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Organization | Organization Selective Insurance Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, (collectively referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our”) offers standard commercial, standard personal, and excess and surplus lines (“E&S”) property and casualty insurance products. Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (referred to as the “Parent”) was incorporated in New Jersey in 1977 and its main offices are located in Branchville, New Jersey. The Parent’s common stock is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “SIGI.” We have provided a glossary of terms as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 10-K, which defines certain industry-specific and other terms that are used in this Form 10-K. We classify our business into four reportable segments:
• | Standard Commercial Lines - comprised of insurance products and services provided in the standard marketplace to our commercial customers, who are typically businesses, non-profit organizations, and local government agencies.
• | Standard Personal Lines - comprised of insurance products and services, including flood insurance coverage, provided primarily to individuals acquiring coverage in the standard marketplace.
• | E&S Lines - comprised of insurance products and services provided to customers who have not obtained coverage in the standard marketplace.
• | Investments - invests the premiums collected by our Standard Commercial Lines, Standard Personal Lines, and E&S Lines, as well as amounts generated through our capital management strategies, which may include the issuance of debt and equity securities.
This is a change from the segments that we have previously reported of Standard Insurance Operations, E&S Insurance Operations, and Investments. All prior year information contained in this Form 10-K has been restated to reflect our revised segments. For qualitative information behind the change, see Note 11. "Segment Information" below.

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