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accession: "0001104659-23-126376"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SIGI"
cik: "0000230557"
company_name: "SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2023-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T12:15:53.749469+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Selective Insurance Group amends Bylaws: annual meeting timing, electronic notice, committee structure

## Summary
- Annual meeting no longer required to be held during last week of April; greater scheduling flexibility added.
- Stockholder notice for annual and special meetings may now be delivered via electronic transmission.
- Board may appoint any person who is not a director candidate as inspector of elections at meetings.
- New Section 7.5 requires annual appointment of Chairperson, and Lead Independent Director if Chair not independent.
- Committee designations removed from Bylaws; stockholder inspection of books requires five-day written notice.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-126376
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SIGI
- cik: 0000230557
- company_name: SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2023-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/230557/000110465923126376/0001104659-23-126376-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/230557/000110465923126376/tm2332932d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP INC: Amendments to Bylaws including changes to meeting timing and notice, inspector of elections, stock certificate signing, chairperson appointment, committee structure, notice delivery, board authority references, and stockholder inspection notice period, effective January 1, 2024 (effective 2024-01-01).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-01-01
  source text: On December 12, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted the following amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Company’s By-Laws (the “Bylaws”), with such Amendments to be effective as of January 1, 2024:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/230557/000110465923126376/0001104659-23-126376-index.htm

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