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EX-10.106

Exhibit 10.106

ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY

LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

Restated Effective January 1, 2009

SECTION 1.  GENERAL

          1.1      Purpose. The purposes of the Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) are:
(a) to enhance the growth and profitability of Erie Indemnity Company, a Pennsylvania business
corporation (the “Company”), and its subsidiaries and affiliates, including Erie Family
Life Insurance Company, and the Erie Insurance Exchange (collectively, the “Erie Insurance
Group”) by providing the incentive of long-term rewards to key employees who are capable of
having a significant impact on the performance of the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates;
(b) to attract and retain employees of outstanding competence and ability; and (c) to further align
the interests of such employees with those of the shareholders of the Company.

          1.2      Administration of the Plan. The Plan shall be administered by the Executive
Compensation and Development Committee (the “Committee”) of the Company’s Board of
Directors (the “Board”) or other committee appointed by the Board, which shall be comprised
of not less than two members of the Board, each of whom at the time of appointment to the Committee
and at all times during service as a member of the Committee shall be both (1) a “non-employee
director” as then defined under Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “Exchange Act”), or any successor rule and (2) an “outside director” as then defined
in the regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
“Code”), or any successor provision. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee
shall have sole and complete authority to: (i) select Participants after receiving the
recommendations of the management of the Company; (ii) determine the number of Restricted
Performance Shares, as described in Section 2 subject to each grant; (iii) determine the time or
times when grants are to be made or are to be effective, including the Performance Period for each
grant; (iv) determine the terms and conditions, including the Performance Goals, subject to which
grants may be made; (v) extend the term of any grant; (vi) prescribe the form or forms of the
instruments evidencing any grants made hereunder, provided that such forms are consistent with the
Plan; (vii) adopt, amend, and rescind such rules and regulations as, in its opinion, may be
advisable for the administration of the Plan; (viii) construe and interpret the Plan and all rules,
regulations, and instruments utilized thereunder; and (ix) make all determinations deemed advisable
or necessary for the administration of the Plan. All determinations by the Committee shall be
final and binding.

          1.3      Eligibility and Participation. Participation in the Plan shall be limited to
officers (who may also be members of the Board) and other salaried key employees of the Company and
its subsidiaries and affiliates as identified by the Committee to participate in the Plan.
Employees who are granted awards under the Plan are referred to herein as “Participants”.

          1.4      Shares Available. The aggregate net number of shares of Class A (non-voting)
Common Stock of the Company (the “Common Stock”) which may be paid and as to which grants
of Restricted Performance Shares may be made under the Plan (counting all grants from the Plan’s
effective date) is 1,000,000 shares, subject to adjustment and substitution as set forth in
Section 3. The Company or its agent shall repurchase outstanding shares of Common Stock in order
to satisfy the Company’s obligation under the Plan to pay awards in shares of Common Stock. If
shares of Common Stock are forfeited to the Company pursuant to the restrictions applicable to
Restricted Performance Shares or are withheld or delivered to the Company in satisfaction of a tax
withholding obligation, the shares so forfeited, withheld or delivered shall again be available for
purposes of the Plan.

          1.5      New Participants. Except as provided in this Section 1.5, an employee who is not
a Participant as of the first day of a Performance Period shall not become a Participant for that
Performance Period. New employees
of the Company or its subsidiaries and affiliates hired during a Performance Period,
and
employees promoted during the Performance Period who were not eligible to participate in the Plan
at the beginning of the Performance Period,

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may, as determined by the Committee in its sole
discretion, become a Participant during a Performance Period and participate in the Plan for such
Performance Period on a pro-rata basis (based on the number of days in the Performance Period that
such employee is an employee who is deemed eligible to participate in the Plan); provided, that if
the new or promoted employee is a covered employee (as such term is defined under Section 162(m) of
the Code or any successor section thereto and the regulations thereunder), then the employee shall
not be eligible to participate in the Plan unless he or she becomes a Participant effective not
later than 90 days after the beginning of the Performance Period.

SECTION 2.   RESTRICTED PERFORMANCE SHARES

          2.1      Restricted Performance Shares. The Committee is authorized to grant Restricted
Performance Shares to Participants on the following terms and conditions:

           (i)      Right to Payment of Shares. Restricted Performance Shares shall represent a right
to receive shares of Common Stock based on the achievement, or the level of achievement,
during a specified Performance Period of one or more Performance Goals established by the
Committee at the time of the award.

