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No. BI-138a <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 /> and appointed, and does by these presents make, constitute and appoint: Fred Fisher, David A. Bennett, Angela Boie, Joanna <br /> Yarbrough, Mason Pope or Andrea M. Leach of BB&T Cooper, Love, Jackson, Thorton & Harwell of Nashville, TN its true <br /> ▪ and lawful Attorney-in-Fact,to sign its name as surety only as delineated below and to execute,seal, acknowledge and deliver any <br /> and all bonds and undertakings, with the exception of Financial Guaranty Insurance, providing that no single obligation shall <br /> exceed Fifty Million and 00/100 U.S. Dollars(U.S.$50,000,000.00),to the same extent as if such bonds had been duly executed <br /> and acknowledged by the regularly elected officers of the Company at its principal office in their own proper persons. <br /> This Power of Attorney shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and governed by, the laws of the State of Delaware, <br /> .2 without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of laws thereof. This Power of Attorney is granted pursuant to the following <br /> 2 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 Surety business written by Berkley Surety Group, the Chairman of the Board, Chief <br /> :Executive Officer, President or any Vice President of the Company, in conjunction with the Secretary or any Assistant <br /> ▪ y 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 /> attorney-in-fact and revoke any power of attorney previously granted;and further <br /> p <br /> �...Y 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 <br /> H manner and to the extent therein stated;and further <br /> RESOLVED, that such power of attorney revokes all previous powers issued on behalf of the attorney-in-fact named; and <br /> further <br /> • J 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 /> ti 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 /> = 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 Company has caur d/these presents to be signed and attested by its appropriate officers and its <br /> s corporate seal hereunto affixed this j day of OC e( ,2013. <br /> o Attest: Berkley Insurance Company <br /> 7: (Seal) By ��II By <br /> Ira . L derman Je :� -. Halter <br /> s Senior Vice President&Secretary Se i - President <br /> • WARNING: THIS POWER INVALID IF NOT PRINTED ON BLUE"BERKLEY"SECURITY PAPER. <br /> STATE OF CONNECTICUT) <br /> = ) s s: <br /> COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD ) /-/ <br /> s Sworn to before me, a Notary Public in the State of Connecticut,this II day of DCkl Q j� , 2013, by Ira S. Lederman and <br /> m Jeffrey M.Hafter who are sworn to me to be the Senior Vice President and Secret,;and t e Seni. Vice Pr sident,respectively, of <br /> Berkley Insurance Company. <br /> Air/ <br /> z• COREY <br /> otary Public,State of C)n Icticut NOTARY PUBUC <br /> CONNECTICUT <br /> CERTIFICATE MY iMISSION EXPIRES OCTOBER 31,2017 <br /> z <br /> 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 /> 5 =and that the authority of the Attorney-in-Fact set forth therein, who executed the bond or undertaking 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 day of �� <br /> (Seal) `I <br /> A <br />