---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000074260-24-000002"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ORI"
cik: "0000074260"
company_name: "OLD REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CORP"
filed_at: "2024-01-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T01:44:36.068960+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Old Republic amends bylaws to adopt majority voting standard for director elections

## Summary
- Board adopted majority voting standard for uncontested director elections.
- Director nominees failing to receive majority must tender resignation for committee review.
- Board to publicly disclose resignation decision within 90 days of election certification.
- Removed requirement to make stockholder list available at annual meeting; other clerical changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000074260-24-000002
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ORI
- cik: 0000074260
- company_name: OLD REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CORP
- filed_at: 2024-01-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/74260/000007426024000002/0000074260-24-000002-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/74260/000007426024000002/ori-20240109.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000074260-24-000002.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  OLD REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CORP: Amended and restated by-laws to update voting standard for uncontested director elections to majority, remove stockholder list requirement at annual meeting, and incorporate clerical changes. Also approved changes to Governance Guidelines for director resignation policy in uncontested elections (effective 2024-01-09).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-01-09
  source text: On January 9, 2024, the Board amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated By-laws (the “By-laws”), effectively immediately, to, among other things: • update the voting standard for the election of directors to a majority standard in the event of uncontested elections; • remove the requirement that the stockholder list be made available during the annual meeting; and • incorporate other clerical changes that have been approved by the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/74260/000007426024000002/0000074260-24-000002-index.htm

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