           (ii)      Terms of Restricted Performance Shares. At the time Restricted Performance Shares
are granted, the Committee shall cause to be set forth in the agreement covering such award
or otherwise in writing (1) the Performance Goals applicable to the award, the weighting of
such goals, and the Performance Period during which the achievement of the Performance Goals
shall be measured, (2) the number of shares of Common Stock which may be earned by the
Participant based on the achievement, or the level of achievement, of the Performance Goals
or the formula by which such amount shall be determined and (3) such other terms and
conditions applicable to the award as the Committee may, in its discretion, determine to
include therein. The terms so established by the Committee shall be objective such that a
third party having knowledge of the relevant facts could determine whether or not any
Performance Goal has been achieved, or the extent of such achievement, and the amount, if
any, which has been earned by the Participant based on such performance.

           (iii)      Performance Goals. “Performance Goals” shall mean one or more preestablished,
objective measures of performance during a specified “Performance Period”, selected
by the Committee in its discretion. Performance Goals may be based upon one or more of the
following objective performance measures and expressed in either, or a combination of,
absolute or relative values: (i) adjusted combined ratio of property and casualty insurance
operations of Erie Insurance Group, (ii) growth in direct written premiums of Erie Insurance
Group, (iii) the statutory or GAAP combined ratio, loss ratio, expense ratio or dividend
ratio of the property and casualty insurance operations of the Erie Insurance Group, (iv)
net income (including net income before or after taxes and net income before interest,
taxes, depreciation and amortization), net income per share and net income per share growth
rate, (v) operating revenue, net premiums written or net premiums earned, (vi) operating
expenses, cost of management operations or underwriting expenses, (vii) cash flow, (viii)
return on capital, shareholders’ equity, assets or investments, (ix) stock price, (x) market
share or (xi) gross margins. Performance measures may be based on the performance of the
Erie Insurance Group, the Company or a subsidiary or subsidiaries or affiliate of the
Company, a division, department, business unit or other portion thereof, a product line or
products, or any combination the foregoing and/or upon a comparison of such performance with
the performance of a peer group of corporations or other measure selected or defined by the
Committee at the time of making the award of Restricted Performance Shares. The Committee
may in its discretion also determine to use other objective performance measures as
Performance Goals.

           (iv)      Committee Certification. Following completion of the applicable Performance
Period, and prior to any payment of shares of Common Stock to the Participant for Restricted
Performance Shares, the Committee shall determine, in accordance with the terms of the
Restricted Performance Shares, and certify in writing whether the applicable Performance
Goal or Goals were achieved, or the level of such achievement, and the number of shares, if
any, earned by the Participant based upon such performance. For
this purpose, approved minutes of the meeting of the Committee at which certification
is made shall be sufficient to satisfy the requirement of a written certification.

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           (v)      Maximum Individual Payments. The maximum number of shares of Common Stock which
may be earned under the Plan by any single Participant during any one calendar year shall be
limited to 250,000 shares. The limitation in the preceding sentence shall be interpreted
and applied in a manner consistent with Section 162(m) of the Code.

           (vi)      Termination of Employment.

	 	(a)	 	Death, Disability or Normal or Early
Retirement. If a Participant ceases to be an employee of the Company,
its subsidiaries and affiliates prior to the end of a Performance
Period by reason of death, disability (meaning total and permanent
disability within the meaning of Section 22(e)(3) of the Code) or
Normal or Early Retirement (as defined below), the Participant may
receive all or such portion of his or her award as may be determined by
the Committee in its sole discretion to have been earned by the
Participant; provided that the Participant shall not receive less than
the total number of shares of Common Stock earned pursuant to such
Restricted Performance Shares held by such Participant based upon
performance during the reduced Performance Period which is deemed to
end, for the purposes of paragraphs (iv), (vi), and (vii) of this
Section 2.1, on the last day of the calendar year in which such
termination of employment occurs. For the purposes of this Plan,
“Normal Retirement” means cessation of employment upon or after
attainment of age 65, and “Early Retirement” means cessation of
employment upon or after attainment of age 55 and completion of 15
years of Credited Service (as defined under the Erie Insurance Group
Retirement Plan for Employees).
	 	(b)	 	Other Terminations. If a Participant ceases to
be an employee of the Company, its subsidiaries and affiliates prior to
the end of a Performance Period for any reason other than death,
disability or Normal or Early Retirement as described in subsection
(a), above, the Participant may receive all or such portion of his or
her award as may be determined by the Committee in its sole discretion;
provided, that a Participant who is terminated for cause (as defined in
such employee’s employment agreement with the Company or its subsidiary
or affiliate, if no such agreement exists, as defined by the Committee)
shall not be entitled to receive payment of any award for any
Performance Period.

