---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000101199-22-000087"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UFCS"
cik: "0000101199"
company_name: "UNITED FIRE GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2022-10-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T01:49:18.945413+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# United Fire Group appoints Kevin J. Leidwinger as Class A director

## Summary
- Effective August 22, 2022, Leidwinger appointed to Board as Class A director until 2023 annual meeting.
- He will serve on Executive, Risk Management, and Investment Committees.
- Leidwinger will not receive separate compensation; no transactions requiring disclosure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000101199-22-000087
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UFCS
- cik: 0000101199
- company_name: UNITED FIRE GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2022-10-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101199/000010119922000087/0000101199-22-000087-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101199/000010119922000087/ufcs-20220819.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000101199-22-000087.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kevin J. Leidwinger was appointed as Class A director at UNITED FIRE GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class A director
  source text: On August 19, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of United Fire Group, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Kevin J. Leidwinger as a Class A director for a term expiring at the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of shareholders, effective as of August 22, 2022 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101199/000010119922000087/0000101199-22-000087-index.htm

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