advanced capabilities that support our overall strategy, such as:

 

 

Web-based rating, quoting and binding that includes real-time artificial-intelligence based policy data entry. Comprehensive underwriting rules are built into the system. All entry items are intended to be validated and cross-matched against all applicable rules. We plan to block quotes that do not meet our underwriting criteria and take steps to prevent any issuance of an insurance policy until we can confirm that all policy information we have received is correct and has been reviewed. We also plan to suspend underwriting automatically in the event of an approaching hurricane and take steps to prevent this suspension from being overridden by an underwriter.

 

We also plan to take steps that will allow the system to determine if the insurance company has reinsurance capacity in a zip code for the new exposure. We plan to take steps that will allow us to not accept new business when predetermined aggregate exposure levels (on a per zip code basis) have been reached.

 

We plan to implement a system that will directly bill our policyholders and monitor cash handling.

 

The design of the system provides an integrated claims processing function. Coverage information is clarified as claims are set up. The system contains online file notes and future diary data. Open claim reserves are automatically assigned a future diary date. Integrated imaging allows all input data to be automatically imaged for future reference. The system controls check payment authorizations. Premium and prior loss history can be compared to determine if a particular discount is justified at policy renewal.

 

The system will be designed to provide, to the extent possible, web based standard reports, as well as the capability to produce ad-hoc reports.

 

In addition to rating, quoting and binding, we anticipate that the system will allow us to handle policy issuance, endorsement processing and policy renewal processing.

 

The system will also allow us to coordinate data for regulatory reporting and accounting needs and integrates with an internet service provider.

 

Sales and Marketing

 

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We plan to employ the following marketing strategies.

 

Our strategy is to develop and retain, to the extent possible, a sufficient number of independent agents who may have the ability to sell our insurance policies and produce insurance premiums. We currently estimate that we will need 100 to 200 or more insurance agencies to produce a sufficient volume of insurance premiums that will allow us to implement our business plans. If market conditions allow and if our marketing efforts are successful, we currently anticipate that it may take six to nine or more months after we commence operations before we may able to generate sufficient premium revenues to implement our business plan.

 

Initially, we plan to appoint agencies in selected counties in the southern half of Florida. We will look to appoint agencies based on prior working relationships with our sales and marketing staff, need for representation in geographical locations, recommendations from state and regional insurance associations, referrals, and other factors.

 

We anticipate hiring sales support and marketing staff to explain our homeowners insurance policies to insurance agents and train them on how to write and submit policies to us. As currently planned, we anticipate scheduling our sales support and marketing staff to periodically visit agents that sell our policies for the purpose of developing and maintaining a more effective working relationship with the agents and motivating them to produce a satisfactory volume of business. We estimate that initially we may need to hire between one and two or more persons to serve in our sales support and marketing staff for the first year of operations.

 

Advertising and Promotion

 

We believe that advertising and promotion will be important to us if we are to effectively implement our plans. We anticipate emphasizing certain channels that we believe offer effective communication about our company and products. As our financial resources allow and as our operations, require, we have the following plans:

 

 

We intend to develop and place ads in state print and online trade publications, i.e. Insurance Journal, National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA), and Independent Insurance Agents Association (IIAA).

 

 

We plan to create product literature for marketing reps to use when making agency visits and appointments, including product brochures, fact sheets, educational and training materials.

 

 

We plan to write and distribute media releases with pertinent corporate news to top state and local newspapers, trade publications and industry associations.

 

 

We plan to attend top industry conventions and trade shows to network with existing contacts and develop new relationships with key prospects, such as the Florida Association of Insurance Agents and Florida Professional Insurance Agents.

 

Reinsurance

 

We plan, to the extent that we are able, to obtain reinsurance coverage at such levels and such amounts as we believe are prudent in light of then existing market conditions and evaluations of the risks that we face. If we are successful in entering into reinsurance agreements, we anticipate that these agreements will likely be structured around the mandatory coverage provided by the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, with commercial excess catastrophe reinsurance and multiple line quota share reinsurance supporting the program. We plan to obtain reinstatement premium coverage to protect against reinstatement premiums that would be payable in the event of a loss.

 

To the extent that our systems and information allow, we plan to closely monitor our aggregate and territorial distributions with the assistance of our planned reinsurance intermediary, John B. Collins Associates, Inc. and the use of state-of-the-art computer modeling technologies and mapping software designed to assist in evaluating reinsurance adequacy. Although we plan to use John B. Collins Associates, Inc. , we have not yet entered into an

 

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agreement to retain them. We plan to adhere closely to established underwriting guidelines. It is our plan to maintain reinsurance catastrophe coverage at the level of one in a 100 year hurricane event, based on several insurance industry accepted models.

 

The planned multiple line quota share reinsurance program may allow us to write more business and thereby allow us an opportunity to write more policies to generate additional insurance premium revenues. We intend to enter into a 50% quota share program. Quota share reinsurance currently would reimburse us for a proportional share of our claims expenses, both individual claims as well as claims from catastrophic events, such as hurricanes, and operating expenses in return for a proportional share of premiums. To the extent that we are successful in obtaining quota share reinsurance, we may able to better to enhance and protect our capital surplus.

 

We plan to purchase catastrophe reinsurance above a $1 million retention with a limit of protection to a 100 year probable maximum loss, as determined by insurance industry accepted models. We are required by Florida statute to purchase catastrophe reinsurance to the 100 year event, as determined by the models, and submit annual evidence to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation that such coverage has been obtained. Conditions in the reinsurance marketplace, pricing and availability, may not allow us to purchase catastrophe reinsurance down to a $1 million retention. We plan to utilize the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund to its fullest extent when purchasing our catastrophe reinsurance because it is much more economical than commercial reinsurance. It is our intent to purchase commercial reinsurance to cover the remaining exposure in the 100 year modeled event. In other words, it is our intent to purchase catastrophe reinsurance to protect us 100% on losses above $1 million up to the one in 100 year event, as determined by insurance industry computer models.

 

It is our plan to place the reinsurance coverage with high quality (A- or higher rated by A.M. Best), financially secure reinsurance companies. Our established competitors have historically been able to obtain reinsurance similar to our plans. However, there are no guarantees that we will be able to obtain and maintain the intended reinsurance or if we do, that it can be obtained at a cost that is financially reasonable. In addition, even if we are able to obtain and maintain reinsurance with high quality reinsurance companies at a cost that is financially reasonable in light of the insurance premiums that we plan to generate, we cannot assure you that any reinsurance company that has provided us with reinsurance will possess sufficient financial resources to protect us from the losses covered by the reinsurance agreement with them. In that event, we may suffer catastrophic financial losses and possible bankruptcy and insolvency.

 

We are also aware that our planned reinsurance program may not fully protect us from the risks we face, particularly

from excessive losses from catastrophes, most notably hurricanes. While we intend to monitor and evaluate our underwriting rules and parameters and to purchase reinsurance to at least the one in a hundred year probable maximum loss (as determined by insurance industry approved computer models), it is possible that one or more major hurricanes (such as one that would equal or exceed a Katrina level hurricane) could hit one or more sections of Florida where we may have a concentration of our insurance on homes that causes more damage than the one projected as a hundred year event. In that event we would have only our existing capital to cover losses above the upper limit of our reinsurance, which may not be adequate to allow us to remain in business. Further, in the event that multiple major hurricanes hit one or more sections of Florida in an area where we have significant exposure under our policies, we could be exposed to significant claims with losses that may place our company at a distinct risk of becoming bankrupt or insolvent. Further and in this and other contexts, we cannot assure you that one or more of any reinsurance companies with whom we may enter into reinsurance agreements with will not become financially insolvent and unable to meet and pay amounts due us under the terms of our planned reinsurance agreements. In these scenarios, the reinsurance agreements that we plan to enter into will likely be of little value in protecting our capital and protecting us from claims in excess of the risk assessments that we made previously. This too exposes us to the distinct risk of becoming bankrupt or insolvent.

 

We believe that our competitors historically have purchased reinsurance similar to our plans. However, we cannot assure you that we will be able to purchase reinsurance at the levels or in amounts that we plan or, if we can obtain such reinsurance, that we will be able to do so at costs that are financially cost-effective. The cost of reinsurance fluctuates and likely will depend on the perception of risk determined by reinsurance carriers, competition among reinsurance carriers, and other factors beyond our control. To the extent that reinsurance costs are found to be

 

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excessive, our business plans may not be commercially viable, we may incur substantial losses due to excessive claims from our policyholders and we may be exposed to risks that, at minimum, will likely result in extreme volatility in our financial performance and possible bankruptcy and insolvency.

 

Market Analysis

 

According to the latest information from the U.S. Census Bureau, both the Florida population and number of housing units have grown steadily over the past five years. In 2003, the homeownership rate was slightly above 70% and the median value of owner occupied housing units was nearly $150,000.

 

We believe that the Florida insurance consumer is likely both cost and quality conscious. Our review of the existing marketplace suggests that many buyers of homeowners insurance seek to avoid purchasing a policy from Citizens, the state insurance pool, where customarily premiums are high (and slated to increase significantly more) and service is relatively poor. We believe that consumers seek to purchase policies written through a reliable insurance company that will provide courteous, professional customer service and prompt claim payments in the even of a loss. We plan to target single family homes, condos and dwellings, 30 years and newer in Florida, with replacement cost limits from $100,000 to $500,000 for all policy types. We believe this to be middle market, which has traditionally been a very desirable risk. Wherever possible, we will attempt to avoid accepting policies on homes that present physical hazards such as those inherent in the buildings’ construction, occupancy, protection and external exposures. In other words, homes that are in a state of disrepair or are unkempt. As circumstances and underwriting procedures allow, we intend to limit our exposure to policyholders who we believe may increase the probability of a loss due to carelessness or indifference to potential loss, tolerance of dangerous conditions, or a history of losses caused by careless accidents.

 

Pricing

 

We plan to offer insurance policies at rates (the prices at which we offer insurance) that accurately reflect our perception of each insured’s share of predicted losses. If we are successful, our insurance rates may allow us to generate sufficient revenues from our premiums to pay for losses covered by our policies, our administrative and other expenses, to execute our strategy.

 

We anticipate that, if we can execute our strategy successfully, our insurance rates will reflect the exposure to loss presented by the insured that we assume under our planned policies. We anticipate that insureds with similar loss exposure will be grouped together in a single rating class and charged the same rate. Although other insureds may be grouped in a different rating class and charged a different rate, that rate will likely reflect the group’s exposure to loss.

 

In setting insurance premiums, we will attempt, wherever possible, to evaluate projected expenses we expect for losses covered by our planned policies. Any projection of the amount of claim expenses covered by our planned policies will be uncertain. In general, we anticipate that our premiums will likely reflect our assessment on the following factors:

 

expected administrative costs of our operations;

 

predicted claim expenses;

 

reinsurance costs

 

a margin for error and a charge for profits and contingencies; and

 

the amount we predict that we can earn on investment income on funds held to fund future claims.

 

All of these assessments involve estimates that we intend to make and for which we cannot be certain they are or will be accurate. If we underestimate our administrative costs, our claim expenses, the margin for profit and

 

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contingencies, or any combination of them, we will likely incur losses. Further, if over-estimate our investment income, it will decrease profitability. The timing and magnitude of these losses, if they occur cannot be predicted with any accuracy. In addition, if one or more of these estimating errors occurs at or in close proximity to a natural or man-made disaster of any significant size will also adversely impact us and may cause us to lose our ability to remain a viable in the insurance business. The Florida home insurance market is subject to claims arising out of hurricanes and other natural and man-made disasters. The timing and magnitude of these disasters cannot be predicted with any certainty.

 

Overall and to the extent that we are able, we plan to base pricing on sound actuarial projections, not subject to change with sudden market fluctuations. However, we believe that certain counties in Florida, due to erratic competition, may provide more opportunities than other counties and we plan to focus on those areas that offer greater opportunity.

 

Investment Income

 

We recognize that if this offering is successful and if we become a licensed insurance company in Florida, the insurance premiums we collect from our anticipated policyholders will likely be used, in part, to pay insured claims on the policies we plan to offer. In this respect, we have continuing fiduciary responsibilities under Florida law, to invest available funds (derived from surplus and premiums) to generate additional income.

 

We intend to rely upon third parties to provide portfolio management services in managing our planned portfolio from the funds received, if any, from this offering. Currently, we have identified Wachovia Securities, LLC, a division of Wachovia Bank, N.A. and Mairs & Powers, Inc. as suitable candidates to provide portfolio management services in managing our planned portfolio from the funds received, if any, from this offering. We have not entered into any agreement with either of these firms but we anticipate that if this successful, we will enter into negotiations with them. Our plan is to have Wachovia handle our short-term investments and Mairs & Powers to manage our long term investments (investments with a maturity greater than six months). To the extent that market conditions and other factors allow, we plan to invest our funds in high quality fixed income investments with an emphasis on liquidity. Our goal is to obtain sufficient return on our capital and meet our obligations to pay anticipated claims filed by our planned insureds.

 

Competition

 

We anticipate that we will face intense competition from many established insurance companies each of whom have significantly greater financial, managerial, and marketing resources, as well as an established presence in Florida with insurance brokers, consumers, and re-insurance carriers. These include such prominent companies as:

 

 

American Strategic Insurance.

 

Federated National (part of 21st Century Insurance Company).

 

Florida Family.

 

Florida Select.

 

Tower Hill Preferred and Prime.

 

Cypress.

 

St. Johns.

 

Universal. Insurance Company of North America

 

Universal Insurance Company

 

Coral Insurance Company

 

Edison Insurance Company

 

These and other competitors have the ability to utilize the advantage of their existing name recognition, existing relationships with insurance agents, reinsurance carriers, and others in the Florida marketplace. For example, American Strategic Insurance is well-established in Florida with a large base of existing homeowners, commercial, and property and casualty insurance. This company and other established insurance companies exploit these

 

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advantages effectively and many of them have a sophisticated understanding of the Florida market. They also have an established business with revenues that allows them to compete aggressively.

 

Overall, the intensity of this competition may serve to severely limit our ability to: (A) enter certain geographic areas within Florida; (B) offer certain types of insurance products; (C) attract talented brokers and marketing personnel; (D) obtain reasonable reinsurance rates from reinsurance carriers comparable to that obtained by our competitors; and (E) develop a sufficient and sustainable volume of insurance premium revenues. As a new company with plans to enter the Florida home insurance market, we do not anticipate that these and other aspects of competition will lessen at any time if we are able to commence operations.

 

We recognize that Florida faces a continuing threat of hurricanes - which will likely have a direct, significant, and continuing impact our planned business. Hurricanes can destroy homes, condominiums, commercial buildings, and the infrastructure of roads and public utilities over a large area with catastrophic results. The magnitude of the destruction can be so substantial that one or more areas that are “hit” by a hurricane can be left uninhabitable for months or more. The result can be property damage in the billions of dollars. In fact, in recent years and during the June through November hurricane season, Florida has had the experience of being “hit” by multiple hurricanes with property damage levels that were unprecedented. Moreover, the number, timing, magnitude, and location of any damage by a hurricane cannot be predicted with precise accuracy. Since our planned business is to offer home owners insurance policies that provide coverage for losses incurred as a result of such natural and certain man-made disasters, we fully appreciate that we will face a continuing challenge to establish underwriting parameters for the insurance policies that we issue.

 

We anticipate that we may be able to address these challenges by taking the following steps:

 

1)     Pricing Policies. In pricing our policies (that is, in setting premium levels), we intend to carefully evaluate perceived risks and exposure levels in each geographic area. In making these pricing decisions, we will rely upon information that we obtain from other sources and we recognize that this involves estimates with respect to the uncertainties of imperfect information and dealing with unknown events and possibilities relating to both the timing and magnitude of claims that may arise at any time during the period of an insurance policy. To address the perceived uncertainties and risks, we plan to employ the latest catastrophe modeling technology to manage the catastrophe risk exposure associated with the Florida insurance market. We also plan to evaluate the pricing offered by our competitors in each market area. However, in making all of these decisions, we cannot assure you that our estimates, the catastrophe modeling technology, and our evaluations of the perceived risks and exposure levels will be accurate which would allow us sufficiently to achieve profitability or, if we achieve profitability, that we will maintain it for any period of time.

 

2)     Underwriting Standards. In setting underwriting standards, including evaluating proposed insureds and setting deductibles, we will attempt to reasonably limit our exposure, whenever possible, to claims in light of existing competition, market trends, and an evaluation of the anticipated amounts and types of claims. We will carefully spread our risks geographically within Florida using computer models, in order to limit our probable maximum losses from hurricanes. This will keep our reinsurance costs at levels that may allow acceptable levels of profitability and reduce our financial exposure from hurricanes. While we anticipate that we can carefully monitor underwriting risks, we are aware that these risks change over time and we cannot assure you that we can successfully control or predict the risks and financial exposures that we face.