           (vii)      Payment. The Company shall pay to the Participant the number of shares of Common
Stock earned pursuant to an award of Restricted Performance Shares held by the Participant
for a Performance Period in the first calendar year beginning after the end of that
Performance Period, as promptly as reasonably practicable following the Committee’s
determination and certification as set forth in Section 2.1(iv) (the “Payment
Date”).

           (viii)      Delayed Payment Date For Specified Employee. If, pursuant to Section
2.1(vi)(a), the Performance Period for a Participant’s award is reduced so that the Payment
Date for the Participant’s award would occur in a calendar year earlier than the year in
which it would have occurred had the Performance Period not been reduced, then the Payment
Date for the award may not be earlier than the date that is six months after the
Participant’s separation from service (or, if earlier, the Participant’s death). “Specified
employee” means, with respect to the relevant 12-month period beginning on an April 1 and
during which the Company remains publicly traded, a Participant who was a “key employee”
within the meaning of Section 416(i) of the Code, without regard to Section 416(i)(5), at
any time during the calendar year preceding the applicable April 1. For the purpose of
determining whether a Participant is a specified employee, the compensation to be used is
“Test Compensation” as defined in the Erie Insurance Group Employee Savings Plan.

SECTION 3.   ADJUSTMENT PROVISIONS

          3.1      Adjustments Generally. If a dividend or other distribution shall be declared upon
the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, the number of shares of Common Stock then
subject to any outstanding Restricted Performance Shares, the number of shares of Common Stock
which may be issued under the Plan but not then subject to outstanding Restricted Performance
Shares and the maximum number of shares as to which

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Restricted Performance Shares may be granted
and as to which shares may be awarded under Sections 1.4 and 2.1(v), shall be adjusted by adding
thereto the number of shares of Common Stock which would have been distributable thereon if such
shares had been outstanding on the date fixed for determining the shareholders entitled to receive
such stock dividend or distribution.

          3.2      Recapitalizations, Mergers, Etc. If the outstanding shares of Common Stock shall
be changed into or exchangeable for a different number or kind of shares of stock or other
securities of the Company or another corporation, or cash or other property, whether through
reorganization, reclassification, recapitalization, stock split-up, combination of shares, merger
or consolidation, then there shall be substituted for each share of Common Stock subject to any
then outstanding Restricted Performance Share, and for each share of Common Stock which may be
issued under the Plan but which is not then subject to any outstanding Restricted Performance
Share, the number and kind of shares of stock or other securities (and in the case of outstanding
Restricted Performance Share, the cash or other property) into which each outstanding share of the
Common Stock shall be so changed or for which each such share shall be exchangeable.

          3.3      Spin-Offs, Liquidations, Etc. If the outstanding shares of the Common Stock shall
be changed in value by reason of any spin-off, split-off or split-up, or dividend in partial
liquidation, dividend in property other than cash, or extraordinary distribution to shareholders of
the Common Stock, the Committee shall make any adjustments to any then outstanding Restricted
Performance Share which it determines are equitably required to prevent dilution or enlargement of
the rights of awardees which would otherwise result from any such transaction.

          3.4      No Fractional Shares. No adjustment or substitution provided for in this Section
3.1 shall require the Company to pay or sell a fraction of a share of Common Stock or other
security. Accordingly, all fractional shares of Common Stock or other securities which result from
any such adjustment or substitution shall be eliminated and not carried forward to any subsequent
adjustment or substitution.

