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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001519449-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SKWD"
cik: "0001519449"
company_name: "Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T11:38:28.403123+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Skyward Specialty annual meeting elects directors and ratifies EY as auditor

## Summary
- James Hays re-elected with 26,104,635 votes for, 915,394 withheld, 306,450 broker non-votes.
- Robert Creager re-elected with 23,250,887 votes for, 3,769,142 withheld, 306,450 broker non-votes.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY2023: 27,321,744 for, 406 against, 4,329 abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001519449-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SKWD
- cik: 0001519449
- company_name: Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1519449/000151944923000025/0001519449-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1519449/000151944923000025/skwd-20230525.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001519449-23-000025.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc. shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-25
  source text: The two director nominees named in the Company's proxy statement for the Annual Meeting were elected by the following votes: DIRECTOR NOMINEE FOR WITHHELD BROKER NON-VOTES James Hays 26,104,635 915,394 306,450 Robert Creager 23,250,887 3,769,142 306,450
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1519449/000151944923000025/0001519449-23-000025-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-05-25 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-25
  source text: The ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 was approved by the following votes: FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN 27,321,744 406 4,329
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1519449/000151944923000025/0001519449-23-000025-index.htm

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