 

3)     Purchase of Reinsurance. It is our plan to purchase reinsurance from large, financially secure reinsurance companies to significantly limit our exposures to hurricanes. Historically, our competitors have been able to purchase reinsurance, as we are planning, at rates that allow for acceptable profitability and reasonable financial security. However, we cannot assure you that we will be able to successfully implement the reinsurance program on a cost effective basis.

 

4)     Management of Investments. We will attempt to effectively manage our planned investments through careful selection of money and portfolio management third party professionals that will offer us an opportunity to diversify and limit our exposure to financial losses on our investments while also providing needed liquidity to meet

 

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anticipated claims made by our insureds. As a new company entering a new business, we cannot assure you that we will be successful in achieving a profitable return on our investments.

 

5)     Reliance Upon WaterStreet Company. We plan to rely upon WaterStreet Company to provide us with administrative, policy, underwriting and claims processing services. We believe that is a cost effective strategy that will serve to eliminate our need to purchase up front systems to implement our business plan. We believe that this will also allow us to focus our limited resources to implement our overall plans.

 

Employees

 

As of May 19, 2006, we had no full-time employees and no part-time employees. Two officers, Stephen L. Rohde, President, Treasurer, and Director, devote approximately 70 hours per month to our business affairs while Stephen W. Dick, Vice President, devotes an average of approximately 27 hours per month to our business affairs.

 

We have also entered into consulting agreements with Stephen L. Rohde and Stephen W. Dick that allows us to receive certain services from them pending the outcome of our efforts to raise funds in this offering.

 

Consulting Agreement with Stephen L. Rohde

 

On July 11, 2005, we entered into a consulting agreement with Stephen L. Rohde. Under the terms of the agreement, Mr. Rohde agreed to provide such consulting services as we determine appropriate and as requested which would enable us to begin operation as a domiciled Florida insurance company. Mr. Rohde further agreed to provide us with up to 80 hours of consulting services per month (except that in case of August 2005, the number of hours was reduced to 60 hours that month). In addition, in the event Mr. Rohde expends additional time in excess of 80 hours per month, we agreed to compensate him at the rate of $100 per hour for each additional hour. Notwithstanding these provisions, we agreed that during the period from July 11, 2005 to August 8, 2005, we agreed to pay him $125 per hour for his time during that period only. Overall, and subject to the foregoing, we agreed to pay Mr. Rohde, the following as consulting fees: (A) $7,000 per month on or before the first day of each month (except for the month of August when $5,250 was paid on or before August 8, 2005). The agreement with Mr. Rohde may be terminated at any time upon thirty days written notice.

 

Consulting Agreement with Stephen W. Dick

 

We have entered into an oral consulting agreement with Stephen W. Dick. This agreement was entered into on April 18, 2005. Under the terms of the agreement, Mr. Dick agreed to provide the following services to us: (1) advising and assisting us with developing rates, preparing forms, and underwriting manual, and competitive analysis. In exchange for these services, Mr. Dick is paid $100 per hour. The agreement may be terminated by

either party and upon 30 days notice to the other.

 

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY

 

We currently maintain our offices at 3001 N Rocky Point Dr East, Ste 200 Tampa, FL 33607 which provides us with limited access and usage of office facilities in an office suite facility. Our annual cost under the lease is currently $2,100.

 

DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTERS AND CONTROL PERSONS

 

The Directors and Executive Officers of the Company as of May 19, 2006 were as follows:

 

Name

Age

Position

 

Date elected(1)

 

Philip R. Hardy

56

Chairman of the Board

 

1/13/06

Stephen L. Rohde

54

President, Treasurer, & Director

 

4/22/05

Stephen W. Dick

64

Vice President

 

1/23/06

Gregg Barrett

42

Assistant Secretary & Director

 

4/22/05

Richard V. Atkinson

45

Director

 

1/13/06

 

 

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William N. Majerus, Esq,

57

Director

 

1/13/06

Joseph J. Pingatore, Esq.

54

Secretary and Director

 

1/13/06

 

Each director serves until the next annual meeting of shareholders.

 

Philip R. Hardy joined the Company on November 1, 2005. He was elected Chairman of the Board on January 13, 2006. During the period from 1968 to 1984, Mr. Hardy was, at various times, President, owner, and founder of several travel agencies in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Hardy served as President, owner, and founder of Crystal Mountain Water Company of Mobile, Alabama. From 2005 to the present, Mr. Hardy serves as President, owner, and founder of ProClaim Solutions, LLC of Mobile, Alabama. Mr. Hardy is a Certified Travel Consultant (since 1972) and is a licensed insurance adjuster in the states of Alabama, Florida, and Texas. Mr. Hardy attended the University of South Alabama.

 

Stephen L. Rohde joined the Company on April 22, 2005. He currently serves as our President, Treasurer, and Director. From 1996 to the present, Mr. Rohde serves as a Director of Direct General Corporation of Nashville, Tennessee where he has also served as Chairman of the Audit Committee since 2003. From 2004 to the present, Mr. Rohde has served as President of S. Rohde Associates, Inc. in providing consulting services to the insurance industry. From 2003 to the present, Mr. Rohde has served as Director of Lion Insurance Company of Holiday, Florida. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Rohde served as Director of EOMB Holding Company of Fort Worth, Tennessee. From June 1990 to January 2004, Mr. Rohde served as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer of Mutual Service Insurance Companies where he served on the management committee and participated in establishing policies, strategic goals, and overall management of the company with assets in excess of $1 billion. From May 1986 to June 1990, Mr. Rohde served as Vice President, Controller, and Treasurer of Mutual Service Insurance Companies. From July 1983 to May 1986, Mr. Rohde served as Director – Cost and Budget for Mutual Service Insurance Companies. From April 1981 to July 1983, Mr. Rohde served as Assistant Controller for IDS Life where he directed a staff of 17 in the company’s general accounting and investment accounting functions. From April 1980 to April 1981, Mr. Rohde served as Manager – Corporate Accounting for IDS Life. From July 1979 to April 1980, Mr. Rohde served as Manager – Accounting Research and Development for IDS Life. From May 1977 to July 1979, Mr. Rohde served as Accounting System Coordinator for IDS Life of New York. From April 1975 to May 1977, Mr. Rohde served as Supervisor – Accounting and Treasury for IDS Life. From December 1973 to April 1975, Mr. Rohde served as Senior Accountant for IDS Life. From June 1973 to December 1973, Mr. Rohde served as Accounting Trainee for IDS Life. Mr. Rohde holds a B.S. Degree (Accounting and Business Administration) from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire (1973). In addition, Mr. Rohde is a Fellow of the Life Management Institute, has published articles in insurance industry publications, and has served as a speaker and panelist in insurance industry meetings and seminars.

 

Gregg Barrett joined the Company on April 22, 2005. He currently serves as Assistant Secretary and Director. From 1999 to present, Mr. Barrett serves as President of WaterStreet Company of Bigfork, Montana where he directs the company’s strategy, software design, and new program development. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Barrett served as Vice President – Corporate Development for National Food Services of Kalispell, Montana where he coordinated acquisitions, developed programs for customer segments. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Barrett served as Executive Vice President – Marketing for Bankers Insurance Group of St. Petersburg, Florida where he expanded nationwide sales from $92 million to $490 million and developed a geographic expansion team, product development and pricing, and decreased product cycle time from two years to eight months. From 1993 to 1994, Mr. Barrett served as a Marketing Representative for Prudential Insurance Company. From 1986 to 1993, Mr. Barrett served as Vice President of Operations for National Food Services of Chicago, Illinois. From 1985 to 1986, Mr. Barrett served as a Staff Accountant at CR Industries of Long Grove, Illinois. Mr. Barrett holds a B. S. Degree (Accounting) from Illinois State University and is a Certified Public Accountant in Montana.

 

Stephen W. Dick joined the Company on January 23, 2006. He currently serves as Vice President. From 2003 to the present, Mr. Dick serves as an insurance consultant where he has assisted personal lines insurance company clients with advice and assistance in loss cost analysis, competitive analysis, development of pricing, and

 

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underwriting strategies, creation of rates and rules, and management reports. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Dick served as Director of Underwriting and Product Development for QualSure Insurance Corporation of Sarasota, Florida where he was responsible for product line analysis, product development, and underwriting management. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Dick served as Product Manager and Director of Residential Lines at Seibels Bruce Group, Inc. of Columbia, South Carolina. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Dick served as Account Manager and Business Systems Specialist at CIGNA Information Services, Inc. of Voorhees, New Jersey. From 1975 to 1992, Mr. Dick served in various managerial capacities at INA/CIGBNA Regional and Home Office Management. Mr. Dick holds a B.S.B.A. Degree from Drexel University and served as a Captain in the United States Army (honorably discharged).

 

Richard V. Atkinson was elected to the Company’s Board of Directors on January 13, 2006. He currently serves as a Director. Mr. Atkinson has been employed as an Actuary since 1982. From 2002 to the present, Mr. Atkinson serves as Vice President, Chief Property & Casualty Actuary for Horace Mann Educators Corporation. From 1991 to 2002, Mr. Atkinson was employed by Mutual Service Insurance Companies, where he was also Vice President, Chief Property & Casualty Actuary. From 1988 to 1991 Mr. Atkinson was employed by Deloitte and Touche. From 1982 to 1988 Mr. Atkinson was employed by NWNL General Insurance Company. Mr. Atkinson’s has held a wide variety of responsibilities for property and casualty insurance companies, including exposure management, reinsurance procurement, business planning and forecasting, product pricing, product development, and reserving. Mr. Atkinson holds a B.A. Degree from the University of Minnesota-Morris (1982), where he was awarded Scholar of the College. Mr. Atkinson holds an M.B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Business (2001). Mr. Atkinson is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He has authored and co-authored papers presented to the Casualty Actuarial Society Forum and the Casualty Actuarial Society Discussion Paper Program.

 

William N. Majerus, Esq. joined the Company on January 13, 2006. He currently serves as a Director. Mr. Majerus has experience in insurance law, litigation, arbitration, insurer-agent relationships, and property losses. He is licensed to practice law in Minnesota and is a member of the Minnesota State and Hennepin County Bar Associations. He is a member of the panel of arbitrators for the Hennepin County District Court and the American Arbitration Association. From 1999 to 2005, he served as an investigator for the Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility. Mr. Majerus holds a B.A. Degree from the University of St. Thomas and a J.D. Degree from Hamline University School of Law.

 

Joseph J. Pingatore, Esq. joined the Company on January 13, 2006. He currently serves as Secretary and Director. From 2005 to the present, Mr. Pingatore has served as Vice President and General Counsel for Western National Insurance Group of Edina, Minnesota. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Pingatore served as Vice President, Senior Counsel,

And Assistant Secretary for Country Insurance & Financial Services/MSI Insurance of Bloomington, Illinois/Arden Hills, Minnesota. From 1987 to 2001, Mr. Pingatore was employed by MSI Insurance Companies where he served as Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary from 1997 to 2001, Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary from 1995 to 1997, Senior Counsel and Claims Counsel from 1991 to 1995, and Claims Counsel from 1987 to 1991. From 1983 to 1987, Mr. Pingatore was a partner at Klampe, Pingatore & Nordstrom, Attorneys at Law of Rochester, Minnesota. From 1981 to 1983, Mr. Pingatore was an Associate Attorney at Brown, Bins, & Klampe, Attorneys at Law of Rochester, Minnesota. Mr. Pingatore holds a B.G.S. Degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota and a J.D. Degree (cum laude) from William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul Minnesota. Mr. Pingatore is admitted to practice in the State of Minnesota, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, and the United Stats Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is also a Member and Secretary-Treasurer of the Minnesota Insurance Federation and holds an appointment to the American Arbitration Association Panel of Arbitrators.

 

Board Matters

 

We are not subject to listing requirements of any national securities exchange or national securities association and, as a result, we are not at this time required to have our board comprised of a majority of “independent directors.” We do believe that a majority of our directors currently meet the definition of “independent” as promulgated by the rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ.

 

 

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

Summary Compensation Table

 

The following table sets forth information concerning the compensation received for the period from the date of the Company’s incorporation on April 22, 2005 through December 31, 2005 for services rendered to the Company in all capacities by the Company's Chief Executive Officer and any officer with total annual salary and bonus over $100,000 per year.

 

 

 

Annual Compensation

Long Term Compensation
Awards

 

Name and principal position

Year

Salary
($)

Bonus
($)

Other annual
compensation
($)

Restricted
stock
award(s)
($)

Securities
Options/SARs
(#)

Philip R. Hardy, Chairman

2005

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

Gregg Barrett, Assistant Secretary & Director

2005

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

Stephen L. Rohde, President, Treasurer & Director

2005

-0-

-0-

$47,293(1)

-0-

-0-

Stephen W. Dick, Vice President

2005

-0-

 

-0-

$16,376(1)

-0-

-0-

Richard V. Atkinson, Director

2005

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

William N. Majerus, Esq., Director 

2005

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

Joseph J. Pingatore, Esq., Secretary & Director

2005

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

Total (7 persons)

2005

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

-0-

 

(1) Amounts shown were paid in accordance with consulting agreements between the company and the individual shown. A portion of these payments represent amounts paid to reimburse expenses.

 

The following tables show for the period ending December 31, 2005, certain information regarding options granted to, exercised by, and held at year end by, the Named Executive Officers:

 

 

 

Individual Grants

 

 

 

 

Name

 

Number of Securities
Underlying Options/
SARs Granted (#)

 

% of Total Options/
SARs Granted to
Employees in Fiscal Year

 

Exercise Or
Base Price
($/Sh)

 

Expiration
Date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

None.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock Option Exercises and Fiscal Year-end Values

 

The following table presents information for the Named Executive Officers with respect to stock options exercised during fiscal year 2005 and unexercised options held as of the end of the fiscal year.

 

 

Aggregated Option Exercises In Fiscal Year 2005 And Fiscal Year End Option Values

 

 

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Name

Shares
Acquired On
Exercise
(#)

Value
Realized
by
Company
($)

Number of Securities
Underlying
Unexercised Options at
Fiscal Year End 11/30/04
Exercisable/Unexercisable

Exercise Price Value of
Unexercised In-the-Money
Options at Fiscal Year End
($)Exercisable/Unexercisable

None.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compensation of Directors

 

Our bylaws do not prohibit us from compensating directors for services related to their membership in board committees and allow the reimbursement of expenses of directors for their attendance at each meeting of our board of directors. We currently plan to pay our outside directors compensation of $20,000 per year for their services to the company. We have not granted any stock options to any of our officers, directors, or any other persons, but we may grant such options in the future.

 

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

 

The following table sets forth, as of May 30, 2006, certain information as to shares of our common stock owned by (i) each person known to beneficially own more than 5% of the outstanding common stock, (ii) each of our directors, and named executive officers, and (iii) all of our executive officers and directors as a group. Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each named beneficial owner is the same as that of our principal executive offices located at 3001 N Rocky Point Dr East, Ste 200 Tampa, FL 33607.

 

Name and Address of
Beneficial Owner (1)

Number of Shares
Beneficially Owned (2)

Percentage of Class
Beneficially Owned

Philip R. Hardy, Chairman

3,500,000

10.41%

Gregg Barrett Assistant Secretary and Director

3,500,000

10.41%

Stephen L. Rohde, President, Treasurer and Director

1,000,000

2.97%

Stephen W. Dick, Vice President

200,000

0.59%

Richard V. Atkinson, Director

200,000

0.59%

William N. Majerus, Esq., Director

200,000

0.59%

Joseph J. Pingatore, Esq., Secretary and Director

200,000

0.59%

All executive officers and directors as a group (7 persons)

8,800,000

26.17%

Akron Associates, Inc.

2,000,000

5.95%

Last Chance Real Estate, Inc.

3,700,000

11.00%

George Barton

3,500,000

10.41%

EMH Advisory Services, Inc.

2,500,000

7.43%

Ron Moschetta

3,150,000

9.37%

Phoenix Holdings

3,500,000

10.41%

Ivan Turner

3,500,000

10.41%

StarInvest Group, Inc.

1,000,000

2.97%

 

 

(1)

The address for each of the persons listed above is the Company’s address as disclosed in this Prospectus. Beneficial ownership has been determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act. Pursuant to the rules of the Commission, shares of common stock that each named person and group has the right to acquire within 60 days pursuant to options, warrants, or other rights, are deemed outstanding for purposes of computing shares beneficially owned by and the percentage ownership of each such person and group. Applicable percentages are based on shares outstanding on May 30, 2006, adjusted as required by rules promulgated by the SEC.

(2)

Unless otherwise noted, all shares listed are owned of record and the record owner has sole voting and investment power, subject to community property laws where applicable.

 

 

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

 

On April 28, 2005, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the issuance of a $125,000 promissory note to StarInvest Group, Inc. in exchange for the company’s receipt of $125,000 in cash from StarInvest. The note issued to StarInvest is unsecured, carries an interest rate of 6% (simple interest), and all accrued and unpaid interest and principal is due and payable March 1, 2008.