SECTION 4.   AMENDMENTS TO AND TERMINATION OF THE PLAN

          4.1      Amendment and Termination. The Board may amend, alter, suspend, discontinue or
terminate the Plan without the consent of shareholders or Participants, except that, without the
approval of the shareholders of the Company, no amendment, alteration, suspension, discontinuation
or termination shall be made if shareholder approval is required by any federal or state law or
regulation or by the rules of any stock exchange on which the shares may then be listed, or if the
amendment, alteration or other change materially increases the benefits accruing to Participants,
increases the number of shares available under the Plan or modifies the requirements for
participation under the Plan, or if the Board in its discretion determines that obtaining such
shareholder approval is for any reason advisable; provided, however, that except as provided in
Section 5.15, without the consent of the Participant, no amendment, alteration, suspension,
discontinuation or termination of the Plan may materially and adversely affect the rights of such
Participant under any award theretofore granted to him. The Committee may, consistent with the
terms of the Plan, waive any conditions or rights under, amend any terms of, or amend, alter,
suspend, discontinue or terminate, any award theretofore granted, prospectively or retrospectively;
provided, however, that except as provided in Section 5.15, without the consent of a Participant,
no amendment, alteration, suspension, discontinuation or termination of any award may materially
and adversely affect the rights of such Participant under any award theretofore granted to him.

          4.2      Restrictions on Acceleration of Payment Date; Deferrals; Delay of Payment to Specified
Employee.

          (i)      Acceleration or Deferral. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of Section 4.1,
an action by the Board or Committee under Section 4.1 shall not accelerate or defer a
Payment Date except as follows:

          (a)      An action may accelerate the payment of all or part of an award upon the
following events: the termination and liquidation of the Plan or any other event
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe in generally applicable guidance
under the Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code, provided, in any case, that the
terms and conditions of the acceleration would not cause the Plan to fail to meet
the requirements of Section 409A for the deferral (until payment) of the inclusion
of awards in gross income.

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          (b)      An action may defer a Payment Date for all or a part of an award under the
following circumstances:

          (1)      The Board or Committee reasonably anticipates that, if an award
were to be paid as scheduled, the Company’s deduction with respect to such
payment would not be permitted under Section 162(m) of the Code; provided
such scheduled payment is then made during the Participant’s first taxable
year in which the Board or Committee reasonably anticipates that the
Company’s deduction will not be barred by application of Section 162(m) of
the Code.

          (2)      The Board or Committee reasonably anticipates that the payment of
an award as scheduled will violate federal securities laws or other
applicable law; provided that the scheduled payment is then made at the
earliest date on which the Board or Committee reasonably determines that
making the scheduled payment will not cause such a violation.

          (3)      Such other events or conditions as the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue may prescribe in generally applicable guidance that the Board or
Committee, in its discretion, chooses to apply under the Plan; provided,
however, that a Participant shall have no direct or indirect election as to
the application of such events or conditions to his or her individual
circumstances, and further provided, in any case under this paragraph (b),
that the terms and conditions of the deferral would not cause the Plan to
fail to meet the requirements of Section 409A for the deferral (until
payment) of the inclusion of awards in gross income.

                   (ii)      Delay of Payment to Specified Employee. If an award is payable to a Participant
on account of separation from service (within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code), and
the Participant is a specified employee (as defined in Section 2.1(viii)), the payment may
not be made before the date that is six months after the Participant’s separation from
service (or, if earlier, the Participant’s death).

SECTION 5.   MISCELLANEOUS

          5.1      Designation of Beneficiary. A Participant may designate, in a writing delivered
to the Company before his death, a person or persons to receive, in the event of his death, any
rights to which he would be entitled under the Plan. Such designation may be made, revoked or
changed by the Participant at any time before the earlier of death or receipt of any unpaid
amounts, but such designation of beneficiary will not be effective and supersede all prior
designations until it is received and acknowledged by the Committee or its delegate. If the
Committee has any doubt as to the proper beneficiary to receive payments hereunder, the Committee
shall have the right to withhold such payments until the matter is finally adjudicated. However,
any payment made in good faith shall fully discharge the Committee, the Company, its subsidiaries,
affiliates and the Board from all further obligations with respect to that payment.

          5.2      No Right to Employment. Nothing contained in the Plan or any award agreement
shall confer, and no grant of an award shall be construed as conferring, upon any Participant any
right to continue in the employ of the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliates or to interfere in
any way with the right of the Company to terminate his employment at any time or increase or
decrease his compensation from the rate in existence at the time of granting of an award.

