Aggregate Catastrophe Excess of Loss and Per Occurrence Catastrophe Excess of Loss Reinsurance Contract between Employers Mutual Casualty Company and EMC Reinsurance Company

Annual Catastrophe Aggregate. The Reinsurer shall be liable in respect of Cat Loss Occurrences and excess North American crop losses during the Contract Year for Ultimate Net Loss over and above an initial Ultimate Net Loss of Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000.00) (the “Catastrophe Aggregate Retention”), subject to a limit of liability to the Reinsurer of 80% of One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000.00) of Ultimate Net Loss (the “Annual Catastrophe Aggregate Limit”). Thus, the Reinsurer’s maximum liability under this annual catastrophe aggregate coverage is Eighty Million Dollars ($80,000,000.00) of Ultimate Net Loss.

Per Occurrence. The Reinsurer shall be liable in respect of each Cat Loss Occurrence during the Contract Year for Ultimate Net Loss over and above an initial Ultimate Net Loss of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00) (the “Per Occurrence Retention”), subject to a limit of liability to the Reinsurer of 80% of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00) of Ultimate Net Loss from each Cat Loss Occurrence (the “Per Occurrence Limit”). The limit of liability to the Reinsurer from Ultimate Net Loss under this per occurrence reinsurance is Eight Million Dollars ($8,000,000.00), regardless of the number of Cat Loss Occurrences.

Loss or damage occasioned by war, invasion, hostilities, acts of foreign enemies, civil war, rebellion, insurrection, military or usurped power, martial law or confiscation by order of any government or public authority, but not excluding loss or damage which would be covered under a standard form of Policy containing a standard war exclusion clause or specific War Coverage provided in Marine policies;

Mold, other than as a result of a covered peril.

The Company shall pay the Reinsurer a premium of Three Million One Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars ($3,140,000.00) for the annual catastrophe aggregate reinsurance protection provided under Article 2 Section A of this Contract (the “Annual Catastrophe Aggregate Premium”). The Annual Catastrophe Aggregate Premium will be renegotiated on an annual basis for each Contract Year the Contract remains in place. The Annual Catastrophe Aggregate Premium is to be paid quarterly. Balances will be settled during the duration of the Contract via intercompany balance transfers.

The Company shall pay the Reinsurer a premium of One Million Nine Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars ($1,940,000.00) for the per occurrence reinsurance protection provided under Article 2 Section B of this Contract (the “Per Occurrence Premium”). The Per Occurrence Premium will be renegotiated on an annual basis for each Contract Year the Contract remains in place. The Per Occurrence Premium is to be paid quarterly. Balances will be settled during the duration of the Contract via intercompany balance transfers.

The Company shall furnish the Reinsurer with such information as may be required by the Reinsurer for completion of its financial statements.

1.    “Ultimate Net Loss” means the catastrophe losses paid by the Reinsured or which the Reinsured becomes liable to pay arising out of "Reinsurance Treaties." Such loss includes Loss Adjustment Expense, Extra Contractual Obligations and any Loss in Excess of Policy Limits as defined in the Extra Contractual Obligations/Excess of Policy Limits Article, less any reinsurance recoveries.

Salvages and all recoveries (including amounts due from all other reinsurance contracts that inure to the benefit of this Contract), shall be first deducted from such loss to arrive at the amount of liability attaching hereunder.

All salvages, recoveries or payments recovered or received subsequent to loss settlement hereunder shall be applied as if recovered or received prior to the aforesaid settlement, and all necessary adjustments shall be made by the parties hereto.

The Company shall be deemed to be “liable to pay” a loss when a judgment has been rendered that neither the Company [for direct reinsurance business] nor EMCC [for assumed reinsurance business] plans to appeal, and/or the Company or EMCC has obtained a release, and/or the Company or EMCC has accepted a proof of loss.

Nothing in this clause shall be construed to mean that losses are not recoverable hereunder until the Company’s Ultimate Net Loss has been ascertained.

“Loss Adjustment Expense” means costs and expenses incurred or assumed by the Company in connection with the investigation, appraisal, adjustment, settlement, litigation, defense or appeal of a specific claim or loss, or alleged loss, including but not limited to:

court costs;

costs of supersedeas and appeal bonds;

monitoring counsel expenses;

legal expenses and costs incurred in connection with coverage questions and legal actions connected thereto, including but not limited to declaratory judgment actions;

post-judgment interest;

pre-judgment interest, unless included as part of an award or judgment; and

subrogation, salvage and recovery expenses.

