As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 2, 2005
Registration No. 333-10465
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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Selective Insurance Group, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
New Jersey 22-2168890
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
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40 Wantage Avenue
Branchville, NJ 07890
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Selective Insurance Group Inc. Stock Compensation Plan
for Nonemployee Directors
(Full title of the plan)
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Michael H. Lanza, Esq.
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Selective Insurance Group, Inc.
40 Wantage Avenue
Branchville, NJ 07890
(Name and address of agent for service)
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(973) 948-3000
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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With a copy to:
Paul T. Schnell, Esq.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Four Times Square
New York, NY 10036-6522
(212) 735-3000
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (the "Company") is filing this Post-Effective
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-8 to deregister certain
securities previously registered by the Company pursuant to its Registration
Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") on August 20, 1996, File No. 333-10465 (the "1996 Form S-8"),
with respect to shares of the Company's common stock, par value $2.00 per
share, and the associated preferred share purchase rights (the "Common Stock"),
thereby registered for offer or sale pursuant to the Selective Insurance Group,
Inc. Stock Compensation Plan for Nonemployee Directors ("Nonemployee Directors
Plan"). A total of 200,000 shares of Common Stock were initially registered for
issuance, offer or sale under the 1996 Form S-8. On October 28, 1997 the
Company's board of directors declared a 2 for 1 stock split payable on December
1, 1997 to shareholders of record on November 17, 1997.
On April 27, 2005, the stockholders of the Company approved the Selective
Insurance Group, Inc. 2005 Omnibus Stock Plan (the "2005 Omnibus Plan"), which
replaces the Nonemployee Directors Plan. No future awards will be made under
the Nonemployee Directors Plan. According to the terms of the 2005 Omnibus
Plan, the shares of Common Stock that were available for grant under the
Nonemployee Directors Plan, but not actually subject to outstanding awards or
forfeited, cancelled, exchanged, surrendered, or not distributed, as of April
27, 2005, are available for issuance under the 2005 Omnibus Plan. The total
number of such shares was 265,332 (the "Carryover Shares"). The Carrover Shares
are hereby deregistered. The 1996 Form S-8 otherwise continues in effect as to
the balance of the shares of Common Stock remaining available for issuance,
offer or sale pursuant thereto.
Contemporaneously with the filing of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to
Registration Statement on Form S-8, the Company is filing a Registration
Statement on Form S-8 to register the shares of Common Stock now available for
issaunce, offer or sale pursuant to the 2005 Omnibus Plan, including, but not
limited to, the Carryover Shares.
There may be shares of Common Stock registered in connection with the
Nonemployee Directors Plan that are represented by awards under the Nonemployee
Directors Plan that, after April 27, 2005, are forfeited, cancelled, exchanged,
surrendered, not distributed, or otherwise result in the return of shares to
the Company. The Company may, from time to time, file additional post-effective
amendments to the 1996 Form S-8, and additional Registration Statements on Form
S-8, carrying forward such shares for issuance, offer or sale in connection
with the 2005 Omnibus Plan.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the
City of Branchville, State of New Jersey, on this 2nd day of June, 2005.
SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP, INC.
By: /s/ Gregory E. Murphy
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Name: Gregory E. Murphy
Title: Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints Gregory E. Murphy, Michael H. Lanza and Michele N. Schumacher, and
each of them, with full power to act without the other, such person's true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration
Statement on Form S-8, and any and all amendments thereto and to file the
same, with exhibits and schedules thereto, and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing necessary or desirable to be done in
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-8 has
been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
Signature Title Date
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/s/ Gregory E. Murphy Chairman, President and Chief Executive June 2, 2005
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Gregory E. Murphy
/s/ Dale A. Thatcher Executive Vice President, Chief Financial June 2, 2005
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Dale A. Thatcher and financial officer)
/s/ Paul D. Bauer Director June 2, 2005
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Paul D. Bauer
/s/ A. David Brown Director June 2, 2005
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A. David Brown
/s/ C. Edward Herder Director June 2, 2005
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C. Edward Herder
/s/ William M. Kearns, Jr. Director June 2, 2005
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William M. Kearns, Jr.
/s/ Joan M. Lamm-Tennant Director June 2, 2005
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Joan M. Lamm-Tennant
/s/ S. Griffin McClellan III Director June 2, 2005
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S. Griffin McClellan III
/s/ Ronald L. O'Kelley Director June 2, 2005
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Ronald L. O'Kelley
/s/ John F. Rockart Director June 2, 2005
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John F. Rockart
/s/ William M. Rue Director June 2, 2005
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William M. Rue
/s/ J. Brian Thebault Director June 2, 2005
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J. Brian Thebault