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SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP, INC.

40 Wantage Avenue

Branchville, NJ 07890

     March 29, 2005

VIA FACSIMILE & EDGAR

Division of Corporation Finance

Securities and Exchange Commission

450 Fifth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attn:  Ms. Sonia Barros

Re:
Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (the “Company”)
Registration Statement on Form
S-4 (File No. 333-123315)

Ladies
and Gentlemen:

                                Pursuant
to Rule 461 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, we respectfully request that the
effective date of the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-123315) be
accelerated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to
4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on March 31, 2005, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

                                Pursuant
to your letter dated March 21, 2005, the Company hereby acknowledges (i) should the
Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing
effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to
the filing; (ii) the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated
authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full
responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and (iii)
the Company may not assert this action as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the
Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

                                We
request that we be notified of such effectiveness by a telephone call to the undersigned
at (973) 948-1310 and that such effectiveness also be confirmed in writing.

    Very truly yours,

SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP, INC.

    By:
     /s/ Michele N. Schumacher, Esq.

    Name:
      Michele N. Schumacher, Esq.

    Title:
      Vice President, Corporate Secretary

   & Corporate Governance Officer