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POWER OF ATTORNEY APPOINTING INDIVIDUAL ATTORNEY -IN -FACT
<br />Know All Men By These Presents, That The Continental Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania insurance company, is a duly organized and existing insurance
<br />company haling its principal office in the City of Chicago, and State of Illinois, and that it does by virtue of the signature and seal herein affixed hereby make, constitute
<br />and appoint
<br />Kristin S. Bender , Individually
<br />of Morristown New Jersey : its true and lawful Attorney(s)-in-Fact with full power and authority hereby conferred to sign, seal and execute for
<br />and on its behalf bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instruments of similar nature
<br />- In Unlimited Amounts -
<br />Surety Bond Number: _ 03992-CNA-24-175
<br />Principal; Gibson -Lewis, LLC
<br />Obligee: City of South Bend Indiana
<br />and to bind them thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such instruments were signed by a duly authorized officer of the insurance company and all the acts of said
<br />Attorney, pursuant to the authority hereby given is hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br />This Power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the By -Laws and Resolutions, printed below, duly adopted, as indicated, by the Board of
<br />Directors of the insurance company.
<br />In Witness Whereof, The Continental Insurance Company has caused these presents to be signed by its Vice President and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed on
<br />this 13th day of March, 2024.
<br />The Continental Insurance Company
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<br />Larry Kasten Vice President
<br />State of South Dakota, County of Minnehaha, ss:
<br />On this 13th day of March, 2024, before me personally came Larry Kasten to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say: that he resides in the City
<br />of Sioux Falls, State of South Dakota; that he is a Vice President of The Continental Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania insurance company, described in and which
<br />executed the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said insurance company; that the seal affixed to the said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed
<br />pursuant to authority given by the Board of Directors of said insurance company and that he signed his name thereto pursuant to like authority, and acknowledges same to be
<br />the act and deed of said insurance company.
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<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />I, Paula Kolsrud, Assistant Secretary of The Continental Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania insurance company, do hereby certify that the Power of Attorney herein
<br />above set forth is still in force, and further certify that the By -Laws and Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the insurance company printed below are still in force. In
<br />testimony whereof have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said insurance company this 22nd day of November 2024
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<br />Paula Kolsrud �A3sistant Secretary
<br />Authorizing By -Laws and Resolutions
<br />ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY:
<br />This Power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority ofthe following resolution duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company at a
<br />meeting held on May 10, 1995.
<br />"RESOLVED: That any Senior or Group Vice President may authorize an officer to sign specific documents, agreements and instruments on behalf of the
<br />Company provided that the name of such authorized officer and a description of the documents, agreements or instruments that such officer may sign will be
<br />provided in writing by the Senior or Group Vice President to the Secretary of the Company prior to such execution becoming effective."
<br />This Power of Attorney is signed by Larry Kasten, Vice President, who has been authorized pursuant to the above resolution to execute power of attorneys on behalf of The
<br />Continental Insurance Company.
<br />This Power of Attorney is signed and sealed by facsimile under and by the authority of the following Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company by
<br />unanimous written consent dated the 251" day of April, 2012:
<br />"Whereas, the bylaws of the Company or specific resolution of the Board of Directors has authorized various officers (the "Authorized Officers") to execute various
<br />policies, bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instruments of like nature; and
<br />Whereas, from time to time, the signature of the Authorized Officers in addition to being provided in original, hard copy format, may be provided via facsimile or
<br />otherwise in an electronic format (collectively, "Electronic Signatures"); Now therefore be it resolved: that the Electronic Signature of any Authorized Officer shall be
<br />valid and binding on the Company."
<br />This Power of Attorney may be signed by digital signature and sealed by a digital or otherwise electronic -formatted corporate seal under and by the authority of the
<br />following Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company by unanimous written consent dated the 27th day of April, 2022:
<br />"RESOLVED: That it is in the best interest of the Company to periodically ratify and confirm any corporate documents signed by digital signatures and to ratify and
<br />confirm the use of a digital or otherwise electronic -formatted corporate seal, each to be considered the act and deed of the Company."
<br />Form F6850-2/2024
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