          5.3      Nontransferability. A Participant’s rights under the Plan, including the right to
any shares payable, may not be assigned, pledged, or otherwise transferred except, in the event of
a Participant’s death, to his designated beneficiary or, in the absence of such a designation, by
will or the laws of descent and distribution.

          5.4      Relationship to Other Benefits. No payment under the Plan shall be taken into
account in determining any benefits under any retirement, group insurance, or other employee
benefit plan of the Company. The Plan shall not preclude the shareholders of the Company, the
Board or any committee thereof, or the Company from authorizing or approving other employee benefit
plans or forms or incentive compensation, nor shall it limit or prevent the continued operation of
other incentive compensation plans or other employee benefit plans of the Company or the
participation in any such plans by Participants in the Plan.

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          5.5      Withholding. To the extent required by applicable Federal, state, local or
foreign law, the Participant or his successor shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Company,
in its discretion, for the satisfaction of any withholding tax obligations that arise in connection
with an award. The Company shall not be required to pay any shares of Common Stock or other
payment under the Plan until such obligations are satisfied. The Company is authorized to withhold
from any award granted or any payment due under the Plan, including from a distribution of shares
of Common Stock, amounts of withholding taxes due with respect to an award, or any payment
thereunder, and to take such other action as the Committee may deem necessary or advisable to
enable the Company and Participants to satisfy obligations for the payment of such taxes. This
authority shall include authority to withhold or receive previously owned shares to satisfy such
tax withholding obligations, provided that shares withheld or delivered to satisfy such obligations
in excess of the minimum required statutory withholding rate must have been held for at least six
months to the extent that the Committee so requires.

          5.6      Unfunded Status of Awards; Creation of Trusts. The Plan is intended to constitute
an “unfunded” plan for incentive and deferred compensation. With respect to any payments not yet
made to a Participant pursuant to an award, nothing contained in the Plan or any award agreement
shall give any such Participant any rights that are greater than those of a general unsecured
creditor of the Company; provided, however, that the Committee may authorize the creation of trusts
or make other arrangements to meet the Company’s obligations under the Plan to deliver shares
pursuant to any award, which trusts or other arrangements shall be consistent with the “unfunded”
status of the Plan.

          5.7      Award Agreements. An award shall be evidenced by a written agreement entered into
between the Company or a participating entity and the Participant, setting forth the terms of such
award granted to the Participant under this Plan. To the extent an award agreement, whether issued
before 2009 or after 2008, conflicts with the terms of this Plan as restated, the terms of this
Plan shall supersede the terms of the award agreement.

          5.8      Expenses. The expenses of administering the Plan shall be borne by the Company.

          5.9      Indemnification. Service on the Committee shall constitute service as a member of
the Board so that members of the Committee shall be entitled to indemnification and reimbursement
as directors of the Company pursuant to its Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, or resolutions of
its Board or shareholders.

          5.10      Tax Litigation. The Company shall have the right to contest, at its expense, any
tax ruling or decision, administrative or judicial, on any issue that is related to the Plan and
that the Company believes to be important to Participants in the Plan and to conduct any such
contest or any litigation arising therefrom to a final decision.

          5.11      No Right to Awards; No Shareholder Rights. No Participant or employee shall have
any claim to be granted any award under the Plan, and there is no obligation for uniformity of
treatment of Participants and employees. No award shall confer on any Participant any of the
rights of a shareholder of the Company unless and until shares of Common Stock are in fact paid to
such Participant in connection with such award.

          5.12      No Fractional Shares. No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be paid or
delivered pursuant to the Plan or any award. In the event that any award would result in the
issuance of a fractional share of Common Stock, the fractional share shall be rounded up to the
next whole share.

          5.13      Governing Law and Construction. The validity, interpretation, construction and
effect of the Plan and any rules and regulations relating to the Plan shall be governed by the laws
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (without regard to the conflicts of laws thereof). The
provisions of the Plan and award agreements shall be construed and administered in accordance with
the requirements of Section 409A of the Code to prevent the inclusion of awards in gross income
before the time of payment. As used in Section 2.1(vi), the terms “termination of employment” and
“ceases to be an employee” shall be construed to refer to a separation from service within the
meaning of Section 409A of the Code. Titles of Sections of the Plan are for convenience of
reference only and are not to be taken into account when construing and interpreting the provisions
of the Plan. Capitalized terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein unless the context
expressly otherwise requires.

