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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-046361"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DGICA"
cik: "0000800457"
company_name: "DONEGAL GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:29:50.999951+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Donegal Group approves new annual and long-term executive incentive plans for 2026-2028

## Summary
- Annual plan ties 2026 bonuses to commercial lines premium growth, statutory combined ratio, and operating ROE targets.
- Long-term plan covers 2026-2028 and uses average statutory combined ratio; includes 25% penalty if annual bonus not earned in any year.
- Catastrophe impact capped at $15M per year; adjustment discretion retained by joint compensation committees.
- Plans apply to CEO and other named executive officers; details to appear in 2026 proxy statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-046361
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DGICA
- cik: 0000800457
- company_name: DONEGAL GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- 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/800457/000114036125046361/0001140361-25-046361-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/800457/000114036125046361/ef20061690_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-046361.txt

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