As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 9, 2003
Registration No. 2-93738
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1933
EMC INSURANCE GROUP INC.
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(Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)
Iowa 42-6234555
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(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
717 Mulberry Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309
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(Address of principal executive office and Zip Code)
1982 Employers Mutual Casualty Company
Incentive Stock Option Plan
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(Full title of the plan)
Donald D. Klemme, EMC Insurance Group Inc.
717 Mulberry Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309
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(Name and address of agent for service)
(515) 280-2626
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(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 2-93738)
(the "Registration Statement") EMC Insurance Group Inc. (the "Company")
registered an aggregate of 500,000 shares of its Common Stock, $1.00 par
value per share ("Common Stock"), to be issued in connection with the 1982
Employers Mutual Casualty Company Incentive Stock Option Plan. The number of
registered shares was increased to 600,000 on July 29, 1983 as a result of a
20 percent stock dividend paid on that date.
The Company will no longer be offering securities under the Registration
Statement. In accordance with the undertaking made by the Company in the
Registration Statement to remove from our registration, by means of a post-
effective amendment, any of the securities which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration
82,944 shares of Common Stock registered under the Registration Statement
which remain unsold as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1.
SIGNATURES
The Registrant. Pursuant to Rule 478 promulgated under the Securities Act of
1933 and 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 the Registration Statement File No. 2-93738 to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
Des Moines, State of Iowa, on July 9, 2003.
EMC INSURANCE GROUP INC.
By:/s/ Bruce G. Kelley July 9, 2003
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Bruce G. Kelley
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-
Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by
the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
By:/s/ Bruce G. Kelley July 9, 2003
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Bruce G. Kelley
President, Chief Executive Officer
and Director
By: /s/ Mark E. Reese July 9, 2003
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Mark E. Reese
Chief Financial and Accounting Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all persons by these presents, that each of the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints, jointly and severally, Bruce G. Kelley and Mark E.
Reese, or either of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), as
his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for him and on his behalf to sign, execute
and file this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to S-8 Registration Statement
No. 2-93738 (1982 Employers Mutual Casualty Company Incentive Stock Option
Plan) and any or all amendments (including, without limitation, post-
effective amendments) to this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to S-8
Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and
all documents required to be filed with respect therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission or any regulatory authority, granting unto
such attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be
done in connection therewith and about the premises in order to effectuate
the same as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do if
personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-
in-fact and agents, or any of them, or his or their substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done.
By: /s/ George C. Carpenter III * May 20, 2003
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George C. Carpenter III, Director
By: /s/ E. H. Creese * May 20, 2003
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E. H. Creese, Director
By: /s/ David J. Fisher * May 20, 2003
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David J. Fisher, Director
By: /s/ George W. Kochheiser * May 20, 2003
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George W. Kochheiser, Director
By: /s/ Raymond A. Michel * May 20, 2003
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Raymond A. Michel, Director
By: /s/ Fredrick A. Schiek * May 20, 2003
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Fredrick A. Schiek, Director
* By /s/ Mark E. Reese July 9, 2003
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Mark E. Reese
(Attorney-in-Fact)