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No. BI-228d
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />BERKLEY INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
<br />NOTICE: The warning found elsewhere in this Power of Attorney affects the validity thereof. Please review carefully.
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that BERKLEY INSURANCE COMPANY (the "Company"), a corporation duly
<br />organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, having its principal office in Greenwich, CT, has made, constituted
<br />2� and appointed, and does by these presents make, constitute and appoint: John P. Harney, Jacquelyn M. Norstrom; Joseflna Rojo;
<br />EDouglas M. Schmude; Dorothy J. BaUis, Mary F. Doyle; or Pamela S. Higginbotham of Mesirow Insurance Services, Inc. of
<br />""Chicago, IL its true and lawful Attorney -in -Fact, to sign its name as surety only as delineated below and to execute, seal,
<br />acknowledge and deliver any and all bonds and undertakings, with the exception of Financial Guaranty Insurance, providing that no
<br />,,single obligation shall exceed Twenty Five Million and 00/100 U.S. Dollars (U.S.$25,000,000.00), to the same extent as if such
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<br />bonds had been duly executed and acknowledged by the regularly elected officers of the Company at its principal office in their
<br />own proper persons.
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<br />w °This Power of Attorney shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and governed by, the laws of the State of Delaware,
<br />' without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of laws thereof. This Power of Attorney is anted pursuant to the following c' a.b g g P P Y! P g
<br />r„ r','' resolutions which were duly and validly adopted at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company held on January 25, 2010:
<br />" " RESOLVED, that with respect to the Sure business written b Berkley Sure the Chairman of the Board Chief Executive
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<br />Officer, President or any Vice President of the Company, in conjunction with the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary are
<br />hereby authorized to execute powers of attorney authorizing and qualifying the attomey-in-fact named therein to execute
<br />bonds, undertakings, reco izances or other suretyship obligations on behalf of the Company,and to affix the corporate seal
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<br />of the Company to powers of attorney executed pursuant hereto; and said officers may remove any such attorney -in -fact and
<br />Z5, revoke any power of attorney previously granted; and further
<br />.w RESOLVED, that such power of attorney limits the acts of those named therein to the bonds, undertakings, recognizances, or
<br />other suretyship obligations specifically named therein, and they have no authority to bind the Company except in the manner
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<br />and to the extent therein stated; and further
<br />�'; "' RESOLVED, that such power of attorney revokes all previous powers issued on behalf of the attomey-in-fact named; and
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<br />0 RESOLVED, that the signature of any authorized officer and the seal of the Company may be affixed by facsimile to any
<br />power of attorney or certification thereof authorizing the execution and delivery of any bond, undertaking, recognizance, or
<br />other suretyship obligation of the Company; and such signature and seal when so used shall have the same force and effect as
<br />iN m= though manually affixed. The Company may continue to use for the purposes herein stated the facsimile signature of any
<br />person or persons who shall have been such officer or officers of the Company, notwithstanding the fact that they may have
<br />ceased to be such at the time when such instruments shall be issued.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Cornp tty has ca d these presents to be signed and attested by its appropriate officers and its
<br />cotporale seal hereunto affixed this day ofal
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<br />Berkie Insurance Cornpan
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<br />v ' Ira . Led an le a fier
<br />Executive Vice President & Secretary "e o i esident
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<br />,C) E WARNING: THIS POWER INVALID 1F NOT PRINTED ON BLUE "BERKLEY" SECURITY PAPER.
<br />STATE OF wCONNECT'1CUT' )
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<br />"0 COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD ) ss:
<br />Sworn to before rite, a Notary Public in the State of Connecticut, this ay of y Ira S. Lederman
<br />„z and Jeffrey M. 11811cr who aro Sworn to rue to be the Executive Vice Pre "dci t and Sccrct/,/,-7
<br />'Senior "ice President,
<br />; respectively, of Berkley Insurance Compa RIAaC. RUND1'1AICEN
<br />NOTARY PUBLIC
<br />Mid" COMMISSION SION EXPIRES otary Public, State of Connecticut
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<br />7 'El, the undersigned, Assistant Secretary of BERKLEY INSURANCE COMPANY, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a tnie, correct
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<br />wand complete copy of the original Pourer of Attorney; that said Power of Attorney has not been revoked or rescinded and that the authority of the
<br />Attorney -in -Fact set forth therein, who executed the bond or undertaking to which this Power of Attorney is attached, is in full force and ewect as
<br />of this date. �-
<br />Given under my hand and seal of the Company, this 140ti day of
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<br />inc t P. Forte
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