(1) This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of common stock which may become issuable under the Plans being registered pursuant to this Registration Statement by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results in an increase in the number of the Registrant’s outstanding shares of common stock. In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefits plans described herein.

 

(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act on the basis of the average of the high and low sale prices for a share of common stock of Employers Holdings, Inc. as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on April 13, 2007.

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Registration Statement has been filed pursuant to General Instruction E on Form S-8 to register 682,963 additional shares of common stock to be offered pursuant to the Employers Holdings, Inc. Equity and Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). A total of 922,875 shares of common stock were previously registered under the Plan under a registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-140395), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 1, 2007, which is currently effective and is hereby incorporated by reference.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Reno, Nevada, on this 16th day of April, 2007.

 

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Douglas D. Dirks, William E. Yocke and Lenard T. Ormsby, and each of them, as his or her attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution in each, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this registration statement on Form S-8 and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

 

 

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