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LANCASTER, Pa., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. ("EIHI") announced today that Bruce Eckert, Chief Executive Officer, and Kevin Shook, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, are scheduled to present at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. Annual Insurance Conference. The two-day conference will be held at the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel in New York, New York. EIHI will conduct its presentation on Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 3:40 p.m. Eastern Time. The conference will be webcast live at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods' Web site: http://www.kbw.com/.

EIHI operates through its subsidiaries a domestic casualty insurance group specializing in workers' compensation, a domestic accident and life insurance company, an offshore specialty reinsurance company and a third-party claims administration company.

EIHI recently announced on August 7, 2008, that it executed a definitive agreement to acquire Employers Security Holding Company ("Employers"). Employer's wholly-owned subsidiary is Employers Security Insurance Company, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based mono-line workers' compensation insurance company. The transaction is expected to close late in the third quarter of 2008.

EIHI is located at 25 Race Avenue in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The company's Web address is http://www.easterninsuranceholdings.com/.

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