          5.14      Severability. If any provision of the Plan or any award is or becomes or is
deemed invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, or would disqualify the Plan or any
award under any law deemed applicable by the Committee, such provision shall be construed or deemed
amended to conform to applicable laws or if it cannot be construed or deemed amended without, in
the determination of the Committee, materially altering the intent of the Plan or award, it shall
be deleted and the remainder of the Plan or award shall remain in full force and effect; provided,
however, that, unless otherwise determined by the Committee, the provision shall not be construed
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deemed amended or deleted with respect to any Participant whose rights and obligations under the
Plan are not subject to the law of such jurisdiction or the law deemed applicable by the Committee.

          5.15      Certain Restrictions Under Rule 16b-3. Upon the effectiveness of any amendment
to Rule 16b-3, this Plan and any award agreement for an outstanding award held by a Participant
then subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act shall be deemed to be amended, without further
action on the part of the Committee, the Board or the Participant, to the extent necessary for
awards under the Plan or such award agreement to qualify for the exemption provided by Rule 16b-3,
as so amended, except to the extent any such amendment requires shareholder approval.

          5.16      Registration and Listing Compliance. No award shall be paid and no shares or
other securities shall be distributed with respect to any award in a transaction subject to the
registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities law
and no award shall confer upon any Participant rights to such payment or distribution, until such
laws shall have been complied with in all material respects. If such compliance requires a delay
in a Payment Date, payment shall be made on the earliest date on which such laws have been complied
with in all material respects. Before the Payment Date of an award and the distribution of any
shares or other securities subject to a listing requirement under any listing agreement between the
Company and any national securities exchange, the contractual obligations of the Company shall have
been complied with in all material respects. Except to the extent required by the terms of an
award agreement or another contract between the Company and the Participant, neither the grant of
any award nor anything else contained herein shall obligate the Company to take any action to
comply with any requirements of any such securities laws or contractual obligations relating to the
registration (or exemption therefrom) or listing of any shares or other securities.

          5.17      Stock Certificates. All certificates for shares delivered under the terms of the
Plan shall be subject to such stop-transfer orders and other restrictions as the Committee may deem
advisable under federal or state securities laws, rules and regulations thereunder, and the rules
of any national securities exchange or automated quotation system on which shares of Common Stock
are listed or quoted. The Committee may cause a legend or legends to be placed on any such
certificates to make appropriate reference to such restrictions or any other restrictions or
limitations that may be applicable to shares. In addition, during any period in which awards or
shares are subject to restrictions or limitations under the terms of the Plan or any award
agreement, or during any period during which delivery or receipt of an award or shares has been
deferred by the Committee or a Participant, the Committee may require any Participant to enter into
an agreement providing that certificates representing shares payable or paid pursuant to an award
shall remain in the physical custody of the Company or such other person as the Committee may
designate.

SECTION 6.   EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM OF THE PLAN

          6.1      Effective Date. This document is an amendment and restatement of the Plan. The
original Plan was approved by shareholders of the Company in 2004, with an effective date of March
2, 2004. This amendment and restatement shall be effective January 1, 2009. The Plan as restated
will remain in effect until amended or terminated by the Board, provided that no Restricted
Performance Shares may be awarded subsequent to the 2009 Annual Meeting of shareholders of the
Company, absent additional shareholder approval after 2008.

*     *      *

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Board of Directors of the Company has caused this document to be
executed this 31st day of December, 2008.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	by
	 	 /s/ James J. Tanous
 

       James J. Tanous
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	       Executive Vice President,	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	           Secretary and General Counsel	 	 

199EX-10.107

Exhibit 10.107

ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY

ANNUAL INCENTIVE PLAN

          Section 1. Purpose. The purpose of the Annual Incentive Plan (the
“Plan”) of Erie Indemnity Company (the “Company”) is to advance the best interests
of the Erie Insurance Group—consisting of the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates,
including Erie Family Life Insurance Company, and the Erie Insurance Exchange (collectively, the
“Erie Insurance Group”)—and thereby enhance shareholder value of the Company by providing
incentives in the form of annual cash bonus awards to certain management employees of the Company
and other Participating Entities upon the attainment of performance goals established in accordance
with the Plan.

