form8k110807.htm
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
DC 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date
of
Report: (Date of earliest event reported) November 5,
2007
OLD
REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware
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001-10607
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36-2678171
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(State
or other jurisdiction
of
incorporation)
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(Commission
File
Number)
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(I.R.S.
Employer
Identification
No.)
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307
North
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601
(Address
of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(312)
346-8100
(Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code)
N/A
(Former
name or former address, if changed since last report)
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the
appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
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provisions (see General Instruction A.2 below):
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Wholly
owned subsidiaries of the Registrant have acquired a total of 12,236,044 shares
of the common stock of The PMI Group Inc. (“PMI”) in open market purchases over
the past 11 weeks. The purchases represent 15.08% percent of
PMI’s issued and outstanding common stock as reported in its Form 10-Q quarterly
report for the quarter ended September 30, 2007. Through the same
subsidiaries, the Registrant has also acquired 8,979,409 shares of MGIC
Investment Corporation (“MGIC”) common stock in open market purchases over the
same period of time. The purchases represent 10.98% of MGIC’s issued
and outstanding common stock as reported in its Form 10-Q quarterly report
for
the quarter ended June 30, 2007. The PMI and MGIC stock purchases
were made with investable funds and general purpose funds of the Registrant
and
its subsidiaries. All of the purchases were made, and the Registrant
and its subsidiaries intend to hold the securities strictly as passive
investments and not for the purpose of or with the effect of changing or
influencing the control of either PMI or MGIC, or as participants in any
transaction having that purpose or effect.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant
has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto
duly authorized.
OLD
REPUBLIC
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Registrant
Date: November
8,
2007 By:
/s/
Spencer
LeRoy III
Spencer LeRoy III
Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel