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No.BI-340c
<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 /> -0 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that BERKLEY INSURANCE COMPANY (the "Company"), a corporation duly
<br /> cz organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware,having its principal office in Greenwich, CT,has made,constituted
<br /> and appointed,and does by these presents make,constitute and appoint:Elizabeth A.Hartzberg or Jimmy M. Evans,Jr. of Marsh
<br /> ice', USA, Inc. of Nashville, TN its true and lawful Attorney-in-Fact, to sign its name as surety only as delineated below and to
<br /> P 2 execute, seal, acknowledge and deliver any and all bonds and undertakings, with the exception of Financial Guaranty Insurance,
<br /> .= providing that no single obligation shall exceed Fifty Million and 00/100 U.S. Dollars (U.S.$50,000,000.00),to the same extent
<br /> as if such bonds had been duly executed and acknowledged by the regularly elected officers of the Company at its principal office
<br /> 7, in their own proper persons.
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<br /> . This Power of Attorney shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and governed by, the laws of the State of Delaware,
<br /> t, without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of laws thereof. This Power of Attorney is granted pursuant to the following
<br /> •o i resolutions which were duly and validly adopted at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company held on January 25,2010:
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<br /> RESOLVED, that, with respect to the Surety business written by Berkley Surety, the Chairman of the Board, Chief
<br /> 0 o Executive Officer, President or any Vice President of the Company, in conjunction with the Secretary or any Assistant
<br /> t+ Secretary are hereby authorized to execute powers of attorney authorizing and qualifying the attorney-in-fact named therein
<br /> . to execute bonds, undertakings, recognizances, or other suretyship obligations on behalf of the Company, and to affix the
<br /> corporate seal of the Company to powers of attorney executed pursuant hereto; and said officers may remove any such
<br /> a attorney-in-fact and revoke any power of attorney previously granted;and further
<br /> ° RESOLVED, that such power of attorney limits the acts of those named therein to the bonds, undertakings, recognizances,
<br /> or other suretyship obligations specifically named therein, and they have no authority to bind the Company except in the
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<br /> L manner and to the extent therein stated;and further
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<br /> RESOLVED, that such power of attorney revokes all previous powers issued on behalf of the attorney-in-fact named; and
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<br /> bo RESOLVED, that the signature of any authorized officer and the seal of the Company may be affixed by facsimile to any
<br /> L 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 /> though manually affixed. The Company may continue to use for the purposes herein stated the facsimile signature of any
<br /> a person or persons who shall have been such officer or officers of the Company,notwithstanding the fact that they may have
<br /> -°a E ceased to be such at the time when such instruments shall be issued.
<br /> o IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused these presents to be signed and attested by its appropriate officers and its
<br /> to corporate seal hereunto affixed this1 �ay of u
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<br /> Attest: Berkl Insurance Company
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<br /> ° -d Ira. ederman < Je . after
<br /> •° �' Executive Vice President&Secretary Se i t e resident
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<br /> oE WARNING: THIS POWER INVALID IF NOT PRINTED ON BLUE"BERKLEY"SECURITY PAPER
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<br /> Sworn to before me, a Notary Public in the State of Connecticut, this 2,1 day of 7 eM{ , j27. by Ira S. Lederman
<br /> and Jeffrey M. Rafter who are sworn to me to be the Executive Vice President u/Secretary, and t Senior Vice President,
<br /> respectively, of Berkley Insurance Company. mA'NorARYutuB,cr
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<br /> Q MY COMMISSION EXPIRES
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<br /> zt I,the undersigned, Assistant Secretary of BERKLEY INSURANCE COMPANY,DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a
<br /> true, correct and complete copy of the original Power of Attorney; that said Power of Attorney has not been revoked or rescinded
<br /> 3 Y and that the authority of the Attorney-in-Fact set forth therein, who executed the bond or dert g to which this Power of
<br /> Attorney is attached,is in full force and effect as of this date.
<br /> Given under my hand and seal of the Company,this/'%1 day of 4 , 20 z1 .
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<br /> Vincent P. orte
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