1.    "Cat Loss Occurrence(s)" shall mean any one accident, casualty, disaster, or occurrence or series of accidents, casualties, disasters or occurrences arising out of or following from one event and coded as such in EMCC’s claims and/or accounting system records.

This Contract shall cover Extra Contractual Obligations, as provided in the definition of Ultimate Net Loss. “Extra Contractual Obligations” shall be defined as those liabilities not covered under any other provision of this Contract and that arise from the handling of any claim on business covered hereunder, such liabilities arising because of, but not limited to, the following: failure by the Company or EMCC to settle within the policy limit, or by reason of alleged or actual negligence, fraud or bad faith in rejecting an offer of settlement, or in the preparation of the defense or in the trial of any action against its insured or reinsured, or in the preparation or prosecution of an appeal consequent upon such action.

This Contract shall cover Loss in Excess of Policy Limits, as provided in the definition of Ultimate Net Loss. “Loss in Excess of Policy Limits” shall be defined as Loss in excess of the policy limit, having been incurred because of, but not limited to, failure by the Company or EMCC to settle within the policy limit or by reason of alleged or actual negligence, fraud or bad faith in rejecting an offer of settlement, or in the preparation of the defense or in the trial of any action against its insured or reinsured, or in the preparation or prosecution of an appeal consequent upon such action.

An Extra Contractual Obligation and/or Loss in Excess of Policy Limits shall be deemed to have occurred on the same date as the loss covered under the Company's or EMCC’s policy, and shall constitute part of the original loss.

For the purposes of the Loss in Excess of Policy Limits coverage hereunder, the word “Loss” shall mean any amounts for which the Company or EMCC would have been contractually liable to pay had it not been for the limit of the original policy.

Loss Adjustment Expense in respect of Extra Contractual Obligations and/or Loss in Excess of Policy Limits shall be covered hereunder in the same manner as other Loss Adjustment Expense.

However, this Article shall not apply where the loss has been incurred due to final legal adjudication of fraud of a member of the Board of Directors or a corporate officer of the Company or EMCC acting individually, collectively or in collusion with any individual or corporation or any other organization or party involved in the presentation, defense or settlement of any claim covered hereunder.

In no event shall coverage be provided to the extent not permitted under law.

Where the word “Dollars” and/or the sign “$” appear in this Contract, they shall mean United States Dollars, and all payments hereunder shall be in United States Dollars.

For purposes of this Contract, where the Company or EMCC receives premiums or pays losses in currencies other than United States Dollars, such premiums or losses shall be converted into United States Dollars at the actual rates of exchange at which these premiums or losses are entered in EMCC’s books.

The Reinsurer is reinsuring, subject to the terms and conditions of this Contract, the obligations assumed by the Reinsured under any Reinsurance Treaties. The Reinsurer shall be bound by the judgment of the Company as to the obligation(s) and liability(ies) of the Company under any Reinsurance Treaties.

Any inadvertent error, omission or delay in complying with the terms and conditions of this Contract shall not be held to relieve either party hereto from any liability that would attach to it hereunder if such error, omission or delay had not been made, provided such error, omission or delay is rectified immediately upon discovery.

In the event of insolvency and the appointment of a conservator, liquidator or statutory successor of the Company, the portion of any risk or obligation assumed by the Reinsurer shall be payable to the conservator, liquidator or statutory successor on the basis of claims allowed against the insolvent Company by any court of competent jurisdiction or by any conservator, liquidator or statutory successor of the Company having authority to allow such claims, without diminution because of that insolvency, or because the conservator, liquidator or statutory successor has failed to pay all or a portion of any claims.

Payments by the Reinsurer as above set forth shall be made directly to the Company or to its conservator, liquidator or statutory successor, except as provided by applicable law and regulation in the event of the insolvency of the Company.

