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James River Group Holdings, Ltd.

For the period ended Sep 30, 2025. Filed Nov 4, 2025.

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Sep 30, 2025 · Filed Nov 4, 2025

JRVR$3.22-14.7%Stored close · as of Nov 10, 2026

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

In preparing the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, we are required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses for the reporting period. Actual results could differ significantly from those estimates.

The most critical accounting policies involve significant estimates and include those used in determining the reserve for losses and loss adjustment expenses and investment valuation and impairment. For a detailed discussion of each of these policies, refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. There have been no significant changes to any of these policies during the current year.

Recent Strategic Actions

Enstar Strategic Relationship

The Company commenced a multi-pronged strategic relationship with Enstar Group Limited (“Enstar”). As part of this, on November 11, 2024, Enstar, through its subsidiary Cavello Bay Reinsurance Limited (“Cavello Bay”), entered into (i) a subscription agreement to purchase $12.5 million of the Company’s common shares at a share price of $6.40, which shares are in addition to 637,640 shares Enstar previously purchased in the open market, and (ii) an adverse development cover agreement with James River (the “E&S Top Up ADC”). Pursuant to the E&S Top Up ADC, in exchange for a premium of $52.8 million (less an amount equal to the federal excise tax payable on the premium), Cavello Bay reinsures, effective January 1, 2024, 100% of the losses associated with James River’s Excess and Surplus Lines segment casualty portfolio losses attaching to premium earned during 2010-2023 (both years inclusive). This agreement excludes losses related to commercial auto policies issued to a former large insured or its affiliates. It is subject to a retention by James River of $1,183.7 million (the limit of the E&S ADC) and up to an aggregate limit of $75.0 million. Enstar’s purchase of common shares and the E&S Top Up ADC closed on December 23, 2024. The Company recognized a $52.8 million reduction in pre-tax income in connection with the E&S Top Up ADC upon closing. In the three months ended September 30, 2025, the Company recognized additional adverse development on the subject business of the E&S ADC that exhausted the remaining limit of the E&S ADC and resulted in $22.5 million of losses ceded to the E&S Top Up ADC. As a result, the Company has $52.5 million of aggregate limit remaining on the E&S Top Up ADC at September 30, 2025.

Series A Preferred Share Amendment

On November 11, 2024, the Company amended the Certificate of Designations setting forth the terms of the Series A Preferred Shares held by GPC Partners to, among other things, (i) convert $37.5 million of the outstanding Series A Preferred Shares to common stock at a per share price of $6.40 (the “Minimum Price”), (ii) increase the voluntary conversion price from 127.5% to 130% of the Minimum Price, (iii) increase the mandatory conversion price from 130% to 200% of the voluntary conversion price, (iv) delay the first date on which the dividend rate re-sets from March 1, 2027 to October 1, 2029, (v) cap the dividend rate at 8%, (vi) eliminate the adverse development anti-dilution adjustment provision, and (vii) limit transfers of the Series A Preferred Shares without the Company’s consent if, after the transfer, the transferee would hold 9.9% or more of the voting equity of the Company or, in the event of an A.M. Best downgrade of James River Insurance Company below A- (Excellent), 19.9% of the voting equity.

Domestication of JRG Holdings

As previously announced, we intend to change our jurisdiction of incorporation from Bermuda to Delaware, and we refer to this change as the “Domestication”. The Domestication does not require shareholder approval. On the effective date of the Domestication, expected to be on or around November 7, 2025, our common shares issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Domestication will automatically convert by operation of law into an equivalent number of shares of common stock of James River Group Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“James River Delaware”). The Domestication is expected to lower the Company’s effective tax rate, as holding company expenses and interest expense (previously incurred in Bermuda and ineligible for U.S. tax deduction) will receive a U.S. tax deduction in future periods. For more information about the Domestication, please see our prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 19, 2025, (the “Domestication Prospectus”), which is available on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov.

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