-----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, RvWdjS38YTYdT4Y2PK2FeVWGPtFiu+oIc5+/Zf/C1eeYVBp94e9Zw9jqiUQ0omwd JwgeZS65ueJF0ZDunOaFfw== 0000000000-06-003014.txt : 20060926 0000000000-06-003014.hdr.sgml : 20060926 20060119153108 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000000000-06-003014 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: UPLOAD PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20060119 FILED FOR: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AMCOMP INC /FL CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001009667 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331] IRS NUMBER: 650636842 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: UPLOAD BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 701 U S HIGHWAY ONE STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: NORTH PALM BEACH STATE: FL ZIP: 33408 BUSINESS PHONE: 5618407171 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 701 US HIGHWAY ONE STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: NORTH PALM BEACH STATE: FL ZIP: 33408 PUBLIC REFERENCE ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001047469-05-022804 LETTER 1 filename1.txt Mail Stop 6010 January 19, 2006 Mr. Fred R. Lowe, President Amcomp Incorporated 701 U.S. Highway One North Palm Beach, Florida 33408 Re: Amcomp Incorporated Supplemental Response received on January 18, 2006 File No. 333-128272 Dear Mr. Lowe: We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments on your filing. Where indicated, we think you should revise your document in response to these comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to why our comment is inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with supplemental information so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may or may not raise additional comments. Please understand that the purpose of our review process is to assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing. We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome any questions you may have about our comments or on any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. General 1. We note your response to comment 3. We continue to believe a discussion of your combined ratio is information that is important to investors. We note that you have disclosed the combined ratio in the first full paragraph on page 2. However, you have not explained what the combined ratio represents and how investors should use this information. Please revise to briefly explain the term and what a combined ratio of 92.7% means for your company. This should be explained in greater detail in the discussion of your results from operations. 2. We note your response to comment 5. Although you have deleted the disclosure that appeared on page 2, the loss ratios "accident net loss ratio" that appear on page 49 differ from the ratios that appear on page 47. Therefore, our comment is reissued. Please clarify for us and in the document exactly how this ratio compares to the others presented and explain why it is appropriate. Consider the applicability of any non-GAAP guidance as it relates to presenting this apparent alternative to your GAAP loss ratio. 3. We note your response to comment 12. However, pages 5, 15 and 19 were not provided with the faxed changed pages. We will not be in a position to clear this comment until we see these revised pages. 4. We have had the opportunity to review the documentation submitted supporting statements included in your registration statement and have the following questions: * Your registration statement states that you were among the top 15 carriers in terms of market share in 7 of your 11 states based on direct premiums written. We have reviewed attachment B and it is unclear how this information supports the statement included in your registration statement. Please provide documentation supporting your position among the top 15 for each of the 11 states. If the documentation consists of a calculation that you have prepared, please provide documentation for the numbers used in your calculation. * In support of your statement that the reserves for US workers` compensation insurers have been deficient in 6 of the last 10 years, you submitted Attachment D. The statement in your registration statement is attributed to A.M. Best, yet the support that you submitted appears to have been prepared by Towers Perrin Tillinghast. Please advise or revise. Additionally, if this information was prepared by Towers Perrin Tillinghast on your behalf, please disclose this information and file their consent. * It appears that the first two spreadsheets comprising Attachment C may have been prepared by you using data culled from A.M. Best reports. If this is the case, please provide support for the numbers used in these spreadsheets. 5. We note your response to comment 4. Although you have deleted the statements comparing your growth rates to the growth rates to the industry, this information is also presented in the Business section. Therefore, the comment is reissued, please revise the Business section to address the long-tail nature of your business and discuss how the loss ratios and growth rates are likely to change over time. Summary 6. We note your response to comment 6. However, our comment is reissued. Please revise to specifically state that competitors with more surplus than you will have the potential to expand in your markets more quickly. * * * As appropriate, please amend your registration statement in response to these comments. You may wish to provide us with marked copies of the amendment to expedite our review. Please furnish a cover letter with your amendment that keys your responses to our comments and provides any requested supplemental information. Detailed cover letters greatly facilitate our review. We may have additional comments after reviewing your amendment and responses to our comments. You may contact James Peklenk at 202-551-3661 or James Atkinson at 202-942-2826 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Mary Fraser at 202-551-3609 or me at 202-551-3610 with any other questions. Regards, Jeffrey P. Riedler Assistant Director Cc: David J. Adler, Esq. Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP Park Avenue Tower 65 East 55th St. New York, N.Y. 10022 ?? ?? ?? ?? Fred R. Lowe, President Amcomp Incorporated December 12, 2005 Page 4 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----