In the event of the insolvency of the Reinsurer, the liquidator, receiver, conservator or statutory successor of the Reinsurer shall notify the Company of the pendency of a claim against the insolvent Reinsurer on the Contract or contracts reinsured within a reasonable time after such claim is filed in the insolvency proceeding and, during the pendency of such claim, the Company may investigate such claim and interpose, at its own expense, in the proceeding where such claim is to be adjudicated any defense or defenses which it may deem available to the Reinsurer or its liquidator, receiver, conservator or statutory successor.

The original reinsured or policyholder shall not have any rights against the Reinsurer which are not specifically set forth in this Contract, or in a specific agreement between the Reinsurer and the original reinsured or policyholder.

This Contract may be executed by:

an original written ink signature of paper documents;

an exchange of facsimile copies showing the original written ink signature of paper documents;

electronic signature technology employing computer software and a digital signature or digitizer pen pad to capture a person’s handwritten signature in such a manner that the signature is unique to the person signing, is under the sole control of the person signing, is capable of verification to authenticate the signature and is linked to the document signed in such a manner that if the data is changed, such signature is invalidated.

The use of any one or a combination of these methods of execution shall constitute a legally binding and valid signing of this Contract. This Contract may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which, when duly executed, shall be deemed an original.

This Reinsurance does not cover any loss or liability accruing to the Reassured, directly or indirectly, and whether as Insurer or Reinsurer, from any Pool of Insurers or Reinsurers formed for the purpose of covering Atomic or Nuclear Energy risks.

Without in any way restricting the operation of paragraph (1) of this clause, this Reinsurance does not cover any loss or liability accruing to the Reassured, directly or indirectly and whether as Insurer or Reinsurer, from any insurance against Physical Damage (including business interruption or consequential loss arising out of such Physical Damage) to:

Nuclear reactor power plants including all auxiliary property on the site, or

Any other nuclear reactor installation, including laboratories handling radioactive materials in connection with reactor installations, and “critical facilities” as such, or

Installations for fabricating complete fuel elements or for processing substantial quantities of “special nuclear material”, and for reprocessing, salvaging, chemically separating, storing or disposing of “spent” nuclear fuel or waste materials, or

Installations other than those listed in paragraph (2) III above using substantial quantities of radioactive isotopes or other products of nuclear fission.

Without in any way restricting the operations of paragraphs (1) and (2) hereof, this Reinsurance does not cover any loss or liability by radioactive contamination accruing to the Reassured, directly or indirectly, and whether as Insurer or Reinsurer, from any insurance on property which is on the same site as a nuclear reactor power plant or other nuclear installation and which normally would be insured therewith except that this paragraph (3) shall not operate:

where Reassured does not have knowledge of such nuclear reactor power plant or nuclear installation, or

where said insurance contains a provision excluding coverage for damage to property caused by or resulting from radioactive contamination, however caused. However on and after 1st January 1960 this sub-paragraph (b) shall only apply provided the said radioactive contamination exclusion provision has been approved by the Governmental Authority having jurisdiction thereof.

Without in any way restricting the operations of paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) hereof, this Reinsurance does not cover any loss or liability by radioactive contamination accruing to the Reassured, directly or indirectly, and whether as Insurer or Reinsurer, when such radioactive contamination is a named hazard specifically insured against.

It is understood and agreed that this clause shall not extend to risks using radioactive isotopes in any form where the nuclear exposure is not considered by the Reassured to be the primary hazard.

The term “special nuclear material” shall have the meaning given it in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or by any law amendatory thereof.

Reassured to be sole judge of what constitutes:

substantial quantities, and

the extent of installation, plant or site.

all policies issued by the Reassured on or before 31st December 1957 shall be free from the application of the other provisions of this Clause until expiry date or 31st December 1960 whichever first occurs whereupon all the provisions of this Clause shall apply.

with respect to any risk located in Canada policies issued by the Reassured on or before 31st December 1958 shall be free from the application of the other provisions of this Clause until expiry date or 31st December 1960 whichever first occurs whereupon all the provisions of this Clause shall apply.

Wherever used herein the terms:

shall be understood to mean “Company”, “Reinsured”, “Reassured” or whatever other term is used in the attached reinsurance document to designate the reinsured company or companies.

shall be understood to mean “Reinsurers”, “Underwriters” or whatever other term is used in the attached reinsurance document to designate the reinsurer or reinsurers.