Commitments and Contingencies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2024

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Note 17. Commitments and Contingencies

Purchase Commitments

As of December 31, 2024, we had non-cancelable purchase commitments over the next five years as follows:


2025	$	10,373
2026	1,537
2027	1,226
2028	1,020
2029	—
	$	14,156

Litigation

From time to time we are or may become subject to various legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, including proceedings initiated by users, other entities, or regulatory bodies. Estimated liabilities are recorded when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. In many instances, we are unable to determine whether a loss is probable or to reasonably estimate the amount of such a loss and, therefore, the potential future losses arising from a matter may differ from the amount of estimated liabilities we have recorded in the financial statements covering these matters. We review our estimates periodically and make adjustments to reflect negotiations, estimated settlements, rulings, advice of legal counsel, and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter.

Cases under Telephone Consumer Protection Act

Porch and/or an acquired entity, GoSmith.com, are party to a legal proceeding alleging violations of the automated calling and/or internal and National Do Not Call restrictions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 and a related Washington state law claim. The proceedings were commenced as thirteen separate mass tort actions brought by a single plaintiffs’ law firm in December 2019 and April/May 2020 in federal district courts throughout the United States. One of the actions was dismissed with prejudice and appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. While the appeal was pending, the remaining cases were consolidated in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, where Porch resides. On October 12, 2022, in a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed. Following remand, that case was also consolidated with the Western District of Washington action. Plaintiffs then filed a motion for leave to file a second amended complaint, which was granted in part and denied in part. The Second Amended Complaint was filed in July 2023. In September 2023, Defendants filed a Motion to Strike the Second Amended Complaint; this motion was denied. Defendants then filed a Motion to Dismiss the Second Amended Complaint on February 15, 2024; that motion was granted in part on November 13, 2024. In its Order, the Court dismissed Plaintiff’s automated calling claims

and transferred claims against two individual defendants (former officers of GoSmith) to Northern District of California to proceed separately. Plaintiffs were granted leave to amend their remaining claims.

In the Western District of Washington action, Plaintiffs filed a Third Amended Complaint on December 2, 2024, and subsequently a Fourth Amended Complaint, to correct errors in the prior amendment, on December 23, 2024. As a result of the dismissal and amendments, the total number of Plaintiffs remaining in the Western District of Washington action is 956. Defendants filed their Answer and Affirmative Defendants to the Fourth Amended Complaint on January 24, 2025. The parties’ filed a required Joint Status Report and Discovery Plan on December 18, 2024. Based thereon, the Court issued a Scheduling Order on February 3, 2025, opening discovery, which was previously stayed pending Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss and setting deadlines for the case.

The Northern District of California action is proceeding against two individual Defendants. Upon transfer, all but six of the Plaintiffs dismissed their claims in the Northern District of California action. An initial case management conference is set for April 24, 2025. The parties’ joint case management statement is due on April 17, 2025.

Plaintiffs in both cases seek actual, statutory, and/or treble damages, injunctive relief, and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs from the respective Defendants. We are unable to state whether the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome of these disputes is probable or remote. We are also unable to provide an estimate of the range or amount of potential loss (if the outcome should be unfavorable). Management intends to contest these cases vigorously.

Putative Wage and Hours Class Action Proceeding.

Former employees of Welcome Wagon filed a complaint in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York asserting putative class action claims for failure to pay minimum wages, overtime compensation, and other damages in violation of federal and New York Law. The case was filed on November 4, 2024. Welcome Wagon filed a motion to dismiss on January 6, 2025. The plaintiff seeks to represent all current and former similarly situated community marketing employees. This action is at an early stage in the litigation process and Porch is unable to determine the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome, although it is reasonably possible that the outcome may be unfavorable. Porch is unable to provide an estimate of the range or amount of potential loss (if the outcome should be unfavorable). Porch intends to contest this case vigorously.

Other

In addition, in the ordinary course of business, we and our subsidiaries are (or may become) parties to litigation involving property, personal injury, contract, intellectual property and other claims, stockholder derivative actions, class action lawsuits and other matters. The amounts that may be recovered in such matters may be subject to insurance coverage. Although the results of legal proceedings and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, neither we nor any of our subsidiaries are currently a party to any legal proceedings the outcome of which, we believe, if determined adversely to us, would individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Regulatory Requirements and Restrictions

HOA is subject to the laws and regulations of the State of Texas and the regulations of any other states in which HOA conducts business. State regulations cover all aspects of HOA’s business and are generally designed to protect the interests of insurance policyholders, as opposed to the interests of stockholders. The Texas Insurance Code requires all property and casualty insurers to have a minimum of $2.5 million in capital stock and $2.5 million in surplus. HOA has capital and surplus in excess of this requirement.

As of December 31, 2024, HOA’s total statutory surplus is $105.3 million (capital stock of $3.0 million and surplus of $102.3 million). As of December 31, 2023, HOA’s total statutory surplus was $51.7 million (capital stock of $3.0 million and surplus of $48.7 million).

As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, HOA had restricted cash and investments totaling $3.9 million and $3.3 million, respectively, pledged to the Department of Insurance in certain states as a condition of its Certificate of Authority for the purpose of meeting obligations to policyholders and creditors. See Note 1, Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, for additional disclosures.

The Texas Insurance Code limits dividends from insurance companies to their stockholders to net income accumulated in the Company’s surplus account, or “earned surplus.” The maximum dividend that may be paid without approval of the Insurance Commissioner is limited to the greater of 10% of the statutory surplus at the end of the preceding calendar year or the statutory net income of the preceding calendar year. No dividends were paid by HOA in 2024 and 2023. In 2025, HOA is permitted to pay up to $12.9 million without prior approval from the Texas Department of Insurance (“TDI”).

HOA prepares its statutory-based financial statements in conformity with accounting practices prescribed or permitted by the Texas Department of Insurance. Prescribed statutory accounting practices primarily include those published as statements of Statutory Accounting Principles by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, as well as state laws, regulations and general administrative rules. Permitted statutory accounting practices encompass all accounting practice not so prescribed. As of December 31, 2024, there were no material permitted statutory accounting practices utilized by HOA.