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SOMPO INTERNATIONAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that Endurance Assurance Corporation, a Delaware corporation ('EAC'), Endurance American lnsurance Company, a
<br />Delawarecorporation ("EAlC"), Lexon lnsurance Company, a Texas corporation ("LlC"), and/or Bond Saleguard lnsurance Company, a South Dakotacorporation
<br />("BS|C), each, a "Company" and collectively, "Sompo lnternational" do hereby constitute and appoint:Marieke Hess
<br />as true and lawful Attorney(s)-ln-Fact to make, execute, seal, and deliver for, and on its behalf as surety or co-surety; bonds and undertakings given for any and all
<br />purposes, also to execute and deliver on its behalf as aforesaid renewals, extensions, agreements, waivers, consents or stipulations relating to such bonds or
<br />undertakings provided, however, that no single bond or undertaking so made, executed and delivered shall obligate the Company for any portion of the penal sum
<br />thereof in excess of the sum of $ 10,000.00
<br />Such bonds and undertakings for said purposes, when duly executed by said attorney(s)-inJact, shall be binding upon the Company as fully and to the same extent as
<br />if signed by the President of the Company under its corporate seal attested by its Corporate Secrelary.
<br />This appointment is made under and by authority of certain resolutions adopted by the board ol directors of each Company by unanimous written consent effective the
<br />30'h day of March, 2023 lo( BSIC and LIC and the 17h day of May, 2023 tot EAC and EAIC, a copy of which appears below under the heading entitled "Certif icate".
<br />This Power of Attorney is signed and sealed by facsimile under and by authority of the following resolution adopted by the board of directors of each Company by
<br />unanimous written consent effective the 30th day of March, 2023 for BSIC and LIC and the 17th day of May, 2023 tot EAC and EAIC and said resolution has not
<br />since been revoked, amended or repealed:
<br />RESOLVED, that the signature of an individual named above and the seal of the Company may be aflixed to any such power of attorney or any certificate relating
<br />thereto by facsimile, and any such power of attorney or certificate bearing such facsimile signature or seal shall be valid and binding upon the Company in the
<br />fulure with respect to any bond or undertaking to which it is attached.
<br />lN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Companyhas caused this instrument to be signed by the lollowing off icers, and its corporate seal to be aff ixed this 25th day of
<br />May,2023.
<br />Endurance Assurance Corporation --Endurance American .-
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<br />Richard Appel; SVP & Senior Counsel Richard Appel; SVP & Senior Counsel
<br />Lexqr lnsurance Company . *.-Bond $aleguard r.
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<br />",)ffil:lolPYty,?Richard Appel; SVP & Senior Counsel Richard Appel; SVP & Senior Counsel
<br />ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
<br />On this 25th day of May, 2023, before me, personally came the above signatories known to me, who being duly an officer
<br />of each of the Companies; and that he executed said insirument on behalf of each Company by authority of ts
<br />By:
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<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />l, the undersigned Oflicer of each Company, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that:
<br />1. That the original power of attorney of which the foregoing is a copy was duly executed on behalf of each Company and has not since been revoked, amended or
<br />modilied; that the undersigned has compared the loregoing copy thereof with the original power of attorney, and that the same is a true and correct copy of the
<br />original power of attorney and of the whole thereof;
<br />2. The following are resolutions which were adopted by the board of directors of each Company by unanimous written consent elfective 30th day of March, 2023
<br />for BSIC and LIC and the 1Vh day of May, 2023 lor EAC and EAIC and said resolutions have not since been revoked, amended or modified:
<br />"RESOLVED, that each of the individuals named below is authorized to make, execute, seal and deliver for and on behalf of the Company any and all bonds,
<br />undertakings or obligations in surety or co-surety with others: RICHARD M. APPEL, MATTHEW E. CURRAN, MARGARET HYLAND, SHARON L. SIMS,
<br />CHRISTOPHER L. SPARRO,
<br />and be it further
<br />RESOLVED, that each of the individuals named above is authorized to appoint attorneys-injact ior the purpose of making, executing, sealing and delivering bonds,
<br />undertakings or obligations in surety or co-surety for and on behalf of the Company."
<br />3. The undersigned further certifies that the above resolutions are true and correct copies of the resol
<br />lN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal this 16th
<br />utions as so recorded the
<br />No coverage is provided by this Notice nor can it be construed to replace any provisions of any surety bond or olher surely coverage provided. This Notice provides
<br />information concerning possible impact on your surety coverage due to directives issued by OFAC. Pleeee read lhls Notlce carefully.
<br />The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers and enforces sanctions policy, based on Presidential declarations of "national emergency". OFAC has
<br />identilied and listed numerous foreign agents, front organizations, terrorists, terrorist organizaiions, and narcotics traffickers as "Specially Designated Nalionals
<br />and Blocked Persons". This list can be located on the United States Treasury's website - https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List
<br />ln accordance with OFAC regulations, if it is determined that you or any other person or entity claiming the beneiits of any coverage has violated U.S. sanctions law o
<br />is a Specially Designated National and Blocked Person, as identified by OFAC, any coverage will be considered a blocked or frozen contract and all provisions of
<br />any coverage provided are immediately subject to OFAC. When a surety bond or other form of surety coverage is considered to be such a blocked or frozen contract,
<br />no payments nor premium refunds may be made without authorization from OFAC. Other limitations on the premiums and payments may also apply.
<br />Any reproduclions are void.
<br />Surety Claims Submission:
<br />Telephone: 615-553-9500 Mailing Address: Sompo lnternational; 12890 Lebanon Road; Mount Juliet, TN 37122-2870
<br />whole thereof
<br />2025.
<br />By:
<br />INSUNANCE
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<br />2002
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