 

On October 17, 2005, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the issuance of a $50,000 promissory note to EMH Advisory Services, Inc. in exchange for the company’s receipt of $50,000 in cash from EMH. The note issued to EMH is unsecured, carries an interest rate of 6% (simple interest), and all accrued and unpaid interest and principal is due and payable March 1, 2008.

 

On February 17, 2006, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the issuance of a $25,000 promissory note to David L Cohen, Inc. in exchange for the company’s receipt of $25,000 in cash from David L Cohen. The note issued to David L Cohen is unsecured, carries an interest rate of 6% (simple interest), and all accrued and unpaid interest and principal is due and payable March 1, 2008.

 

On February 2, 2006, the Company’s Board of Directors issued the following shares of our common stock in payment for the services rendered to the company as follows: (A) 3,500,000 shares to Philip R. Hardy, Chairman of the Board in consideration of his services in developing the company’s business plan and in evaluating alternative strategies for the company; (B) 3,500,000 shares to Gregg Barrett, Assistant Secretary and Director in consideration of his services in developing the company’s business plan and in evaluating alternative strategies for the company; (C) 1,000,000 shares to Stephen L. Rohde for assistance in coordinating, licensing of insurance company activities and in selecting management and the Board of Directors; (D) 200,000 shares to Stephen W. Dick, Vice President for advising the company in developing rates, underwriting guidelines, and forms; (E) 200,000 shares to Richard Atkinson for actuarial and financial advice; (F) 200,000 shares to William N. Majerus, Director, in consideration of his regulatory advice to the company; and (G) 200,000 shares to Joseph J. Pingatore, Secretary and Director in consideration for his corporate governance advice to the company. All of the shares issued were valued at $0.0024 per share.

 

On May 15, 2006, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the issuance of a $10,000 unsecured promissory note to Gregg Barrett in exchange for the company’s receipt of $10,000 in cash from Mr. Barrett. The note issued to Mr. Barrett, a Director of the Company, is unsecured, carries an interest rate of 6% (simple interest), and all accrued and unpaid interest and principal is due and payable April 11, 2008.

 

On May 15, 2006, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the issuance of a $10,000 unsecured promissory note to George E. Barton in exchange for the company’s receipt of $10,000 in cash from Mr. Barton. The note issued to Mr. Barton is unsecured, carries an interest rate of 6% (simple interest), and all accrued and unpaid interest and principal is due and payable April 11, 2008.

 

On May 15, 2006, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the issuance of a $10,000 unsecured promissory note to Phillip R. Hardy in exchange for the company’s receipt of $10,000 in cash from Mr. Hardy. The note issued to Mr. Hardy is unsecured, carries an interest rate of 6% (simple interest), and all accrued and unpaid interest and principal is due and payable April 11, 2008.

 

On the same date, the Company’s Board of Directors also issued the following shares of our common stock in payment for the services rendered to the company as follows: (A) 3,500,000 shares to George Barton in consideration of advisory services on new clams methodology, and consulting services; (B) 200,000 shares to Kelly King in consideration for his assistance in selecting legal counsel and developing the financial model; (C) 200,000 shares to Jeff Lawrence in consideration of his assistance in evaluating the Florida market; (D) 25,000 shares to Michael Poujol in consideration for consulting services received by the company; (E) 25,000 shares to John A.

 

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Martel in consideration for consulting services received by the company; (F) 25,000 shares to Robert H. Cole in consideration for his consulting services; (G) 1,500,000 shares to David L. Cohen in consideration for his consulting services; (H) 3,500,000 shares to Phoenix Holdings in consideration for their consulting services; (I) 3,150,000 shares to Ron Moschetta in consideration for the company’s receipt of financial advisory services; (J) 3,500,000 shares to Ivan Turner in consideration for his advice and guidance regarding claims adjusting procedures; (K) 2,500,000 shares to EMH Advisory Services, Inc. in consideration of public relations services; (L) 2,000,000 shares to Akron Associates, Inc. in consideration of consulting services; (M) 1,000,000 to Star Invest in consideration for consulting services; and (N) 3,700,000 shares to Last Chance Real Estate in consideration for consulting services. All of the shares issued were valued at $0.0024 per share.

 

DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

 

The following description summarizes some of the terms of our capital stock and provisions of our Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, which are attached as an exhibit to this Registration Statement, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to our Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws.

 

Our authorized capital stock consists of 100,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share and 10,000,000 shares of our preferred stock $0.0001 par value per share. The preferred stock may be issued, from to time, in one more series, as determined solely by our Board of Directors without any action necessary on the part of our stockholders. As of the date of this prospectus, there were 33,625,000 shares of our common stock outstanding and held of record by 21 holders. We have not issued any shares of our preferred stock and we have no current plans to do so.

 

Common Stock

 

Holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote per share on all matters to be voted upon by the stockholders. The holders of our common stock are entitled to receive such lawful dividends as may be declared by our board of directors. In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, the holders of shares of our common stock shall be entitled to receive pro rata all of our remaining assets available for distribution to our stockholders. There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the common stock. All outstanding shares of common stock are fully paid and non-assessable, and shares of common stock to be issued pursuant to this registration statement will be fully paid and non-assessable.

 

Preferred Stock

 

Our board of directors has the authority, without further action of the shareholders, to issue up to 10,000,000 shares of our preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions thereof, including dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption, liquidation preferences, and the number of shares constituting any series or the designation of such series. The issuance of preferred stock could adversely affect the voting power of holders of our common stock and could have the effect of delaying, deferring, or preventing a change in control of our company. We have no present plans to issue any shares of our preferred stock.

 

Transfer Agent and Registrar

 

The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is anticipated to be U.S. Stock Transfer Company, Glendale, California.

 

SELLING STOCKHOLDER

 

We are registering the resale of up to 2,500,000 shares of our common stock on behalf of EMH Advisory Services, Inc., the selling stockholder named below. The selling shareholder will not undertake the sale of its shares until such time as: (i) the Company has achieved the minimum offering of $8,500,000 of gross proceeds from this offering

 

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and sale of the shares and (ii) a market is established in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The selling shareholder has agreed to refrain from selling any of its shares until such time as we have achieved a minimum of $8,500,000 of proceeds from the sale of our shares hereby. The selling stockholder intends to sell its shares at $1.00 per share.

 

The following table identifies the selling stockholder and indicates (i) the nature of any position, office or other material relationship that the selling stockholder has had with us during the past three years (or any of our predecessors or affiliates) and (ii) the number of shares and percentage of our outstanding shares of common stock owned by the selling stockholder prior to the offering, the number of shares to be offered for the selling stockholder's account and the number of shares and percentage of outstanding shares to be owned by the selling stockholder after completion of the offering.

 

 

 

Name of Selling Stockholder(3)

Shares
Beneficially Owned Prior
To Offering(1)

Percent
of Class of Shares Owned Before the
Offering(2)

Maximum No. of Shares to be Sold in this
Offering

Total Shares Owned After This Offering

If Minimum Offering Achieved

%

If Maximum Offering Achieved

%

 

EMH Advisory Services, Inc.

2,500,000

7.43%

2,500,000

0(4)

0%

0(4)

0%

 

(1)

Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with SEC rules and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. Shares of common stock subject to options and convertible preferred stock currently exercisable or convertible, or exercisable or convertible within sixty (60) days, are counted as outstanding for computing the percentage of the person holding such options but are not counted as outstanding for computing the percentage of any other person. Based 33,625,000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of May 30, 2006. The sole stockholder of EMH Advisory Services, Inc., Geraldine Tauscher.

 

(2)

Assumes that the selling shareholders sells all of its shares in this offering.

 

We have entered into a consulting agreement with the selling stockholder whereby the selling stockholder performs certain public relations and other consulting services. The shares issued to the selling stockholder are in consideration for the consulting services provided and to be rendered and the consulting agreement included a tag-along or “piggyback” registration provision for up to 2,500,000 of the shares issued to the selling stockholder, which registration rights have been exercised by the selling stockholder for the registration of its shares included in this prospectus.

 

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

 

All of the 15,000,000 shares of our common stock that are offered by the company will be sold directly by our officers and directors. Our officers and directors will not receive or earn any compensation from the sale of the shares. We are relying upon Rule 3a4-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the sale of the shares offered hereby.

 

We have not entered into any agreement with any underwriter for the offering and sale of the common stock that we seek to sell and we have no current plans to engage the services of any underwriter for this offering.

 

The selling stockholder may offer all or a portion of its 2,500,000 shares offered by this prospectus for sale, from time to time, pursuant to this prospectus, in one or more private negotiated transactions, in open market transactions in the over-the-counter market, or otherwise, or by a combination of these methods, at fixed prices, at

 

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market prices prevailing at the time of the sale, at prices related to such market prices, at negotiated prices or otherwise. The selling stockholder may effect these transactions by selling shares directly to one or more purchasers or through broker-dealers or agents.

 

To our knowledge, the selling stockholder has not made any arrangements with any brokerage firm for the sale of the shares. The selling stockholder has advised us it presently intends to dispose of the shares through broker-dealers in ordinary brokerage transactions at market prices prevailing at the time of the sale. However, depending on market conditions and other factors, the selling stockholder may also dispose of the shares through one or more of the other methods described above.

 

The selling stockholder may be considered an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act in connection with the sale of his shares. Any broker-dealers or agents who act in connection with the sale of the shares may also be deemed to be underwriters. Profits on any resale of the shares by the selling stockholder and any discounts, commissions or concessions received by such broker-dealers or agents may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act. Because the selling stockholder may be considered to be an underwriter within the meaning of Section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act, the selling stockholder may be subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act for transactions involving the sale of our common stock.

 

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale by the selling stockholder of its 2,500,000 shares of common stock. Neither the Company nor any of its officers or directors will assist the selling shareholder in the sale of its shares. The selling shareholder has agreed to refrain from selling any of its shares until such time as we have achieved a minimum of $8,500,000 of proceeds from the sale of our shares hereby. The selling stockholder intends to sell its shares at $1.00 per share.

 

The selling stockholder is subject to the applicable provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations thereunder, including Regulation M. Regulation M may limit the timing of purchases and sales of any of the shares of our common stock by the selling stockholder and any other person distributing our common stock. Furthermore, Regulation M may restrict the ability of any person engaged in the distribution of shares of our common stock to engage in market-making activities with respect to the particular shares of common stock being distributed for a period beginning five business days prior to the commencement of such distribution and ending upon such person's completion of participation in the distribution. All of the foregoing may affect the marketability of our common stock and the ability of any person or entity to engage in market-making activities with respect to our common stock. Rules 101 and 102 of Regulation M, among other things, generally prohibit certain participants in a distribution from bidding for, purchasing or inducing any person to bid for or purchase any of the securities that are the subject of the distribution. Rule 104 of Regulation M governs bids and purchases made to stabilize the price of a security in connection with a distribution of the security.

 

The shares offered by the selling stockholder are being registered pursuant to our contractual obligations to the selling stockholder and we have agreed to pay the expenses of the preparation of this prospectus. In the event that we are able to achieve the minimum offering, the sale of shares by the selling shareholder may negatively impact our ability to sell additional shares after the minimum offering is achieved. The selling activity by the selling shareholder may also divert potential subscribers from purchasing our shares or put downward pressure on the overall trading levels for our shares in the after-market.

 

Escrow Agent

 

We have entered into an Escrow Agreement with Wilmington Trust Company to serve as the escrow agent for the proceeds received until the minimum of $8.5 million of gross proceeds from our sale of shares hereby is satisfied. Under the terms of the escrow agreement, all proceeds received, if any, from this offering shall be deposited with the escrow agent until the earlier date at which we have received and accepted subscriptions for an aggregate of at least $ 8,500,000 in gross proceeds or 90 days from the commencement of the offering which date may be extended for an additional 30 days by us. Upon receipt and acceptance of subscriptions aggregating $8,500,000 in gross proceeds within the allotted time period, all additional funds received and accepted, if any, shall

 

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be immediately released to us and deposited into our general bank account all of which shall be available for use us. There can be no assurance that we will obtain any funds from this offering.

 

No escrow arrangement has been or will be established with respect to the sale of shares by the selling stockholder.

 

DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION FOR SECURITIES ACT LIABILITIES

 

Our certificate of incorporation provides for our indemnification, to the fullest extent permitted or authorized by Florida general corporate law, of any officer, director, employee or agent of our company with respect to claims arising or asserted against such person by reason of him or her being or having been an officer, director, employee or agent of our company. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, known as the “Act,” is permitted to our directors, officers and controlling persons, pursuant to the foregoing provisions or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.

 

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

 

The validity of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus has been passed upon for us by the Law Offices of William M. Aul, San Diego, California.

 

EXPERTS

 

The financial statements as of and for the period commencing and ending December 31, 2005 included in this prospectus have been audited by Hamilton Misfeldt & Company, P.C., independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report dated February 15, 2006 which is also included in this prospectus. Such financial statements have been so included in reliance upon the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

INTEREST OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

 

No expert or counsel named in this prospectus as having prepared or certified any part of this prospectus or having given an opinion upon the validity of the securities being registered or upon other legal matters in connection with the registration or offering of the common stock was employed on a contingency basis, or had, or is to receive, in connection with the offering, any interest, direct or indirect, in our company or any of our subsidiaries. Nor was any such person connected with us, or any of our subsidiaries, as a promoter, managing or principal underwriter, voting trustee, director, officer, or employee.

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

 

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form SB-2 under the Securities Act of 1933, relating to the shares of our common stock being offered by this prospectus. For further information pertaining to our common stock and the shares of common stock being offering by this prospectus, reference is made to such registration statement. This prospectus constitutes the prospectus we filed as a part of the registration statement and it does not contain all information in the registration statement, certain portions of which have been omitted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC.

 

In addition, we will be subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and, in accordance with such requirements, we will be required to file reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC relating to our business, financial statements and other matters.  Reports and proxy and information statements filed under Section 14(a) and 14(c) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and other information filed with the SEC as well as copies of the registration statement can be inspected and copied at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549, and at the SEC’s Midwest Regional Offices at 500 West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. Copies of such material can also be

 

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obtained at prescribed rates from the Public Reference Section of the SEC at its principal office at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1.800.SEC.0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference room. Such material may also be obtained electronically by visiting the SEC's web site on the Internet at http://www.sec.gov. We anticipate that our common stock will be quoted on The OTC Bulletin Board Market under the symbol ______.

 

 

Copies of our filings with the SEC will also be available, free of charge at www.sec.gov.

 

 

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INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

F2

Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2005

F3

Statement of Income and Accumulated Deficit

F4

Statement of Cash Flows

F5

Notes to the Financial Statements

F6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT

 

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA

 

We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of Premier Indemnity Holding Company (a development stage entity) as of December 31, 2005, and the related statements of income and accumulated deficit, and cash flows for the period from inception (April 1, 2005) to December 31, 2005. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

 

We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and the significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Premier Indemnity Holding Company as of December 31, 2005, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the initial period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

 

HAMILTON MISFELDT & COMPANY, P.C.

Great Falls, Montana

 

February 15, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(A Development Stage Entity)

 

BALANCE SHEET

 

December 31, 2005

 

 

 

 

ASSETS

 

CURRENT ASSETS

 

Cash

$

3,976

 

 

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS

3,976

 

DEFERRED TAX ASSET

47,468

 

 

TOTAL ASSETS

$

51,444

 

 

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

 

CURRENT LIABILITIES

 

Accounts payable

$

60,525

 

 

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES

60,525  

 

LONG-TERM DEBT

175,000

 

STOCKHOLDERS= EQUITY

Common stock, par value $1 per share; 100 million

 

shares authorized, none issued or outstanding

-

 

Accumulated deficit during the development stage

(184,081)

 

 

TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS= EQUITY

(184,081)

 

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND

 

STOCKHOLDERS= EQUITY

$

51,444

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(A Development Stage Entity)

 

STATEMENT OF INCOME AND ACCUMULATED DEFICIT

 

For the Period April 1, 2005 (Date of Inception) to December 31, 2005

 

 

Revenue

$

-  

 

Expenses

 

Organization costs

231,549

 

 

TOTAL EXPENSES

231,549

 

 

LOSS BEFORE INCOME TAXES

(231,549)

 

Provision for income taxes

47,468

 

 

NET LOSS

(184,081)

 

Accumulated deficit during the development stage,

 

beginning of year

-    

 

Accumulated deficit during the development stage,

 

end of year

$ (184,081)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEE ACCOMPANYING NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

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PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(A Development Stage Entity)

 

STATEMENT OF INCOME AND ACCUMULATED DEFICIT

 

 

For the Period April 1, 2005 (Date of Inception) to December 31, 2005

 

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

 

Net loss

$ (184,081)

Adjustments to reconcile net loss

 

to net cash used by operating activities

 

Increase in:

 

 

Deferred tax asset

(47,468)

 

Accounts payable

60,525

 

 

 

Net cash used by operating activities

(171,024)

 

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES

 

Proceeds from long-term debt

175,000

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

175,000

 

NET INCREASE IN CASH

3,976

 

 

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD

-  

 

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD

$ 3,976

 

SCHEDULE OF NONCASH INVESTING ACTIVITIES

 

There were no noncash investing activities for the nine month period ended December 31, 2005.

