# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001127703
**File Stem:** 0001127703-26-000035
**Filing Date:** 2026-6
**Character Count:** 8587
**Document Hash:** 81382d4fcdd08d06a67674a0d72193b3
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001127703-26-000035.hdr.sgml**: 20260626

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001127703-26-000035

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: S-8 POS

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260626

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260626

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260626

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** PROASSURANCE CORP
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001127703
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 631261433
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8 POS
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-279688
- **FILM NUMBER:** 261126148

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 BROOKWOOD PLACE
- **CITY:** BIRMINGHAM
- **STATE:** AL
- **ZIP:** 35209
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 2058774400

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 BROOKWOOD PLACE
- **CITY:** BIRMINGHAM
- **STATE:** AL
- **ZIP:** 35209

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 26, 2026** 

**Registration No. 333-279628**

**Registration No. 333-279688**

**Registration No. 333-188751**

**Registration No. 333-156645**

**Registration No. 333-119917** 

**Registration No. 333-111136**

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENTS**

**TO**

**FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT No. 333-279628**

**FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT No. 333-279688**

**FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT No. 333-188751**

**FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT No. 333-156645**

**FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT No. 333-119917** 

**FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT No. 333-111136**

**UNDER** 

**THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933** 

**ProAssurance Corporation**

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)** 

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| **Delaware** | **63-16533** |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction of**<br>**Incorporation or Organization)** | **(I.R.S. Employer**<br>**Identification No.)** |

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**100 Brookwood Place**

**Birmingham, Alabama**

**(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** 

**35209**

**(Zip Code)** 

**Amended and Restated ProAssurance Corporation Stock Ownership Plan** 

**ProAssurance Corporation 2004 Equity Incentive Plan** 

**ProAssurance Corporation 2008 Equity Incentive Plan** 

**ProAssurance Corporation Amended and Restated 2014 Equity Incentive Plan**

**ProAssurance Corporation 2024 Equity Incentive Plan**

**(Full Title of the Plans)** 

**Richard Anderson**

**Chief Executive Officer**

**ProAssurance Corporation**

**100 Brookwood Place**

**Birmingham, Alabama**

**(205) 877-4400**

**(Name and address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service of process)** 

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

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| Large accelerated filer | ☒ | Accelerated filer | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer | ☐ | Smaller reporting company | ☐ |
| | | Emerging growth company | ☐ |

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

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**DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES**

As of June 26, 2026, ProAssurance Corporation (the "Company"), has been acquired by The Doctors Company ("The Doctors Company") pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement"), dated as of March 19, 2025, by and among the Company, The Doctors Company, and Jackson Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Doctors Company ("Merger Sub"). On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the "Merger"), with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation in the Merger and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Doctors Company.

As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings and sales of securities under the below-listed Registration Statements on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statements"), which have been previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), and is no longer issuing securities under the Amended and Restated ProAssurance Corporation Stock Ownership Plan (the "2003 Plan"), the ProAssurance Corporation 2004 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2004 Plan"), the ProAssurance Corporation 2008 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2008 Plan"), the ProAssurance Corporation Amended and Restated 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2014 Plan") and the ProAssurance Corporation 2024 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2024 Plan"). Accordingly, the Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the below-listed Registration Statements No. 333-111136, No. 333-119917, No. 333-156645 and No. 333-188751 and this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the below-listed Registration Statement No. 333-279688 (together the "Post-Effective Amendments") to deregister any and all securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued thereunder (note that the common stock numbers listed below do not take into account any applicable corporate actions, such as stock splits, that may have been taken in the interim):

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-111136), filed with the SEC on December 12, 2003, registering the offer and sale of 100,000 shares of ProAssurance's common stock, $0.01 par value per share ("Common Stock") under the 2003 Plan;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-119917) filed with the SEC on October 22, 2004, registering the offer and sale of 2,500,000 shares of Common Stock under the 2004 Plan;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3. Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-156645) filed with the SEC on January 9, 2009, registering the offer and sale of 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock under the 2008 Plan;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4. Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-188751) filed with the SEC on May 22, 2013, registering the offer and sale of 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock under the 2014 Plan; and

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5. Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-279688), filed with the SEC on May 22, 2024, registering the offer and sale of 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock under the 2024 Plan, as amended pursuant to Post- Effective Amendment No 1. to Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-279628) filed with the SEC on May 23, 2024, correcting the number of shares of Common Stock registered under the 2024 Plan to 2,400,000 shares of Common Stock.

The Registrant, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of each Registration Statement. This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II of each Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

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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 Post-Effective Amendment to each Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Birmingham, Alabama on June 26, 2026.

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| **ProAssurance Corporation** | **ProAssurance Corporation** |
| By: | /s/ David A. McHale |
|  | Name: David A. McHale |
|  | Title: Secretary |

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No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to each Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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