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EMC Insurance Companies N
<br />P.O. Box 712 • Des 'Moines, IA 50303-0712
<br />CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY INDIVIDUAL ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that:
<br />1. Employers Mutual Casualty Company, an Iowa Corporation 5. Dakota Fire Insurance Company, a North Dakota Corporation
<br />2. EMCASCO Insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation 6. EMC Property & Casualty Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />3. Union Insurance Compaq of Providence, an Iowa Corporation 7. The Hamilton Mutual Insurance Company, an Ohio Corporation
<br />4. Illinois EMCASCO insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />hereinafter referred to;severally , as "Company" and collectively as "Companies each does, by these presents, make; constitute and appoint:
<br />DONALD E. APPLEBY, GLORIA C. BLACKBURN, FLORIETTA ACOSTA, KRISTEN L. MCCORMICK, DILYNN'GUERN,
<br />PAMELA J. HANSEN, CYNTHIA M. BURNETT, J. R. RICHARDS, DOUGLAS J. ROTHEY, INDIVIDUALLY, DENVER, COLORADO.............
<br />its true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority conferred to sign, seal, and execute its lawful bonds, undertakings, and other obligatory instruments of a
<br />similar nature as follows:
<br />ANY AND ALL BONDS
<br />and to bind each Company thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such instruments were signed by the duly authorized officers of each such Company, and all of
<br />the acts of said attomey pursuant to the authority hereby given are hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br />The authority hereby granted. shall expire April 1, 2006 unless sooner revoked.
<br />AUTHORITY FOR POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />This Power-of-Attomey is,.made and executed pursuant to and by the authority of the following resolution of the Boards of Directors of each of the Companies at a
<br />regularly scheduled meeting of each company duly called and held in 1999:
<br />RESOLVED: The President and Chief Executive Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer and the Secretary of Employers Mutuai.Casualty Company shall have power
<br />and authority to (1),appoint attorneys=in-fact and authorize them to execute on behalf of each Company and attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds and
<br />undertakings, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, and (2) to remove any such attomey-in-fact at arty time and revoke,
<br />the power and authority given to him or her. Attorneys-in-fact shall have power and authority, subject to the terms and limitations of the power-of-attorney issued to them,
<br />to execute and deliver on behalf of the Company, and to attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds and undertakings, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and
<br />other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, and any such instrument executed by any such attorney-in-fact shall be fully and in all respects binding upon the Company..
<br />Certification as to the validity of any power-of-attorney authorized herein made by an officer of Employers Mutual Casualty Company shall be fully and in all respects,
<br />binding upon this Company. The facsimile or mechanically reproduced signature of such officer, whether made heretofore or hereafter, wherever.appearing upon a
<br />certified copy of any,powerdf-attomey of the Company, shall be valid and binding upon the Company with the same force and affeotas though; manually affixed
<br />IN WVtl ESS WHEREOF, the Commnies have caused these pgnnts to be signed for each by their officers as shown, and the Corporate seals to be hereto affixed this
<br />day of ay
<br />Seals
<br />•?????•,, • ^" Bruce G. Kelley, Chairman Je ey S. Birdsley
<br />ps`? wsu'94 ;,.5 ?y . „?. g„ s -, of Companies 2, 3, resident Assistant Secretary
<br />4 , pgpoRgl, ?F, • yJ `pPPpR,q? y? o ; `pFPORgT; y of Company 1; Vice Chairman and
<br />o SEAL 3 0 1863 1953 CEO of Company 7
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<br />On this 7th day of - May AD 2003 before' me a
<br />0 5u?a c *Q ;q'vcF o;; 'A; cqs ; Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa, ersona{l appeared Bruce G. Kelley and Jeffrey S.
<br />y? pPPORq o c PPpflq p0R oBirdsley, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that they are, and are known to me to be the
<br />° ` `pP q y Chairman, President, Vice Chairman and CEO, and/or Assistant Secretary, respectively, of
<br />;SEAL ? SEAL z y SEAL o each of The Companies above; that the seals affixed to this instrument are the seals of said
<br />,?° .,•:,, % Fs••,,,,,,,,. ?P ' corporations; that said instrument was signed and sealed on behalf of each of the:Companies
<br />Towa , ?q?9TRpPKp?;.° '?•,,t?OINES ;, by authority of their respective Boards of Directors; and that the said Bruce G. Kelley and.
<br />Jeffrey S. Birdsley, as such officers, acknowledge the execution of said instrument to be the
<br />At 2 voluntary act and deed of each of the Companies.
<br />?TUq My Commission Expires September 30, 2006.
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<br />i f `4 RUTA KRUMINS
<br />o? Commission Number 176255
<br />pCtLk'? " My Comm. Exp. Sept. 30, 2006 Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa
<br />r CERTIFICATE
<br />I, David L. Hixenbaugh, Vice President of the Companies, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution of the Boards of Directors by each of the
<br />Companies, a this P09 er of Att me ssued uantt theret n April 7, 2004
<br />on;behalf of uonald Apple9.y, 'oria G. a( '. urn, ?porie a Acosta, risen L. c ormic , i ynn uern, Fame la J. Hansen,
<br />are true and correct and are still in full force and effect. Cynthia M. Burnett, J. R. Richards, Douglas J. Rothey
<br />In Testimony Whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the facsimile seal of each Company this 31st day of March 2005
<br />Vice-President
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