 

 

SEE ACCOMPANYING NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

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PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(A Development Stage Entity)

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

December 31, 2005

 

 

 

Note 1:

Summary of significant accounting policies

 

Nature of operations - Premier Indemnity Holding Company (PIHC) is a development stage entity incorporated in the state of Florida, in 2005. PIHC has two wholly owned subsidiaries, Premier Indemnity Associates, Incorporated (PIAI) and Premier Indemnity Insurance Company (PIIC). PIHC bylaws and articles of incorporation have been approved by the state of Florida and start-up costs have been incurred. PIAI bylaws and articles of incorporation have been approved, but no transactions have been completed. Florida state approval of the bylaws and articles of incorporation of PIIC are pending and no activity has taken place.

 

The primary business is to sell homeowners insurance to Florida residents. As of December 31, 2005, operations of the Corporation had not yet begun.

 

Basis of presentation – These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP) using the accrual method of accounting.

 

Financial statements – The statement of income and accumulated deficit and statement of cash flows reflect the cumulative activity of PIHC from inception of the Corporation (April 1, 2005) through December 31, 2005.

 

Cash and cash equivalents - For purposes of the statement of cash flows from inception of the Corporation through December 31, 2005, PIHC considers all short-term instruments purchased with a maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. There are no cash equivalents at December 31, 2005.

 

 

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PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(A Development Stage Entity)

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

December 31, 2005

 

 

 

Note 1:

Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

 

Investments – While PIHC had no available funds to invest at December 31, 2005, the Corporation anticipates having available funds to invest in the future. The Corporation’s investment portfolio will be primarily exposed to interest rate risk and to a lesser extent market and credit risk. The fair value of the portfolio will be directly impacted by changing interest rates, market conditions and financial conditions of the issuer. The Corporation will examine its portfolio on at least a quarterly basis for evidence of impairment with a particular emphasis on those securities with unrealized losses that satisfy certain conditions. Some of the factors that the Corporation will consider in evaluating a security for other-than-temporary impairment include the duration and extent to which the fair value has been less than amortized cost, the reasons for the unrealized loss, including market conditions or changes in the financial condition of the issuer, and the Corporation’s ability and intent to hold the investment until maturity, or at least until there is a recovery in fair value. If the investment is to be sold prior to maturity, it will be classified as an available-for-sale security. Available-for-sale securities will be carried at fair value. Unrealized gains and losses on investment securities available-for-sale are based on the difference between book value and fair value of each security. These unrealized gains and/or losses will be credited or charged to other comprehensive income, whereas realized gains and/or losses will be recognized in PIHC’s net income.

 

Revenue recognition – Insurance premiums will be earned pro rata over the terms of the respective policies. The reserve for unearned premiums will be determined on a daily pro rata basis.

 

 

 

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PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(A Development Stage Entity)

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

December 31, 2005

 

 

 

Note 1:

Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

 

Insurance losses and loss adjustment expense reserves – Insurance losses and loss adjustment expense reserves represent the estimated ultimate net cost of all unpaid reported and unreported losses incurred through December 31. The loss and loss adjustment expense reserves will be estimated on an undiscounted basis, using individual case-basis valuations and statistical analyses. Those estimates, which will be reported net of anticipated salvage and subrogation, will be subject to the effects of trends in loss severity and frequency. Although considerable variability is inherent in such estimates, management believes the loss and loss adjustment expense reserves will be adequate. The estimates will be continually reviewed and adjusted as necessary as experience develops or new information becomes known; such adjustments will be included in current operations.

 

Reinsurance – Reinsurance premiums, losses and loss adjustment expenses will be accounted for on a basis consistent with those used in accounting for the original policies issued and the terms of the reinsurance contracts. Ceding commissions will be recognized net of a provision for return commissions on anticipated cancellations and the amount necessary to cover future maintenance costs.

 

Organizational costs - Organizational costs incurred during the development stage consist of legal, accounting, and consulting fees, as well as travel costs. In accordance with Statement of Position 98-5, these costs have been expensed as incurred.

 

Deferred policy acquisition costs – Acquisition costs associated with new and renewal insurance coverage will be capitalized and amortized over the respective in force periods of the policies. Policy acquisition costs include certain underwriting and direct sales costs incurred (e.g. advertising, commissions, and premium taxes) in connection with writing business.

 

 

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(A Development Stage Entity)

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

December 31, 2005

 

 

 

Note 1:

Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

 

 

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Income taxes – Income taxes are provided for the tax effects of the transactions reported in the financial statements and consist of taxes currently due, plus or minus deferred taxes or tax benefits. Deferred taxes or benefits represent the future tax consequences of temporary differences that have been recognized in different periods for financial reporting purposes than for income tax purposes.

 

Share-based compensation payments – The Corporation anticipates issuing shares of common stock in exchange for services rendered by individuals and/or companies during the Corporation’s development stage. In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 123(R), PIHC has adopted a fair-value-based method to account for these share-based compensation payments. Under this method, compensation costs of stock awards will be measured at fair value and expensed over the period services will be provided in exchange for the award.

 

Use of estimates – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Such estimates and assumptions could change in the future as more information becomes known that could impact the amounts reported and disclosed herein.

 

Note 2:

Deferred tax asset

 

PIHC accounts for income taxes in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 109, whereby the deferred tax asset represents the tax effects of taxable temporary differences between financial statement reporting and income tax reporting. The temporary differences arise from expensing for financial statement reporting purposes organizational costs incurred versus the capitalization and amortization of those costs for income tax reporting purposes.

 

Note 3:

Long-term debt

 

Long-term debt at December 31, 2005 consists of notes due to related parties, unsecured, interest at 6% per annum, principal due in full March 1, 2008:

 

 

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(A Development Stage Entity)

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

December 31, 2005

 

 

 

 

Due to Star Invest Group, Inc.

 

 

future investor

$ 125,000

 

 

Due to EMH Advisory Services, Inc.,

 

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future investor

50,000

 

 

$ 175,000

 

Note 4:

Reinsurance

 

The Corporation will cede premiums and risks of loss to other insurance companies under quota share, excess of loss, and catastrophe forms of reinsurance agreements. Catastrophe reinsurance coverage is maintained at the level of one in a 100-year hurricane event, based on several insurance industry accepted models. The ceded reinsurance agreements will provide the Corporation with increased capacity to write additional business while limiting its exposure to loss within its capital resources.

 

The Corporation will evaluate the financial condition of its reinsurers and will monitor various credit risks to minimize its exposure to significant losses from reinsurer insolvencies. The Corporation will remain obligated for amounts ceded in the event that the reisurers do not meet their obligations.

 

Note 5:

Common stock

 

As of December 31, 2005, no shares of common stock have been issued. PIHC is authorized to issue 100 million shares of common stock. As of December 31, 2005, an independent appraisal has valued each share of PIHC common stock at $.0024 per share. On February 2, 2006, PIHC issued 33,625,000 shares of common stock as share-based compensation payments for services rendered from the date of inception through January 31, 2006.

 

Note 6:

Subsequent events

 

On February 2, 2006, PIHC issued shares of common stock in exchange for services rendered by related parties from the date of inception through January 31, 2006. The value of shares issued, $.0024 per share, was established from an independent appraisal performed by a certified business valuator as of December 31, 2005. Shares issued and the fair value of those shares, based on the fair value of services rendered, are as follows:

 

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(A Development Stage Entity)

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

December 31, 2005

 

 

 

 

Philip R. Hardy

3,500,000 shares

$ 8,400

 

Gregg Barrett

3,500,000 shares

8,400

 

 

Stephen L. Rohde

1,000,000 shares

2,400

 

 

Stephen W. Dick

200,000 shares

480

 

 

Richard Atkinson

200,000 shares

480

 

 

William N. Majerus

200,000 shares

480

 

 

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Joseph J. Pingatore

200,000 shares

480

 

 

George Barton

3,500,000 shares

8,400

 

Kelly King

200,000 shares

480

 

 

Jeff Lawrence

200,000 shares

480

 

 

Michael Poujol

25,000 shares

60

 

 

John A. Martel

25,000 shares

60

 

 

Robert H. Cole

25,000 shares

60

 

 

David L. Cohen

1,500,000 shares

3,600

 

Phoenix Holdings

3,500,000 shares

8,400

 

Ron Moschetta

3,150,000 shares

7,560

 

Ivan Turner

3,500,000 shares

8,400

 

EMH Advisory Services, Inc.

2,500,000 shares

6,000

 

Akron Associates, Inc.

2,000,000 shares

4,800

 

Star Invest

1,000,000 shares

2,400

 

Last Chance Real Estate

3,700,000 shares

8,880

 

 

33,625,000 shares

$80,700

 

These share-based compensation payments were for services recognized as additional organizational costs expensed in the period the services were rendered. Of the $80,700 paid in 2006, $60,525 was for services provided prior to January 1, 2006.

 

 

 

 

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You should rely only on the information contained in this document or to which we have referred you. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with information that is different. This document may only be used where it is legal to sell these securities. The information in this document may only be accurate on the date of this document.

 

Common Stock

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMARY INFORMATION

4

 

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PROSPECTUS
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Dated: _____, 2006

RISK FACTORS

6

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

10

USE OF PROCEEDS

10

MARKET FOR COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

13

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

14

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY

26

MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

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DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, PROMOTERS AND CONTROL PERSONS

26

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

28

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

29

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

30

DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

31

DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION FOR SECURITIES ACT LIABILITIES

33

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

32

SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

31

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

34

EXPERTS

34

INTEREST OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

34

AVAILABLE INFORMATION

34

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

F1

 

 

EXHIBITS

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Exhibit 10.1

ESCROW AGREEMENT

ESCROW AGREEMENT dated as of this _____ day of April 2006 by and between Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation with principal offices at 3001 North Rocky Point Drive, Suite 200, Tampa, Florida 33607 (the “Company”), Wilmington Trust Company, a financial institution chartered under the laws of the State of Delaware with principal offices at 1100 North Market Street, Mail Code 1625, Wilmington, Delaware 19890 (the “Agent”). As used herein the term “Parties” shall be used to refer to both the Company and the Agent.

WHEREAS:

A.           Subject to compliance with state and federal securities laws, the Company is offering to the public (the “Offering”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and pursuant to state securities laws in the states wherein the Offering is to be conducted, such number of shares (“Shares”) (the “Common Stock”), of the Company as have a maximum aggregate purchase price of $15,000,000 (the “Maximum Offering”) and a minimum aggregate purchase price of $8,500,000 (the “Minimum Offering”).

B.           The Offering will commence upon declaration by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the effectiveness (the “Effective Date”) of the Company’s registration statement pursuant to which the Shares are being registered for the Offering (the “Registration Statement”) and the Company’s compliance with the provisions of the state securities laws in the states in which the Offering is to be conducted immediately and will continue until the earlier to occur of (i) the sale of the maximum number of Shares that compromise the Maximum Offering and (ii) the termination of effectiveness of such Registration Statement, subject, in each case, to the earlier termination of the Offering in the event that the Minimum Offering has not been achieved prior to the expiration of ninety (90) days following commencement of the Offering (unless extended by up to 30 days by the Company) upon notice to the Agent (the “Minimum Offering Period”)

C.           The Parties acknowledge that, if prior to the expiration of the Minimum Offering Period, funds are received and accepted from Subscribers totaling the Minimum Offering, the Company shall conduct an initial closing (the “Initial Closing”) on such funds, and thereafter may conduct one or more closings (each a “Closing”) on the subsequent proceeds received by the Agent from the sale of such Shares.

D.           The Parties acknowledge that tendered subscriptions for all Shares shall be subject to acceptance by the Company, which subscriptions may be reduced in the

 

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sole discretion of the Company or rejected for any reason in the sole discretion of the Company.

E.           The Parties acknowledge that proceeds received upon the subscription for the Shares shall be held in escrow by the Agent pending the Closing on the Units, and disbursed upon the Closing.

F.            If the Minimum Offering is not sold prior to the end of the Minimum Offering Period and there is no Initial Closing, the Offering will be terminated and all funds received from Purchasers will be returned, without accrued interest and without any deduction. The day that the Minimum Offering Period terminates is hereinafter referred to as the “Termination Date.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein contained and intending to be legally bound, the parties hereby agree as follows:

1.     Appointment of Agent. The Company hereby appoints Wilmington Trust Company as escrow agent in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein, and Wilmington Trust Company hereby accepts such appointment.

2.     Delivery of Subscription Proceeds. All checks, drafts, or other instruments received from subscribers as payment for the Shares will be delivered by the Company to the Agent, made payable to “Wilmington Trust Company, as Escrow Agent for Health Rush, Inc.” Prior to each Closing or earlier termination of the Offering, the Company will provide the Agent with a chart setting forth, as to each subscriber, his name, address, social security number or employer identification number, number of Shares subscribed for, and the amount paid in connection with such subscription. The Agent is hereby empowered on behalf of the Company to endorse and collect all checks, drafts, wire funds transfers, promissory notes or other instruments received on account of subscriptions for the Shares.

3.     Agent to Hold and Disburse Funds. The Agent will hold in a special account established for the benefit of the Company and disburse all funds received by it pursuant to the terms of this Escrow Agreement, as follows:

3.1  Disposition of Funds Held by Escrow Agent. All funds received by the Agent pursuant to the terms of this Escrow Agreement shall be held in a non-interest bearing account with the Agent. It is understood that all checks received by the Agent are subject to clearance time, and the funds represented thereby cannot be drawn until such time as the same constitutes good and collected funds.

3.2    If Minimum Offering Achieved. In the event that prior to the Termination Date the Agent has received funds (and such funds are cleared within three business days after the Termination Date) or other instruments in payment for subscriptions from the sale of the Offering in the aggregate amount of at least Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($8,500,000) (the “Minimum Offering”), the Agent will, on the date of the Initial Closing, and any subsequent Closing (the “Closing Date”), pursuant to (a) written instructions signed by the Company and (b) written

 

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confirmation from counsel to the Company that all conditions for the release of the funds have been met, pay to the Company, the proceeds received by the Agent from the sale of such Shares (less the funds the Company is obligated to pay as a fee to the Agent pursuant to Section 7 hereof, unless otherwise paid by the Company).

3.3    If Minimum Offering is Not Achieved. In the event that the Company has notified the Agent in writing that proceeds from the sale of Shares aggregating the Minimum Offering are not received and accepted by the Company prior to the end of the Minimum Offering Offering Period or if no written instructions are received by the Agent from the Company relative to funds received by the Agent from one or more subscribers to the Offering within three business days after the Termination Date, the Agent will return the escrowed funds to each Subscriber without deduction and without interest by check mailed to the address set forth in the chart delivered pursuant to Section 2. The Agent shall assume the Minimum Offering Period terminates ninety (90) days from the Effective Date indicated in the notice from the Company of the commencement of the Offering, unless notified otherwise in writing by the Company or its legal counsel of the Company’s determination to extend the Minimum Offering Period for the additional thirty (30) days.

 

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Exculpation and Indemnification of Agent.

4.1    Duties of the Agent. The Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities other than those expressly set forth herein. The Agent shall have no duty to enforce any obligation of any person to make any payment or delivery, or to direct or cause any payment or delivery to be made, or to enforce any obligation of any person to perform any other act. The Agent shall be under no liability to the other parties hereto or to anyone else by reason of any failure on the part of any party hereto or any maker, guarantor, endorser or other signatory of any document or any other person to perform such person's obligations under any such document. Except for amendments to this Agreement referred to below, and except for instructions given to the Agent by the Company relating to the escrow deposit under this Agreement, the Agent shall not be obligated to recognize any agreement between any and all of the persons referred to herein, notwithstanding that references thereto may be made herein and whether or not it has knowledge thereof.

4.2     Limitation on Liability of Agent. The Agent shall not be liable to the Company or to anyone else for any action taken or omitted by it, or any action suffered by it to be taken or omitted, in good faith and in the exercise of its own best judgment. The Agent may rely conclusively and shall be protected in acting upon any order, notice, demand, certificate, opinion or advice of counsel (including counsel chosen by the Agent), statement, instrument, report or other paper or document (not only as to its due execution and the validity and effectiveness of its provisions, but also as to the truth and acceptability of any information therein contained), which is believed by the Agent to be genuine and to be signed or presented by the proper person or persons. The Agent shall not be bound by any notice or demand, or any waiver, modification, termination or rescission of this Agreement or any of the terms thereof, unless evidenced by a writing delivered to the Agent signed by the proper party or parties and, if the duties or rights of

 

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the Agent are affected, unless it shall give its prior written consent thereto. In the event the Agent receives conflicting instructions hereunder, the Agent shall be fully protected in refraining from acting until such conflict is resolved to the satisfaction of the Agent.

