Berkley Insurance Company

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Section 49 of the Insurance Act (Ontario), that Berkley Insurance Company, a joint stock company having its Canadian chief agency in Toronto, Ontario, Canada intends to apply to the Superintendent/CEO of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario for an insurance licence authorizing the company to transact property, accident and sickness, aircraft, automobile, boiler and machinery, credit, fidelity, hail, legal expense, liability, and surety classes of insurance in Ontario.

Dated at Toronto this 12th day of October, 2006

Berkley Insurance Company by its
solicitors Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(139-P319) 42, 43, 44