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-EMC Insurance Companies „
<br />P.O. Box 712 • Des Moines, owa 50303 No. 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. American Liberty Insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />3. Union Insurance Company of Providence, a Rhode Island Company 7,The Hamilton Mutual Insurance Company, an Ohio Corporation
<br />4. Illinois EMCASCO Insurance Company, an Illinois Corporation
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<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 />IN AN AMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING TEN MILLION DOLLARS -------------------($10,000,000.;00)------- ------------
<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 I
<br />The authority hereby granted shall expire April 1, 2000 unless sooner revoked.
<br />AUTHORITY FOR POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />This Ppwor-of-Attorney 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 the first
<br />regularly scheduled meeting of each company duly called and held in 1997:
<br />RESOLVED: The President and Chief Executive Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer and the Secretary of Employers Mutual 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 attorney-in-fact at any 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 power-of-attorney of the Company, shall be valid and binding upon the Company with the same force and affect as though manually affixed,
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Companies have caused these presents to be signed for each by their officers as shown, and the Corporate seals to be hereto affixed this
<br />_7 _day of -- May 19 97
<br />Seals
<br />Bruce G. Kelley, C airman
<br />s Donald L Coughe
<br />wer
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<br />9q? of Companie 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6; resident of Assistant Secretary
<br />?n Rq' ?'. - RFOR
<br />of Company 1; Vice Chairman and
<br />SEAL S 1863 1953 CEO of Company 7
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<br />On this 7 day of May _ AD 19 97 before me a
<br />NS?flA ti? NSUH a c r,?;; At cq Notary Puhlic in and for the State of Iowa, personally appeared Bruce G. Kelley and Donald
<br />?W 4voRq ??': L. Coughennower, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that they are, and are known to me
<br />to be the Chairman, President, Vice Chairman and CEO, and/or Assistant Secretary,
<br />SEAL SEAL SEAL respectively, of each of The Companies above; that the seals affixed to this instrument are
<br />the seals of said corporations; that said instrument was signed and sealed on behalf of each
<br />owa ;;:w ` ?oiaES of the Companies by authority of their respective Boards of Directors; and that the said
<br />Bruce G. Kelley and Donald L. Coughennower, as such officers, acknowledge the execution
<br />Til ti of said instrument to be the voluntary act and deed of each of the Companies.
<br />MUT?gr oy My Commission Expires December 8, 1999.
<br /><r:.?`?? h ' ?"? ?•,.` AMY LEE PETERSEN
<br />uy _`.••• ©?f MY COMMISSION EXPIRES T/ ?,'Z? ?' 21P?2,-
<br />A o December 8, 1999 ' iii
<br />?+T Notary P rf, ? ?? ? owa
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<br />I, David L. Hixenbaugh, Vice President of the Companies, do hereby certify that the foregdl g`oi iftms qf, Bqs Qf Directors by each of the
<br />Companies, and this Power of Attorney issued pursuant thereto on May 7, 199x77, ,may 2`n?r *^
<br />_LLe '1
<br />on behalf of D R. N 1es, Kevin W. M1 431m, Lisa M. Lc?effl r, t L,?'3?? L
<br />are true and correct and are still in full force and effect. ` DAYM © 1, Par>?ltZ J. I-1?¢ ai, all iHK Caul 1, : Jame M. Sildm, 'I Aeresa
<br />In Testimony Whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the facsimile seal of each Company NLitg 2»1 "t bf y
<br />?-19 98
<br />J. Firm-Mich,-::._1 D. Pam, Fee L. Ca7ooell, Kathryn Y. BL
<br />les, "t?2t??E.
<br />Vice-President
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