4.3     Responsibilities of Agent. The Agent shall not be responsible for the sufficiency or accuracy of the form of, or the execution, validity, value or genuineness of, any document or property received, held or delivered by it hereunder, or of any signature or endorsement thereon, or for any lack of endorsement thereon, or for any description therein; nor shall the Agent be responsible or liable to the other parties hereto or to anyone else in any respect on account of the identity, authority or rights of the persons executing or delivering or purporting to execute or deliver any document or property under this Agreement. The Agent shall have no responsibility with respect to the use or application by the Company of any funds or other property paid or delivered by the Agent pursuant to the provisions hereof.

4.4    Absence of Written Notice. The Agent shall have the right to assume in the absence of written notice to the contrary from the proper person or persons that a fact or an event by reason of which an action would or might be taken by the Agent does not exist or has not occurred, without incurring liability to the other parties hereto or to anyone else for any action taken or omitted, or any action suffered by it to be taken or omitted, in good faith and in the exercise of its own best judgment, in reliance upon such assumption. Agent shall be entitled to consult with legal counsel in the event that a question or dispute arises with regard to the construction of any of the provisions hereof, and shall incur no liability and shall be fully protected in acting in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.

Other than the actions specifically provided for in Sections 2 and 3 above, the Agent shall not be required to take any action which, in the Agent’s sole and absolute judgment, could involve it in expense or liability in excess of its fees and reimbursable expenses hereunder unless furnished with security and indemnity which it deems, in its sole and absolute discretion, to be satisfactory.

4.5    Right to Withhold Monies. To the extent that the Agent becomes liable for the payment of taxes, including withholding taxes, in respect of any payment made hereunder, the Agent may pay such taxes, provided it has previously given the Company not less than five (5) business days’ written notice, which notice shall have specifically identified such tax liability. The Agent may withhold from any payment of monies held by it hereunder such amount as the Agent estimates to be sufficient to provide for the payment of such taxes actually incurred and not yet paid, and may use the sum withheld for that purpose, provided it has given the Company not less than ten (10) business days’ written notice of its intention to withhold such taxes and an explanation of the basis for such withholding. The Agent shall be indemnified and held harmless against any liability for taxes and for any penalties or interest in respect of taxes, on such investment income or payments in the manner provided in Section 4.6. Any taxes to which the Agent may or shall become liable as a result of any fees or other compensation or remuneration earned or to be earned by the Agent in connection with its serving as

 

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Agent hereunder, and in particular Section 7 below, shall not be included in taxes that may be withheld by the Agent as set forth in this Section 4.5.

4.6    Indemnification of Agent. The Agent will be indemnified and held harmless by the Company from and against any and all expenses, including reasonable counsel fees and disbursements, or loss suffered by the Agent in connection with any action, suit or other proceeding involving any claim, or in connection with any claim or demand, which in any way, directly or indirectly, arises out of or relates to this Agreement, the services of the Agent hereunder, or the monies or other property held by it hereunder; provided, however, that such indemnification shall not extend to proven acts of gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith by the Agent. Promptly after the receipt by the Agent of notice of any demand or claim or the commencement of any action, suit or proceeding, the Agent shall, if a claim for indemnification in respect thereof is to be made against the Company, notify the Company thereof in writing, but the failure by the Agent to give such notice shall not relieve the Company from any liability to indemnify Agent which the Company may have to the Agent hereunder, unless such failure to notify prejudices the Company’s ability to defend such claim on behalf of the Agent. The terms of this Section 4.6 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

4.7    Definition of “Expense or Loss.” For the purposes hereof, the term “expense or loss” shall include all amounts paid or payable to satisfy any claim, demand or liability, or in settlement of any claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding settled with the express written consent of the Parties, and all costs and expenses, including, but not limited to, reasonable counsel fees and disbursements, paid or incurred in investigating or defending against any such claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding.

 

5.

Termination of Agreement and Resignation of Agent.

5.1    Termination Upon Disposition of Monies Held. This Escrow Agreement shall terminate on the final disposition of the monies and property held in escrow hereunder, provided that the rights of the Agent and the obligations of the other parties hereto under Sections 4 and 7 shall survive the termination hereof.

5.2    Resignation of Agent. The Agent may resign at any time and be discharged from its duties as Agent hereunder by giving the Company at least 30 days' notice thereof. Promptly after its resignation, the Agent shall turn over to a successor escrow agent appointed by the Company all monies and property held hereunder (less such amount, if any, as the Agent is entitled to retain pursuant to Section 7) upon presentation to the Agent of the document appointing the new escrow agent and its acceptance thereof, which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld. If no new Agent is so appointed within the 60-day period following such notice of resignation, the Agent may deposit the aforesaid monies and property with any court it deems appropriate.

 

 

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6.

Form of Payments by Agent.

6.1    Payments to Others. Any payments by the Agent to subscribers or to persons other than the Company pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be made by check, payable to the order of each respective subscriber or other person, or by wire transfer.

6.2    Payment in U.S. Dollars. Except as otherwise specifically indicated, all amounts referred to herein are expressed in United States Dollars and all payments by the Agent shall be made in such dollars.

7.     Compensation of Agent. For services rendered, the Agent shall receive as compensation $2,500.00. The Agent shall also be entitled to reimbursement from the Company for all reasonable expenses paid or incurred by it in the administration of its duties hereunder, including, but not limited to, all counsel, advisors' fees and disbursements and all reasonable taxes or other governmental charges upon presentation of supporting documentation, if requested by the Company. It is anticipated that such disbursement shall not exceed $3,500.00 barring any unforeseen circumstances.

8.     Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing, shall be delivered by overnight courier providing a receipt of delivery or by certified or registered mail, postage pre-paid, shall be deemed given (a) when deposited with a commercially recognized overnight courier service/company if sent overnight courier, and (b) on the third day after deposit with the United States Postal Service if sent by registered or certified mail, and shall be addressed to the parties hereto at their respective addresses listed below or to such other persons or addresses as the relevant party shall designate as to itself from time to time in writing delivered in like manner.

 

If to the Company:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Premier Indemnity Holding Company

 

 

Telephone: 813-286-6194

3001 North Rocky Point Drive #200

 

 

Facsimile:

Tampa, Florida 33607

 

 

 

Attn: Stephen L. Rohde, President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

with copy to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William M. Aul, Esq.

 

 

Telephone: 619-497-2555

Law Offices of William M. Aul

 

 

Facsimile: 619-542-0555

7676 Hazard Center Drive, Suite 500

 

 

 

San Diego, California 92108

 

 

 

 

 

 

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if to the Agent:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wilmington Trust Company

 

 

Telephone: 302-636-6449

1100 North Market Street

 

 

Facsimile: 302-636-4149

Wilmington, DE 19890

 

 

 

Attn: Scott Huff

 

 

 

 

9.      Further Assurances. From time to time on and after the date hereof, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Agent such further documents and instruments and shall do and cause to be done such further acts as the Agent shall reasonably request (it being understood that the Agent shall have no obligation to make any such request) to carry out more effectively the provisions and purposes of this Agreement, to evidence compliance herewith or to assure itself that it is protected in acting hereunder.

10.  Consent to Service of Process. The Company and the Agent hereby irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York and of any federal court located in such State in connection with any action, suit or other proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any action taken or omitted hereunder, and waives personal service of any summons, complaint or other process and agrees that the service thereof may be made by certified or registered mail directed to each of the Company and the Agent at its address for purposes of notices hereunder.

 

11.

Miscellaneous.

11.1       If for any reason the escrow deposits are not received by the Agent as contemplated herein, the Company shall reimburse the Agent for all expenses, including reasonable counsel fees and disbursements, paid or incurred by it in making preparations for providing the services contemplated hereby, not to exceed, in the aggregate, $1,000.00.

11.2       This Agreement shall be construed without regard to any presumption or other rule requiring construction against the party causing such instrument to be drafted. The terms “hereby,” “hereof,” “hereto,” “hereunder” and any similar terms, as used in this Agreement, refer to the Agreement in its entirety and not only to the particular portion of this Agreement where the term is used. The word “person” shall mean any natural person, partnership, company, government and any other form of business or legal entity. All words or terms used in this Agreement, regardless of the number or gender in which they are used, shall be deemed to include any other number and any other gender as the context may require. This Agreement shall not be admissible in evidence to construe the provisions of any prior agreement. The rule of

 

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ejusdem generis shall not be applicable herein to limit a general statement, which is followed by or referable to an enumeration of specific matters, to matters similar to the matters specifically mentioned.

11.3       This Agreement and the rights and obligations hereunder of the Company may be assigned by the Company only to a successor to the Company's entire business. This Agreement and the rights and obligations hereunder of the Agent may be assigned by the Agent only to a successor to its entire business. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each party's respective successors, and permitted assigns. No other person shall acquire or have any rights under or by virtue of this Agreement. This Agreement may not be changed orally or modified, amended or supplemented without an express written agreement executed by the Agent and the Company. This Agreement is intended to be for the sole benefit of the parties hereto, and (subject to the provisions of this Section 11.3) their respective successors, and assigns, and none of the provisions of this Agreement are intended to be, nor shall they be construed to be, for the benefit of any third person.

11.4       This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York. The representations and warranties contained in this Agreement shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and any investigations made by any party. The headings in this Agreement are for purposes of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect any of the terms hereof.

12.  Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original as against any party whose signature appears thereon, and all of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument. This Agreement shall become binding when one or more counterparts hereof, individually or taken together, shall bear the signature of all of the parties reflected hereon as the signatures.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this Agreement on the day and year first above written.

 

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY:

 

By:

 

 

Nam:

Scott Huff

 

 

Title:

Vice President

 

THE COMPANY:

 

By:

 

 

Name:

Stephen L. Rohde

 

 

Title:

President and Treasurer

 

 

 

 

 

 

EX-4 5 ex41.htm EXHIBIT 4.1

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[____NUMBER]

 

 

 

 

 

COMMON STOCK

SHARES

 

 

 

[Premier Indemnity Holding Company]

 

 

 

 

 

 

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS

OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CUSIP 740511 10 0

 

This certifies that [NAME]

is the record holder of [NUMBER]

FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK $0.0001 PAR VALUE, OF

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

transferable on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by duly authorized attorney upon the surrender of this certificate properly endorsed. This certificate is not valid until countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar.

WITNESS the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

[SEAL]

 

 

 

/s/ JOSEPH J. PINGATORE

 

 

/s/ STEPHEN L. ROHDE

 

SECRETARY

 

 

PRESIDENT AND TREASURER

 

 

 

 

 

COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED

U.S. STOCK TRANSFER COMPANY

TRANSFER AGENT

AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

 

 

 

 

 

EX-5 6 ex51.htm EXHIBIT 5.1

 

EXHIBIT 5.1

 

William M. Aul

Attorney at Law

7676 Hazard Center Drive, Suite 500

San Diego, California 92108

TEL: 619-497-2555

FAX: 619-542-0555

 

 

 

_________ __, 2006

 

The Board of Directors

Premier Indemnity Holding Company

3001 North Rocky Point Drive, Suite 200

Tampa, Florida 33607

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

I have acted as special legal counsel to Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation (the “Company”) in connection with the public offering of 17,500,000 shares of the Company s common stock, $0.001 par value which includes 15,000,000 shares to be sold by the Company and 2,500,000 shares to be sold by a selling shareholder (collectively, the “Shares”), in connection with a Registration Statement on Form SB-2, (File No. 333-132482), as amended, (“Registration Statement”) which was originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) on March 16, 2006. I am rendering this opinion to you pursuant at your request.

 

Capitalized terms used herein, unless otherwise defined, have the meanings attributed to them in the Registration Statement.

 

1.

Factual Examination.

 

1.1        Documents and Other Information. I have examined and relied on the following documents:

 

 

(a)

the Registration Statement;

 

 

(b)

the Effective and Final Prospectuses;

 

 

(c)

all Exhibits to the Registration Statement;

 

 

 


 

 

(d)         a Certificate of the Office of the Secretary of State for the State of Florida dated _________, 2006 stating that the Company is in good standing and has a legal existence in the State of Florida;

 

(e)         minutes and written consents of the Directors and Stockholders from April 22, 2005 to the present;

 

(f)         an Officer s Certificate executed by the President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company dated as of _________ 2006 (the “Officer’s Certificate”).

 

The documents described in paragraphs (a) through (f) are hereinafter referred to as the “Company Documents.”

 

I have also relied on confirmation pursuant to a telephone conversation with ______________ of the Commission on __________ 2006, that the Registration Statement has been declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as of __.m. on ________ 2006 and that the Company s Registration Statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 has been declared effective as of __.m. on ___, 2006.

 

 

1.2

Scope of Inquiry; Certain Assumptions.

 

(a)         In preparing this opinion, I have examined only those documents indicated above. Whenever the phrase “to my knowledge” appears in the opinions set forth below, it means that, in the course of my investigation described above, no facts have come to my attention in connection with the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement and Prospectus indicating to the contrary.

 

(b)         With your permission, I have assumed (i) the genuineness of all signatures (with the exception of the Company with respect to the Registration Statement) the authenticity of all documents submitted to me as originals, the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to me as drafts or copies, and the authenticity of all such originals; (ii) that each person who is executing or has executed the Registration Statement and Company Documents provided to me are complete and correct copies which contain the entire agreement of the parties thereto necessary for me to render the opinions contemplated herein, and that there are no other documents nor any oral agreements or other circumstances that will or do in any way alter or vary the provisions of the Company Documents.

 

(c)         With your permission I have also assumed (i) that you are duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of your incorporation; (ii) that you are fully authorized and qualified under your charter and bylaws and under federal law and any applicable laws and regulations of the jurisdiction of your incorporation to transact business generally;      

 

 


 

 

(d)         I specifically advise you that, with your consent, I have not conducted a litigation or docket search in respect to any pending items of litigation, but have confirmed through an inquiry of the attorneys in this firm performing legal services for the Company that I do not represent the Company in any matter of the type described in the opinion given in paragraph 2.6 herein, other than as set forth in the Registration Statement.

 

2.            Opinion. On the basis of the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications and assumptions set forth herein, I am of the opinion that, as of the date hereof:

 

2.1        The Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Florida, with full corporate power to own or lease its properties and conduct its business as described in the Final Prospectus, and, to our knowledge, is qualified as a foreign corporation to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in the United States in which the character of the business conducted by it or the location of the properties owned or leased by it makes such qualification necessary.

 

2.2        The authorized, and to our knowledge, issued and outstanding Common Stock of the Company as of ________ 2006 is as set forth under the caption “Capitalization” in the Final Prospectus, and the Common Stock conforms to the description thereof contained under the caption “Description of Securities” in the Final Prospectus. The Shares, upon issuance and delivery and payment therefor in the manner described herein, will be, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. There are no preemptive or other rights to subscribe for or the purchase, or any restriction upon the voting or transfer of, any shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Company s Articles of Incorporation, as amended or Bylaws, or, to my knowledge, any agreement or other instruments to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; and, to our knowledge, neither the filing of the Registration Statement nor the offering or sale of the Shares as contemplated by the Registration Statement gives rise to any rights, other than those which have been waived or satisfied, or relating to the registration of any shares of Common Stock except as to those listed in the Registration Statement under the caption “Selling Stockholder.”

 

2.3        All corporate action on the part of the Company and its directors necessary for the authorization and issuance of the Shares has been taken.

 

2.4        The Registration Statement and all post-effective amendments filed as of the date hereof have become effective under the Securities Act and, to my knowledge, (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and (ii) no proceedings for that purpose have been (a) instituted or (b) are pending before or (c) are contemplated by, the Commission and any and all filings required by the Rules and Regulations have been made. The Registration Statement and the Effective Prospectus and the Final Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto as of their respective effective dates comply in all material respects with the requirements of the

 


 

Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (provided, however, that I express no opinion on the financial statements, schedules, or other financial or statistical data).

 

2.5        All descriptions in the Effective Prospectus and the Final Prospectus of contracts and other documents, and United States statutes, regulations, legal or governmental proceedings are accurate and fairly present the information required to be shown; and, to our knowledge, there are no contracts or documents of a character required to be summarized or described therein or to be filed as exhibits thereto which are not so summarized, described or filed, nor, to our knowledge, is there any pending or threatened litigation or any United States governmental proceeding, statute or regulation required to be described in the Effective Prospectus which is not so described.

 

2.6        To my knowledge, the Company is not in violation of any material rule, regulation, or order issued by the Florida Department of Insurance Regulation with its current business operations.

 

Although I have not independently verified, am not passing upon and do not assume any responsibility for, the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement, on the basis of my participation and conferences with, among others, directors, officers and other representatives of the Company at which the contents of the Registration Statement and related matters were discussed, no facts have come to my attention that have caused me to believe that the Registration Statement (except for any financial statements and notes thereto and the schedules and other financial and statistical data contained therein, as to which I express no opinion) contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in the light of circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

3.            Qualifications and Assumptions. In addition to the matters set forth in Section 1.2 above, my opinion above is subject to and limited by the effect of the following qualifications, limitations and assumptions:

 

3.1        Bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer, marshalling and other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and relating to equitable principles of general application, including but not limited to those matters set forth specifically herein.

 

This opinion relates only to matters as of the date hereof, and I express no opinion with respect to any matter occurring after the date hereof.

 

The opinions herein are limited to the laws of the State of California, the corporate laws of the State of Florida and the federal laws of the United States, each as in effect on the date hereof. I express no opinion with respect to laws becoming effective after the date hereof.

 

 


 

 

This opinion is provided at your request and solely for use by you. This opinion may not be relied upon by any other person or for any other purpose, nor may it be quoted from or referred to, filed with or delivered to any government agency or to any other person, without my prior written consent. My opinion is limited to the matters stated herein and no opinion is implied or may be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated herein.

 

Very truly yours,

 

WILLIAM M. AUL

 

 

 

 

 

EX-99 7 exa.htm EXHIBIT A

Exhibit A

PURCHASE ORDER FORM

(Subscription Agreement)

 

Premier Indemnity Holding Company

3001 North Rocky Point Drive, Suite 200

Tampa, Florida 33607

 

Dear Sirs:

 

The undersigned (the “Purchaser”) acknowledge that I have received and reviewed the Prospectus of Premier Indemnity Holding Company, dated__________ 2006.

 

Concurrent with execution of this Agreement, the Purchaser is purchasing _______________________________________________ (__________) shares of Common Stock of Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation (the “Company”) at a price of $1.00 per Share (the “Subscription Price”). Purchaser hereby confirms the subscription for and purchase of said number of shares and hereby agrees to pay herewith the Subscription Price for such Shares.

 

Purchaser further confirms that ________________________________________________solicited him/her/it to purchase the shares of Common Stock of the Company and no other person participated in such solicitation other than such person(s).

 

 

MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO: PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

 

 

Executed this _____ day of ___________________, 2006.

 

 

__________________________________

_______________________________________

 

 

__________________________________

Signature of Purchaser

 

__________________________________

Address of Purchaser

 

__________________________________

 

Printed Name of Purchaser

 

PLEASE ENSURE FUNDS ARE IN US DOLLARS

 

 

_____________

X $1.00

___________

=

US$

 

 

Number of Shares Purchased

Total Subscription Price

 

 

Form of Payment:

Cash:_______

Check #: _________________Other: ______________________

 

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

 

By: ________________________________________ Title: ______________________________________

 

 

 

 

EX-10 8 ex102a.htm EXHIBIT 10.2A

10.2A

AMENDMENT NUMBER 1

TO

CONSULTING SERVICES AGREEMENT

 

THIS AMENDMENT NUMBER 1 to the Consulting Services Agreement (the "Amendment") is effective as of the 15th day of May, 2006 by and between Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation (the "Company") and EMH Advisory Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Consultant”).

 

 

WHEREAS:

 

 

A.

The Company and the Consultant have previously signed a Consulting Services Agreement ; and

 

 

B.

The Company and the Consultant now wish to amend said Consulting Services Agreement.

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals and of the mutual covenants, agreements, representations and warranties set forth in this Amendment, THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

 

 

1.

Section 5.1 of the Consulting Services Agreement is hereby amended to read as follows:

 

5.1   Participation. Subject to the limitations and restrictions of Section 5.2 below, if at any time from and after the date hereof and for a period of two years thereafter, the Company proposes to file or files a Registration Statement (as defined below) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Securities Act with respect to any offering by the Company of securities of the same type as the Shares, for the account of the Company (other than a Registration Statement on Form S-8 or S-4 or any successor form thereto), then as promptly as practicable the Company shall, subject to the provisions of Section 5.2 below, give Consultant the opportunity to include in such Registration Statement up to, but not in excess of, 2,500,000 of the Shares (the “Registrable Shares”) received by the Consultant pursuant to this Agreement. Pursuant to timely notice by the Company off its intent to file a Registration Statement, the Consultant shall notify the Company in writing of its request to have all or a portion of its Registrable Shares included in such Registration Statement (a “Piggyback Registration”). The Consultant electing to participate via such Piggyback Registration shall do so pursuant to the terms of such proposed Registration Statement and shall execute such usual and customary custody agreements, powers

 

1

 


 

of attorney, underwriting agreements or other documents as are reasonably requested or required by the Company and any Underwriter (defined below) of such offering. The costs of including the Registrable Shares in such Piggyback Registration shall be borne by the Company. The Consultant shall be entitled to withdraw any or all of such Registrable Shares from the Piggyback Registration at any time prior to the effective date of thereof.

 

2. Section 9.0 “Miscellaneous” of the Consulting Services Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following:

 

9.6. Restrictions on Sale. All shares issued pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to the following restrictions:

 

(a)

Consultant shall not sell any shares until the Company shall have received at least 8.5 million dollars net capital from the offering, and

 

3. All other provisions of the Consulting Services Agreement not modified by the foregoing shall remain in full force and effect.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date set forth above.

 

THE COMPANY:

 

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

 

By:_____________________________ Name: Phillip R. Hardy

Title:

Chairman

 

 

THE CONSULTANT:

 

EMH ADVISORY SERVICES, INC.

 

By:____________________________

Name: Geraldine Tauscher

Title:

President

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

EX-23 9 ex231.htm EXHIBIT 23.1

Exhibit 23.1

 

May 24, 2006

 

Board of Directors

Premier Indemnity Holding Company

3001 N. Rocky Point Drive, Suite 200

Tampa, Florida 33607

 

We hereby confirm our consent to the inclusion in the Amendment No. 1- Form SB-2 Registration Statement for Premier Indemnity Holding Company our audited financial statements of Premier Indemnity Holding Company as of and for the period ended December 31, 2005, and our reviewed financial statements of Premier Indemnity Holding Company as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2006.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

HAMILTON MISFELDT & COMPANY, P.C.

 

 

 

 

 

EX-23 10 ex232.htm EXHIBIT 23.2

Exhibit 23.2

 

William M. Aul

Attorney at Law

7676 Hazard Center Drive, Suite 500

San Diego, California 92108

TEL: 619-497-2555

FAX: 619-542-0555

 

 

 

_________ __, 2006

 

The Board of Directors

Premier Indemnity Holding Company

3001 North Rocky Point Drive, Suite 200

Tampa, Florida 33607

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

I have acted as special legal counsel to Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation (the “Company”) in connection with the public offering of 17,500,000 shares of the Company s common stock, $0.001 par value which includes 15,000,000 shares to be sold by the Company and 2,500,000 shares to be sold by a selling shareholder (collectively, the “Shares”), in connection with a Registration Statement on Form SB-2, (File No. 333-132482), as amended, (“Registration Statement”) which was originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) on March 16, 2006. I am rendering this opinion to you pursuant at your request.

 

Capitalized terms used herein, unless otherwise defined, have the meanings attributed to them in the Registration Statement.

 

1.

Factual Examination.

 

1.1         Documents and Other Information. I have examined and relied on the following documents:

 

 

(a)

the Registration Statement;

 

 

(b)

the Effective and Final Prospectuses;

 

 

(c)

all Exhibits to the Registration Statement;

 

 


 

 

 

(d)         a Certificate of the Office of the Secretary of State for the State of Florida dated _________, 2006 stating that the Company is in good standing and has a legal existence in the State of Florida;

 

(e)         minutes and written consents of the Directors and Stockholders from April 22, 2005 to the present;

 

(f)         an Officer s Certificate executed by the President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company dated as of _________ 2006 (the “Officer’s Certificate”).

 

The documents described in paragraphs (a) through (f) are hereinafter referred to as the “Company Documents.”

 

I have also relied on confirmation pursuant to a telephone conversation with ______________ of the Commission on __________ 2006, that the Registration Statement has been declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as of __.m. on ________ 2006 and that the Company s Registration Statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 has been declared effective as of __.m. on ___, 2006.

 

1.2

Scope of Inquiry; Certain Assumptions.

 

(a)         In preparing this opinion, I have examined only those documents indicated above. Whenever the phrase “to my knowledge” appears in the opinions set forth below, it means that, in the course of my investigation described above, no facts have come to my attention in connection with the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement and Prospectus indicating to the contrary.

 

(b)         With your permission, I have assumed (i) the genuineness of all signatures (with the exception of the Company with respect to the Registration Statement) the authenticity of all documents submitted to me as originals, the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to me as drafts or copies, and the authenticity of all such originals; (ii) that each person who is executing or has executed the Registration Statement and Company Documents provided to me are complete and correct copies which contain the entire agreement of the parties thereto necessary for me to render the opinions contemplated herein, and that there are no other documents nor any oral agreements or other circumstances that will or do in any way alter or vary the provisions of the Company Documents.

 

(c)         With your permission I have also assumed (i) that you are duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of your incorporation; (ii) that you are fully authorized and qualified under your charter and bylaws and under federal law and any applicable laws and regulations of the jurisdiction of your incorporation to transact business generally;               

 

(d)         I specifically advise you that, with your consent, I have not conducted a litigation or docket search in respect to any pending items of litigation, but have

 


 

confirmed through an inquiry of the attorneys in this firm performing legal services for the Company that I do not represent the Company in any matter of the type described in the opinion given in paragraph 2.6 herein, other than as set forth in the Registration Statement.

 

2.            Opinion. On the basis of the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications and assumptions set forth herein, I am of the opinion that, as of the date hereof:

 

2.1         The Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Florida, with full corporate power to own or lease its properties and conduct its business as described in the Final Prospectus, and, to our knowledge, is qualified as a foreign corporation to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in the United States in which the character of the business conducted by it or the location of the properties owned or leased by it makes such qualification necessary.

 

2.2         The authorized, and to our knowledge, issued and outstanding Common Stock of the Company as of ________ 2006 is as set forth under the caption “Capitalization” in the Final Prospectus, and the Common Stock conforms to the description thereof contained under the caption “Description of Securities” in the Final Prospectus. The Shares, upon issuance and delivery and payment therefor in the manner described herein, will be, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. There are no preemptive or other rights to subscribe for or the purchase, or any restriction upon the voting or transfer of, any shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Company s Articles of Incorporation, as amended or Bylaws, or, to my knowledge, any agreement or other instruments to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; and, to our knowledge, neither the filing of the Registration Statement nor the offering or sale of the Shares as contemplated by the Registration Statement gives rise to any rights, other than those which have been waived or satisfied, or relating to the registration of any shares of Common Stock except as to those listed in the Registration Statement under the caption “Selling Stockholder.”

 

2.3         All corporate action on the part of the Company and its directors necessary for the authorization and issuance of the Shares has been taken.

 

2.4         The Registration Statement and all post-effective amendments filed as of the date hereof have become effective under the Securities Act and, to my knowledge, (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and (ii) no proceedings for that purpose have been (a) instituted or (b) are pending before or (c) are contemplated by, the Commission and any and all filings required by the Rules and Regulations have been made. The Registration Statement and the Effective Prospectus and the Final Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto as of their respective effective dates comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (provided, however, that I express no opinion on the financial statements, schedules, or other financial or statistical data).

 

 


 

 

2.5         All descriptions in the Effective Prospectus and the Final Prospectus of contracts and other documents, and United States statutes, regulations, legal or governmental proceedings are accurate and fairly present the information required to be shown; and, to our knowledge, there are no contracts or documents of a character required to be summarized or described therein or to be filed as exhibits thereto which are not so summarized, described or filed, nor, to our knowledge, is there any pending or threatened litigation or any United States governmental proceeding, statute or regulation required to be described in the Effective Prospectus which is not so described.

 

2.6         To my knowledge, the Company is not in violation of any material rule, regulation, or order issued by the Florida Department of Insurance Regulation with its current business operations.

 

Although I have not independently verified, am not passing upon and do not assume any responsibility for, the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement, on the basis of my participation and conferences with, among others, directors, officers and other representatives of the Company at which the contents of the Registration Statement and related matters were discussed, no facts have come to my attention that have caused me to believe that the Registration Statement (except for any financial statements and notes thereto and the schedules and other financial and statistical data contained therein, as to which I express no opinion) contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in the light of circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

3.            Qualifications and Assumptions. In addition to the matters set forth in Section 1.2 above, my opinion above is subject to and limited by the effect of the following qualifications, limitations and assumptions:

 

3.1         Bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer, marshalling and other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and relating to equitable principles of general application, including but not limited to those matters set forth specifically herein.

 

This opinion relates only to matters as of the date hereof, and I express no opinion with respect to any matter occurring after the date hereof.

 

The opinions herein are limited to the laws of the State of California, the corporate laws of the State of Florida and the federal laws of the United States, each as in effect on the date hereof. I express no opinion with respect to laws becoming effective after the date hereof.

 

This opinion is provided at your request and solely for use by you. This opinion may not be relied upon by any other person or for any other purpose, nor may it be quoted from or referred to, filed with or delivered to any government agency or to any other person,

 


 

without my prior written consent. My opinion is limited to the matters stated herein and no opinion is implied or may be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated herein.

 

Very truly yours,

 

WILLIAM M. AUL

 

 

 

 

 

 

EX-10 11 ex1010.htm EXHIBIT 10.10

 

EXHIBIT 10.10

THIS PROMISSORY NOTE IS A RESTRICTED SECURITY AND HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF A REGISTRATION STATEMENT COVERING SAID PROMISSORY NOTE OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

 

 

UNSECURED PROMISSORY NOTE

 

 

April 11, 2006

 

 

Page 1 of 3

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation (hereinafter called "Maker"), promises to pay to the order of Greg Barrett with principal address at 106 Terrace HL, Bigfork, Montana 59911 (together with all subsequent holders of this Note, hereinafter called "Payee"), or at such other place as Payee may from time to time designate in writing, the principal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000), together with interest thereon calculated on a daily basis (based on 365/366-day years) from the date hereof on the principal balance from time to time outstanding (the "Principal Amount") as hereinafter provided, principal, interest and all other sums payable hereunder to be paid in lawful money of the United States of America as follows:

 

A.         Interest shall accrue at all times hereunder at the rate of six percent (6.0%) per annum (non-compounded) commencing upon the execution of this Note, and shall be payable on April 11, 2008 (the "Maturity Date").

 

B.         If not earlier due and payable, the unpaid principal balance, all accrued and unpaid interest and all other amounts payable hereunder shall be due and payable in full on the Maturity Date.

 

Maker agrees to an effective rate of interest that is the rate stated above plus any additional rate of interest resulting from any other charges in the nature of interest paid or to be paid by or on behalf of Maker, or any benefit received or to be received by Payee, in connection with this Note.

 

If any payment required under this Note is not paid within forty-five (45) days after the date such payment is due, then, at the option of Payee, Maker shall pay a "late charge" equal to two percent (2%) of the amount of that payment to compensate Payee for administrative expenses and other costs of delinquent payments.

 

All payments on this Note shall be applied in such manner as Payee elects, and may be applied first to the payment of any costs, penalties, late charges, fees or other charges incurred in connection with the indebtedness evidenced hereby, next to the payment of accrued interest and then to the reduction of the principal balance.

 

Time is of the essence of this Note. At the option of Payee, the entire unpaid principal balance, all accrued and unpaid interest and all other amounts payable hereunder shall become immediately due and payable without notice upon the failure to pay any sum due and owing

 

1

 


 

hereunder as provided herein or upon the occurrence of any Event of Default in any of the Loan Documents. The occurrence of the following event shall constitute and is hereby defined to be an "Event of Default": Any failure to pay any principal or interest or any other amount due in connection with this Note when the same shall become due and payable.

 

After maturity, including maturity upon acceleration, the unpaid principal balance, all accrued and unpaid interest and all other amounts payable hereunder shall bear interest from the date of maturity until paid at the rate that is three percent (3%) above the rate that would otherwise be payable under the terms hereof. Maker shall pay all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, incurred in the collection or enforcement of all or any part of this Note. In the event of any court proceedings, court costs and attorneys' fees shall be set by the court and not by jury and shall be included in any judgment obtained by Payee.

 

Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under this Note, Payee may proceed against any collateral securing this Note or proceed against the undersigned in such order and manner as Payee, in its sole discretion, shall determine, provided that under no circumstance shall Payee be obligated to proceed against any collateral or against the undersigned for collection of any sums due hereunder.

 

Failure of Payee to exercise any option hereunder shall not constitute a waiver of the right to exercise the same in the event of any subsequent default or in the event of the continuance of any existing default after demand for strict performance hereof.

 

Maker, sureties, guarantors and endorsers hereof: (a) agree to be jointly and severally bound, (b) severally waive demand, diligence, presentment for payment, protest and demand, and notice of extension, dishonor, protest, demand and nonpayment of this Note, (c) consent that Payee may extend the time of payment or otherwise modify the terms of payment of any part or the whole of the debt evidenced by this Note, at the request of any other person primarily liable hereon, and such consent shall not alter nor diminish the liability of any person, and (d) agree that Payee may set off at any time any sums or property owed to any of them by Payee.

 

No provision of this Note is intended to or shall require or permit Payee, directly or indirectly, to take, collect or receive in money, goods or in any other form, any interest (including amount deemed by law to be interest) in excess of the maximum rate of interest permitted by applicable law.

 

If any amount due from or paid by Maker shall be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be interest in excess of such maximum rate, Maker shall not be obligated to pay such excess and, if paid, such excess shall be applied against the unpaid principal balance of this Note, or if and to the extent that this Note has been paid in full, such excess shall be remitted to Maker.

 

This Note shall be binding upon Maker and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of Payee and its successors and assigns.

 

All notices required or permitted in connection with this Note shall be given at the place

 

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and address as separately provided by each party to this Note.

 

This Note shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the State of Florida. Payee acknowledges receipt of various disclosures provided by Maker, including, but not limited to, the “Risk Factors” set forth in Maker's Form SB-2 Registration Statement attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein. Payee acknowledges and agrees that he is an officer, director, or both of Maker and that he is sophisticated and experienced in making investments in small development-stage companies that have no record of operations or achieving profitability. Payee agrees that the purchase of this Note from the Company represents the purchase of a HIGH RISK security that may result in the total loss of his investment. Payee further agrees that he has sufficient income and net worth and he can afford the total loss of his investment.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, these presents are executed as of the date first written above.

 

MAKER:

 

 

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(a Florida corporation)

 

 

By:

/s/ Stephen L. Rohde  

 

Stephen L. Rohde

 

 

 

Title:

President

 

 

Agreement and Acknowledgment of Payee

 

I, the Payee of this Note, hereby acknowledge that I agree with the representations and statements that I have made in this Note and I fully understand the risks associated with the purchase of this Note, including, but not limited to, those Risk Factors set forth in the Company’s Form SB-2 Registration Statement. I am sophisticated and experienced in making investments of this type and I have sufficient income and net worth that I can afford the total loss of his investment.

 

Signature of Payee:

/s/Gregg Barrett  

 

Name of Payee:

Gregg Barrett

 

Address of Payee:

 

106 Terrace HL

 

Bigfork, Montana 59911

 

 

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EXHIBIT 10.11

THIS PROMISSORY NOTE IS A RESTRICTED SECURITY AND HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF A REGISTRATION STATEMENT COVERING SAID PROMISSORY NOTE OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

 

 

UNSECURED PROMISSORY NOTE

 

 

April 11, 2006

 

 

Page 1 of 3

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation (hereinafter called "Maker"), promises to pay to the order of Phillip R. Hardy with principal address at 6075 Grelot Road, #67, Mobile, Alabama 36609 (together with all subsequent holders of this Note, hereinafter called "Payee"), or at such other place as Payee may from time to time designate in writing, the principal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000), together with interest thereon calculated on a daily basis (based on 365/366-day years) from the date hereof on the principal balance from time to time outstanding (the "Principal Amount") as hereinafter provided, principal, interest and all other sums payable hereunder to be paid in lawful money of the United States of America as follows:

 

A.         Interest shall accrue at all times hereunder at the rate of six percent (6.0%) per annum (non-compounded) commencing upon the execution of this Note, and shall be payable on April 11, 2008 (the "Maturity Date").

 

B.         If not earlier due and payable, the unpaid principal balance, all accrued and unpaid interest and all other amounts payable hereunder shall be due and payable in full on the Maturity Date.

 

Maker agrees to an effective rate of interest that is the rate stated above plus any additional rate of interest resulting from any other charges in the nature of interest paid or to be paid by or on behalf of Maker, or any benefit received or to be received by Payee, in connection with this Note.

 

If any payment required under this Note is not paid within forty-five (45) days after the date such payment is due, then, at the option of Payee, Maker shall pay a "late charge" equal to two percent (2%) of the amount of that payment to compensate Payee for administrative expenses and other costs of delinquent payments.

 

All payments on this Note shall be applied in such manner as Payee elects, and may be applied first to the payment of any costs, penalties, late charges, fees or other charges incurred in connection with the indebtedness evidenced hereby, next to the payment of accrued interest and then to the reduction of the principal balance.

 

Time is of the essence of this Note. At the option of Payee, the entire unpaid principal balance, all accrued and unpaid interest and all other amounts payable hereunder shall become immediately due and payable without notice upon the failure to pay any sum due and owing

 

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hereunder as provided herein or upon the occurrence of any Event of Default in any of the Loan Documents. The occurrence of the following event shall constitute and is hereby defined to be an "Event of Default": Any failure to pay any principal or interest or any other amount due in connection with this Note when the same shall become due and payable.

 

After maturity, including maturity upon acceleration, the unpaid principal balance, all accrued and unpaid interest and all other amounts payable hereunder shall bear interest from the date of maturity until paid at the rate that is three percent (3%) above the rate that would otherwise be payable under the terms hereof. Maker shall pay all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, incurred in the collection or enforcement of all or any part of this Note. In the event of any court proceedings, court costs and attorneys' fees shall be set by the court and not by jury and shall be included in any judgment obtained by Payee.

 

Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under this Note, Payee may proceed against any collateral securing this Note or proceed against the undersigned in such order and manner as Payee, in its sole discretion, shall determine, provided that under no circumstance shall Payee be obligated to proceed against any collateral or against the undersigned for collection of any sums due hereunder.

 

Failure of Payee to exercise any option hereunder shall not constitute a waiver of the right to exercise the same in the event of any subsequent default or in the event of the continuance of any existing default after demand for strict performance hereof.

 

Maker, sureties, guarantors and endorsers hereof: (a) agree to be jointly and severally bound, (b) severally waive demand, diligence, presentment for payment, protest and demand, and notice of extension, dishonor, protest, demand and nonpayment of this Note, (c) consent that Payee may extend the time of payment or otherwise modify the terms of payment of any part or the whole of the debt evidenced by this Note, at the request of any other person primarily liable hereon, and such consent shall not alter nor diminish the liability of any person, and (d) agree that Payee may set off at any time any sums or property owed to any of them by Payee.

 

No provision of this Note is intended to or shall require or permit Payee, directly or indirectly, to take, collect or receive in money, goods or in any other form, any interest (including amount deemed by law to be interest) in excess of the maximum rate of interest permitted by applicable law.

 

If any amount due from or paid by Maker shall be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be interest in excess of such maximum rate, Maker shall not be obligated to pay such excess and, if paid, such excess shall be applied against the unpaid principal balance of this Note, or if and to the extent that this Note has been paid in full, such excess shall be remitted to Maker.

 

This Note shall be binding upon Maker and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of Payee and its successors and assigns.

 

All notices required or permitted in connection with this Note shall be given at the place

 

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and address as separately provided by each party to this Note.

 

This Note shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the State of Florida. Payee acknowledges receipt of various disclosures provided by Maker, including, but not limited to, the “Risk Factors” set forth in Maker's Form SB-2 Registration Statement attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein. Payee acknowledges and agrees that he is an officer, director, or both of Maker and that he is sophisticated and experienced in making investments in small development-stage companies that have no record of operations or achieving profitability. Payee agrees that the purchase of this Note from the Company represents the purchase of a HIGH RISK security that may result in the total loss of his investment. Payee further agrees that he has sufficient income and net worth and he can afford the total loss of his investment.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, these presents are executed as of the date first written above.

 

MAKER:

 

 

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(a Florida corporation)

 

 

By:

/s/ Stephen L. Rohde  

 

Stephen L. Rohde

 

 

 

Title:

President

 

 

Agreement and Acknowledgment of Payee

 

I, the Payee of this Note, hereby acknowledge that I agree with the representations and statements that I have made in this Note and I fully understand the risks associated with the purchase of this Note, including, but not limited to, those Risk Factors set forth in the Company’s Form SB-2 Registration Statement. I am sophisticated and experienced in making investments of this type and I have sufficient income and net worth that I can afford the total loss of his investment.

 

Signature of Payee:

/s/ Phillip R. Hardy

 

Name of Payee:

Phillip R. Hardy

 

Address of Payee:

 

6075 Grelot Road

 

Mobile, Alabama 36609

 

 

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EXHIBIT 10.12

THIS PROMISSORY NOTE IS A RESTRICTED SECURITY AND HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF A REGISTRATION STATEMENT COVERING SAID PROMISSORY NOTE OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

 

 

UNSECURED PROMISSORY NOTE

 

 

April 11, 2006

 

 

Page 1 of 3

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation (hereinafter called "Maker"), promises to pay to the order of George E. Barton with principal address at 300 Brandy Run Road, Mobile, Alabama 36608(together with all subsequent holders of this Note, hereinafter called "Payee"), or at such other place as Payee may from time to time designate in writing, the principal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000), together with interest thereon calculated on a daily basis (based on 365/366-day years) from the date hereof on the principal balance from time to time outstanding (the "Principal Amount") as hereinafter provided, principal, interest and all other sums payable hereunder to be paid in lawful money of the United States of America as follows:

 

A.         Interest shall accrue at all times hereunder at the rate of six percent (6.0%) per annum (non-compounded) commencing upon the execution of this Note, and shall be payable on April 11, 2008 (the "Maturity Date").

 

B.         If not earlier due and payable, the unpaid principal balance, all accrued and unpaid interest and all other amounts payable hereunder shall be due and payable in full on the Maturity Date.

 

Maker agrees to an effective rate of interest that is the rate stated above plus any additional rate of interest resulting from any other charges in the nature of interest paid or to be paid by or on behalf of Maker, or any benefit received or to be received by Payee, in connection with this Note.

 

If any payment required under this Note is not paid within forty-five (45) days after the date such payment is due, then, at the option of Payee, Maker shall pay a "late charge" equal to two percent (2%) of the amount of that payment to compensate Payee for administrative expenses and other costs of delinquent payments.

 

All payments on this Note shall be applied in such manner as Payee elects, and may be applied first to the payment of any costs, penalties, late charges, fees or other charges incurred in connection with the indebtedness evidenced hereby, next to the payment of accrued interest and then to the reduction of the principal balance.

 

Time is of the essence of this Note. At the option of Payee, the entire unpaid principal balance, all accrued and unpaid interest and all other amounts payable hereunder shall become immediately due and payable without notice upon the failure to pay any sum due and owing

 

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hereunder as provided herein or upon the occurrence of any Event of Default in any of the Loan Documents. The occurrence of the following event shall constitute and is hereby defined to be an "Event of Default": Any failure to pay any principal or interest or any other amount due in connection with this Note when the same shall become due and payable.

 

After maturity, including maturity upon acceleration, the unpaid principal balance, all accrued and unpaid interest and all other amounts payable hereunder shall bear interest from the date of maturity until paid at the rate that is three percent (3%) above the rate that would otherwise be payable under the terms hereof. Maker shall pay all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, incurred in the collection or enforcement of all or any part of this Note. In the event of any court proceedings, court costs and attorneys' fees shall be set by the court and not by jury and shall be included in any judgment obtained by Payee.

 

Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under this Note, Payee may proceed against any collateral securing this Note or proceed against the undersigned in such order and manner as Payee, in its sole discretion, shall determine, provided that under no circumstance shall Payee be obligated to proceed against any collateral or against the undersigned for collection of any sums due hereunder.

 

Failure of Payee to exercise any option hereunder shall not constitute a waiver of the right to exercise the same in the event of any subsequent default or in the event of the continuance of any existing default after demand for strict performance hereof.

 

Maker, sureties, guarantors and endorsers hereof: (a) agree to be jointly and severally bound, (b) severally waive demand, diligence, presentment for payment, protest and demand, and notice of extension, dishonor, protest, demand and nonpayment of this Note, (c) consent that Payee may extend the time of payment or otherwise modify the terms of payment of any part or the whole of the debt evidenced by this Note, at the request of any other person primarily liable hereon, and such consent shall not alter nor diminish the liability of any person, and (d) agree that Payee may set off at any time any sums or property owed to any of them by Payee.

 

No provision of this Note is intended to or shall require or permit Payee, directly or indirectly, to take, collect or receive in money, goods or in any other form, any interest (including amount deemed by law to be interest) in excess of the maximum rate of interest permitted by applicable law.

 

If any amount due from or paid by Maker shall be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be interest in excess of such maximum rate, Maker shall not be obligated to pay such excess and, if paid, such excess shall be applied against the unpaid principal balance of this Note, or if and to the extent that this Note has been paid in full, such excess shall be remitted to Maker.

 

This Note shall be binding upon Maker and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of Payee and its successors and assigns.

 

All notices required or permitted in connection with this Note shall be given at the place

 

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and address as separately provided by each party to this Note.

 

This Note shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the State of Florida. Payee acknowledges receipt of various disclosures provided by Maker, including, but not limited to, the “Risk Factors” set forth in Maker's Form SB-2 Registration Statement attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein. Payee acknowledges and agrees that he is an officer, director, or both of Maker and that he is sophisticated and experienced in making investments in small development-stage companies that have no record of operations or achieving profitability. Payee agrees that the purchase of this Note from the Company represents the purchase of a HIGH RISK security that may result in the total loss of his investment. Payee further agrees that he has sufficient income and net worth and he can afford the total loss of his investment.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, these presents are executed as of the date first written above.

 

MAKER:

 

 

PREMIER INDEMNITY HOLDING COMPANY

(a Florida corporation)

 

 

By:

/s/ Stephen L. Rohde  

 

Stephen L. Rohde

 

 

 

Title:

President

 

 

Agreement and Acknowledgment of Payee

 

I, the Payee of this Note, hereby acknowledge that I agree with the representations and statements that I have made in this Note and I fully understand the risks associated with the purchase of this Note, including, but not limited to, those Risk Factors set forth in the Company’s Form SB-2 Registration Statement. I am sophisticated and experienced in making investments of this type and I have sufficient income and net worth that I can afford the total loss of his investment.

 

Signature of Payee:

/s/ George E. Barton  

 

Name of Payee:

George E. Barton

 

Address of Payee:

 

300 Brandy Run Road

Mobile, Alabama 36608

 

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COVER 14 filename14.htm

William M. Aul

Attorney at Law

7676 Hazard Center Drive, Suite 500

San Diego, California 92108

TEL: 619-497-2555

FAX: 619-542-0555

 

May 30, 2006

 

Mr. Jeffrey P. Reidler, Esq.

Assistant Director

Division of Corporation Finance

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington,D.C. 20549

 

 

RE:

Premier Indemnity Holding Company

 

 

Amendment No. 1 - Form SB-2 Registration Statement

 

 

File No. 333-132482; Your Letter Received April 18, 2006

 

Dear Mr. Reidler:

 

On behalf of my client, Premier Indemnity Holding Company, a Florida corporation, allow me to express our appreciation for comment letter and the courtesies that you and the staff at the Division of Corporation Finance have extended to me in connection with the review and comments that you have provided both in your letter and in our telephone conversations.

 

A copy of Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Form SB-2 Registration Statement is attached to this letter. In this connection and in response to your comments in the letter and in our telephone conversations, allow me to provide you with the following responses as numbered to follow the numbers assigned to your comments. The page references noted as a “Response” are to the red-line copy.

 

General

 

1.

Please note that where we provide examples to illustrate what we man by our comments, they are examples and not exhaustive lists. If our comments are applicable to portions of the filing that we have not cited as examples, make the appropriate changes in accordance with our comments.

 

Response: Noted.

 

2.

In your response letter, please state our comment and then explain each change that has been made in response to a comment. In addition, you should also reference each page

 

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number in which disclosure has been revised in response to a comment so that we can easily place your revised disclosure in its proper context.

 

Response: Noted.

 

3.

Please file as promptly as possible all exhibits required by the Exhibit Table provided in Item 601(a) of Regulation S-K. We note, for example, that you have not filed the opinion or consent of your legal counsel nor your executed escrow agreement. Please note that we may have additional comments upon examination of any exhibits once they are filed.

 

Response: We have attached all exhibits.

 

4.

Please note that you should identify the escrow agent in the prospectus pre-effectively and you should file the executed escrow agreement in a pre-effective amendment.

 

Response: We have attached the Escrow Agreement.

 

5.

To the extent practicable, please complete all of the blank sections of your filing in your next amendment.

 

Response: All blank sections have been filled in, to the extent practicable.

 

6.

Please provide us proofs of any graphic, visual or photographic information you will provide in the printed prospectus prior to its use in the prospectus. Please note we may have comments regarding this material.

Response: By Federal Express delivery, we will provide you with a copy of the sole graphic image, the Company’s logo and the same shall accompany a paper copy of this response letter.

 

7.

Please clearly state your fiscal year end in the filing.

 

Response: The Company’s fiscal year end is stated as follows: (a) on page 4, in the last sentence under the heading “About Premier Indemnity Holding Company” and (b) in the last sentence in the fourth paragraph in the “Description of Business” section on page 18.

 

Prospectus Cover Page

 

8.

The cover page information including the footnotes is quite extensive and includes a significant amount of repetition. For example, most of the information in Footnotes 1 and 2 is duplicative of the information already provided on the cover page or elsewhere in the prospectus. Please eliminate these footnotes and any other duplicative information. The information you retain should be the information that is most material to investors. In that regard please refer to Item 501 of Regulation SB. To the extent you need to

 

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relocate information that is not included elsewhere in the prospectus you can relocate it to “The Offering” section in the summary or the “Plan of Distribution” section.

 

Response: We have revised footnotes 1, 2, and 3 and eliminated footnote 4. The sub-section entitled the “The Offering” (on page 4 and 5) within the section entitled “Summary Information” has been revised to properly reflect the Company’s plans and to address these matters in detail. In addition, in the “Plan of Distribution” section on page 40, the fifth paragraph has been added.

 

9.

Please revise the information about the secondary offering on the cover page to eliminate any suggestion that the officers who are selling the shares offered by the company are also engaged in sales efforts on behalf of the selling shareholders. For example, in the second sentence of the first paragraph you mention the sale of the selling shareholder’s shares in close proximity to a discussion of the sale of shares in the primary offering and in the table you included a column entitled “Proceeds to Selling Stockholder.” This may suggest to some readers that the secondary offering is a part of the officers’ and directors’ sales effort. You should briefly mention the selling shareholder offering in a separate paragraph on the cover page but then provide more information about it in the “Plan of Distribution” section.

 

Response: The coverage page of the prospectus has been revised so that the discussion regarding the selling shareholder now appears in the last five lines of the first paragraph.

 

10.

In addition to stating that the selling shareholder has agreed not to sell its shares until after the company sells the minimum number of shares, you should state at what price the selling shareholder will sell its shares once it commences doing so until a market for the shares develops. We note that after escrow is broken there is no guarantee that a market for the shares will develop.

 

Response: The last five lines of the first paragraph have been revised and the statement has been inserted.

 

11.

As we have asked you to eliminate the column “Proceeds to Selling Stockholder” from the table and provide the price at which the selling shareholder will offer the shares until a market develops, please eliminate Footnote 4 from the table.

 

Response: The column has been eliminated and the last sentence in the first paragraph has been inserted to address this matter.

 

12.

We note that you reserve the right to engage NASD member firms to sell the shares you are offering. You should file the form of Sellers agreement you intend to use as an exhibit to the registration statement, describe all the material terms thereof in the prospectus under “Plan of Distribution” and provide it to the NASD so that they can clear the underwriting compensation prior to effectiveness. Otherwise, if you decide to engage

 

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NASD member firms after effectiveness you will need to suspend your offering until you obtain such NASD approval.

Response: The Company has determined that it will sell the shares without the benefit of an underwriter. As a result, the statements regarding the use of an underwriter have been eliminated.

 

13.

We note you are relying on Rule 3a4-1 of the Securities Exchange act of 1934 for the offering of the company’s shares by officers and directors of the company. Please advise us supplementally as to the actual person who may offer these shares and identify them in the prospectus. Please also provide your supplemental analysis regarding the applicability of Rule 3a4-1 to this offering. We may have further comments.

 

Response: See Exhibit A attached to this Letter.

 

About Premier Indemnity Holding Company, page 4

 

14.

The third, fourth and fifth sentences of the second paragraph under this caption suggest that the registrant will undoubtedly engage in additional capital raising, enhance its portfolio of products, increase sales and spread operating costs over a larger revenue base in away that increases its profitability. As the registrant has not yet commenced operations, you should revise this disclosure to provide a more balanced view that includes substantial disclosure regarding the challenges you will face. Please revise similar disclosure, if any, as requested herein throughout the prospectus.

 

Response: The first six paragraphs in the sub-section entitled “About Premier Indemnity Holding Company” (on page 4) have been revised to address this concern.

 

The Offering, page 4

 

15.

Provide the information required by Item 505 of Regulation SB. The staff notes that the registrant currently has no operations or assets and there is no market for its shares. If the registrant proved the shares considering both the amount of proceeds they desired to raise and the amount of the company current shareholders desired to retain, please provide appropriate disclosure.

 

Response: Three paragraphs have been added to this sub-section to address this concern.

 

Use of Proceeds, page 4

 

16.

We note that officers and directors may participate in the offering. You should afford purchasers the opportunity to evaluate the extent to which the offering could be consummated and their funds used to purchase shares without a substantial amount of interest fro the general public. In that regard, please revise this section to identify the persons who may purchase shares, the maximum of shares they may purchase in order to

 

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enable the company to break escrow and what those persons intend to do with the shares they purchase. Indicate whether these persons will hold or resell the shares they purchase.

 

Response: The second paragraph under “Use of Proceeds” has been expanded to address this concern.

 

17.

Please provide a separate risk factor indicating the risks to purchasers as a result of substantial purchases by current shareholders in order to break escrow (i.e. without a wide distribution of shares or wide public participation).

 

Response: The risk factor presented on the bottom pf page 10 has been added to address this concern.

 

Subscription Information, page 5

 

18.

We note your reference to the Purchase Order Form provided in Appendix A but have not located the appendix. Please file this form as an exhibit to the registration statement. We may have further comments upon review of the exhibit.

 

 

Response: The Purchase Order Form has been added.

 

We Amended Our Articles of Incorporation to Allow Our Board to Issue One or More Series of Preferred Stock, page 7

 

19.

Please expand the risk factor heading to briefly refer to the potential negative effects for common shareholders if the company issued preferred stock and expand the text of the risk factor to provide more detailed information that explains how preferred stock may be issued with various types of voting, dividend and liquidation rights and how these scenarios would negatively affect common stockholders.

 

Response: The third Risk Factor shown on page 8 has been revised so that the last 11 lines have been added.

 

Note: Also, in accordance with my discussions with you, we have added an additional Risk Factor on the top of page 8 entitled, “Investors who purchase our shares will incur immediate and substantial dilution.”

 

Our Success Depends Significantly Upon Our Management and an Easily Copied Business Model, page 7

 

20.

The risk faced by shareholders does not appear to be clearly disclosed either in the heading or the text. Please revise both to identify the risk and the possible adverse consequences. If the risk factor relates to the registrant’s competitive position please provide appropriate disclosure and discuss the specific competitive situation for homeowners insurance in the state of Florida the company will face. Identify the major

 

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competitors and the areas in which the registrant would have to compete. If the risk factor relates to another risk, please rewrite the risk factor heading and the text to explain.

 

Response: The first Risk Factor that appears on page 9 has been revised to include a a specific description of the competitive situation (in summary form) and a listing of the major competitors. (Further, the competitive situation facing the Company has been further described in the “Competition” sub-section listed on pages 29 and 30.)

 

We Anticipate Relying on Others for Operations and Portfolio Management, page 8

 

21.

The heading of this risk factor indicates you will rely upon WaterStreet for portfolio management services in additional to operational services but he text indicates that WaterStreet’s services relate to operations. Please revise the heading, if appropriate. Furthermore, a risk factor follows which is entitled “We anticipate relying upon other for portfolio management expertise in managing our planned investments.” The text of this risk factor does not identify a portfolio manager and therefore suggests you have not identified or engaged one. Please revise all disclosure to eliminate any inconsistencies. If you have engaged a portfolio manager please provide appropriate disclosure herein and in the “Business’ section and file any material agreements as exhibits to the registration statement.

 

Response: The heading for this Risk Factor has been revised and the narrative in the Risk Factor has been narrowed to address only the risks relating to this topic.

 

Note: In accordance with my discussions with the staff, this Risk Factor also reflects the issues relating to WaterStreet and incorporates only the specific aspects of the Company’s dependence and reliance upon WatetrStreet.

 

22.

Please revise the prospectus where appropriate to disclose the history and track record of WaterStreet Company in providing the type of services which the registrant intends to purchase. Also disclose the specific resources WaterStreet will have available to enable it to provide the services the registrant will need. Also, indicate herein or in the summary how the registrant was introduced to WaterStreet, and disclose the extent of any past or present affiliations between the registrant’s officers and directors and WaterStreet.

 

Response: On pages 20 and 21, under the sub-section entitled “Outsourcing” we have added a narrative in response to this concvern.

 

We Anticipate Relying on Independent Insurance Brokers to Market and Sell Our Planned Insurance Products, page 8

 

23.

Please provide specific information indicating the extent to which the registrant either has or has not yet engaged independent insurance agents to sell its insurance products.

 

 

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Response: The caption and the narrative in the last Risk Factor has been revised to respond to this concern.

 

We Currently Do Not Have an Underwriter for This Offering and We Are Relying Upon this Offering to Raise Capital, page 8

 

24.

Aside from the risks to a company related to the ability to sell an offering without an underwriter, there are substantial risks to a purchaser who purchases shares in an offering without an underwriter. In this case, the purchaser doesn’t have the advantage of the underwriter’s due diligence. Please provide a separate risk factor following this one that outlines the underwriter’s due diligence obligation, its role in pricing the offering and confirming the disclosure included in the prospectus and the resulting risk to a purchaser of purchasing shares in a self-underwritten offering.

Response: This caption and the narrative of this Risk Factor (shown as the second last Risk Factor on page 10) has been revised to address this concern. My client also does not intend to engage an underwriter.

 

Use of Proceeds, page 10

 

25.

The amount of proceeds for “Working Capital” under the minimum proceeds scenario appears to be incorrect. Please revise.

 

 

Response: This has been revised. See page 13.

 

Dilution, pages 11-12

 

26.

Please expand this section to compare the relative ownership and relative capital contributions of the purchasers in this offering with the current shareholders of the company.

 

Response: A table has been inserted with a narrative on page 15 in response to this concern.

 

Plan of Operation, page 12

 

27.

Please provide the information required by Items 303(a)(1)(I) through (iv) of Regulation SB.

 

Response: The second through seventh paragraphs have been added to this sub-section in response to this concern. See page16.

 

Market for Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters, page 13

 

 

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28.

The first sentence of this section suggests that the registrant’s common stock will definitely trade on the OTCBB. However, whether a market will exist on the OTCBB will depend upon whether a market maker will apply to trade the common stock. Please revise the disclosure to eliminate the inference that the shares will definitely trade and disclose whether any member firm has applied to trade the registrant’s common stock.

 

Response: The first paragraph on 17 has been revised in response to this concern.

 

Independent Auditor’s Report

 

29.

We note that your independent accounting firm, Hamilton Misfeldt & Company, P.C., does not appear to be registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). Section 102 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires that an accounting firm be registered with the PCAOB to issue an audit report with respect to any issuer beginning after October 22, 2003. This provision applies to any issuer whose securities are registered under Section 12 of the Securities exchange act of 1934; that is required to file reports under Section 15(d) of that Act; or that files or has filed a registration statement that has not yet become effective under the Securities Act of 1933 and has not been withdrawn. Since your current independent accounting firm is not registered with the PCAOB, they will not be able to make any updates to the previously issued report dated February 15, 2006 as a result of substantive audit or review work that might be required in connection with this registration statement until such time they register with the PCAOB. Additionally, they will not be able to issue audit reports on subsequent annual period financial statements nor perform SAS 100 review procedures on any interim financial statements required to be included in Form 10-QSB. However, they may issue a consent to the use of the originally issued audit report dated February 15, 2006 since the report was issued prior to time you met the definition of an issuer.

 

Response: This concern has been addressed and we understand that the auditors have satisfied this concern in discussions held by them with the staff.

 

30.

Please advise your independent auditors’ to specify the city and state of issuance on their report, as required by Item 2-02(a)(3) of regulation S-X, and to revise their report accordingly.

 

Response: The first page of the Auditor’s Report (page F-1) has been revised and the information is given in the last line in the lower left hand corner.

 

Consolidated Financial Statements - General

 

31.

We note your disclosure on page 4 that you are a development-state company. In accordance with SFAS No. 7, paragraph 12, please revise your financial statements to clearly identify that they are those of a development-stage entity. Additionally, please ensure that you have provided all of the information required by paragraph 11 of SFAS No. 7; in particular, designate that your statements of operations, cash flows and

 

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shareholders’ deficit present cumulative data from inception and provide a statement of shareholders’ deficit in accordance with paragraph 11 d. In addition please revise the independent auditors’ report to identify the registrant as a development-stage company.

 

Response: The financial statements and the identifications have been revised to properly respond to this concern.

 

Notes to Financial Statements

Note1: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, page F-6

 

32.

Based on your disclosures in the section entitled “Description of Business,” beginning on page 14, we surmise that you expect to derive the majority of your revenue form two principal sources: premiums from policies written and investment income from your investment portfolio. It appears that management should consider whether accounting policies, such as revenue recognition on insurance premiums; estimation of loss reserves; deferral of policy acquisition costs; and other-than-temporary losses on investments; should be disclosed ;in notes to the financial statements.

 

 

Response: Note 1 has been revised to respond to this concern.

 

33.

Please disclose your accounting policy with respect to income taxes, citing the applicable authoritative literature; for example, whether your policy complies with the provisions of SFAS No. 109.

 

Response: The accounting policy disclosure has been revised and the notes to the financial statements properly disclose it in response to this concern.

 

34.

Please disclose your accounting policy with respect to share-based payments, referring to SFAS No. 123®, EITF No. 96-18 and other applicable authoritative literature.

 

Response: The accounting policy disclosure has been revised and the notes to the financial statements properly disclose it in response to this concern.

 

Note 2: Common Stock, page F-6

 

35.

Please revise your disclosure to include information regarding the related-party nature of your material debt transactions. Refer to paragraph 2 of SFAS No. 57.

 

Response: The accounting policy disclosure has been revised and the notes to the financial statements properly disclose it in response to this concern.

 

Note 3: Common Stock, page F-6

 

36.

You disclose on page 30 that, on February 2, 2006, you issued approximately 40.4 million of your common shares, valued at $0.0024/share, in exchange for various consulting and

 

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other services rendered by related parties. Please provide us with additional information and revise your disclosure as follows:

 

         Provide us with additional information regarding your valuation of the share price in the February 2, 2006 transactions. Refer to paragraph 7 of SFAS No. 123® and to EITF No. 96-18 in considering your valuation methodology.

 

         for each transaction disclosed on page 30, specify the dates(s) on which the parties rendered the services and tell us the period in which you recorded the related expense in the financial statements, as well as your basis for recording each amount in the applicable period. Refer to paragraph 5 of SFAS no. 123®.

 

Response: The accounting policy disclosure has been revised and the notes to the financial statements properly disclose it in response to this concern.

 

37.

Additionally, please revise the notes to your financial statements to disclose the February 2, 2006 transactions, as it appears they occurred prior to the issuance of the financial statements; that is, the material nature and timing of the transactions appear to indicate a subsequent event. In revising your disclosure, please refer to paragraph 2 of SFAS No. 57.

 

Response: The accounting policy disclosure has been revised and the notes to the financial statements properly disclose it in response to this concern.

 

Signatures

 

38.

Please amend your signature page to indicate who is signing the registration statement in the capacity of Chief Executive Officer. Pleas refer to the instructions for signatures in the Form SB-2.

 

Response: The signature page has been revised to respond to this concern.

 

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On behalf of the Company, I want to thank you again for your kind assistance and the courtesies that you and the legal and accounting staff members have extended to me and Mr. Richard Reisig, C.P.A., of Hamilton Misfeldt & Company, P.C.

 

I look forward to further discussions with you and appreciate your kind assistance.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

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William M. Aul

 

WMA: mds

cc: file

May 30, 2006

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

In accordance with your request, my client believes that all of its officers and directors shall be deemed associated persons of an issuer and will not be deemed to be brokers pursuant to Rule 3a4-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “1934 Act”).

 

None of the officers or directors of the Company are or have been a person who meets the definition of an “Associated Person of a broker or dealer” (as defined under Rule 3a4-1(c)(2) of the 1934 Act). That is none of the officers and none of the directors of the Company are or have been, at any time in the past 12 months, a partner, officer, director, or branch manager of such broker or dealer (or any person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions), any person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with such broker or dealer, or any employee of such broker or dealer.

 

Further, in their individual capacity as an officer and/or director, each of these persons fully satisfies the definition and the requirements of Rule 3a4-1(c)(1) of the 1934 Act in that each of them is an “Associated Person of an Issuer.”

 

As a result, the officers and directors of Premier Indemnity Holding Company fully meet the requirements of Rule 3a4-1 in connection with the planned offering and sale of the Company’s Common Stock, as contemplated by the Amendment No. 1 to Form SB-2 Registration Statement.

 

 

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