          Section 2. Effective Date and Performance Periods. This document is an
amendment and restatement of the Plan. The original Plan was approved by shareholders of the
Company in 2004, with an effective date of March 2, 2004. This amendment and restatement shall be
effective January 1, 2009. The Plan will remain in effect from year to year (each calendar year
shall be referred to herein as a “Plan Year”) until formally amended or terminated in
writing by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), provided that, absent additional
shareholder approval after 2008, no awards may be granted under the Plan after the Company’s Annual
Meeting of Shareholders in 2009. There shall be one year performance periods (each, a
“Performance Period”) under the Plan. A new Performance Period shall commence on the first
day of each Plan Year and end on December 31 of such Plan Year.

          Section 3. Administration of the Plan.

          Section 3.01. General. The Plan shall be administered by the Executive
Compensation and Development Committee (the “Committee”) of the Board or other committee
appointed by the Board, which shall be comprised solely of two or more “outside directors” as then
defined in the regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the “Code”), or any successor provision. The Committee shall interpret the Plan and
prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures in connection with the operations of the Plan as
it shall deem to be necessary and advisable for the administration of the Plan consistent with the
purposes of the Plan. The Committee’s determinations under the Plan need not be uniform and may be
made by it selectively among persons who receive, or are eligible to receive, awards under the
Plan, whether or not such persons are similarly situated. For each Plan Year, the Committee shall
(i) designate the Participants eligible to receive awards under the Plan, (ii) determine the
Company Performance Goals and the Company Incentive Targets for such Participants, (iii) determine
the Individual Performance Goals and Individual Incentive Targets for eligible Participants, and
(iv) make such other determinations as may be required or permitted by the Plan. Prior to payment
of any Company Incentive Award or Individual Incentive Award for any Plan Year, the Committee shall
certify that the Company Performance Goals and Individual Performance Goals (and other material
terms of any award) have been achieved. For purposes of the required certification, approved
minutes of the meeting of the Committee at which the certification is made shall be sufficient to
satisfy the requirement of a written certification.

          Section 3.02. Section 162(m). Company Incentive Awards under this Plan are
intended to constitute “qualified performance-based compensation” under Section 162(m) of the Code
(or any successor section thereto) and the regulations thereunder with respect to Participants who
are or who are anticipated to be covered employees, as such term is defined in Section 162(m) of
the Code (or any successor section thereto) for any Plan Year (each, a “Covered Employee”) and the
Plan shall be administered and interpreted consistently with said Section 162(m) with respect to
awards to Covered Employees.

          Section 4. Eligibility, Termination, New Participants.

               Section 4.01. Eligibility. Any key employee of the Company or any
corporation, partnership or other organization of which the Company owns or controls, directly or
indirectly, not less than 50% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock or other
equity interests (each, a “Participating Entity”) who the Committee determines, in its sole
discretion, has a significant affect on the operations and/or results of the Company shall be
eligible to participate in the Plan (each, a “Participant”); provided, that the Company’s
Chief Executive Officer and the Executive Vice Presidents of the Company shall not be eligible to
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Awards. Participants in the Plan for any Plan Year shall be deemed ineligible to participate
in the Erie Insurance Group Employee Profit Sharing Bonus Plan (the “Profit Sharing Plan”)
for such Plan Year. No employee of the Company or any Participating Entity shall have a right (a)
to be selected to participate in the Plan for any Plan Year, or (b) having once been selected for a
Plan Year, to (i) be selected to participate again in the future or (ii) continue as an employee of
the Company or any Participating Entity.

               Section 4.02. Termination of Employment. If the active employment of a
Participant shall be terminated before the Payment Date of an award for any Plan Year for any
reason, such Participant may receive all or such portion of his or her award as may be determined
by the Committee in its sole discretion; provided, that if a Participant ceases to be an employee
of the Company or a Participating Entity prior to the Payment Date of an award for any Plan Year by
reason of death, Disability (meaning total and permanent disability within the meaning of
Section 22(e)(3) of the Code), or Normal or Early Retirement (as defined below), the Participant
shall be entitled to payment of not less than a pro rata portion of such award, based on the number
of days such Participant was an employee during the Performance Period; and provided, further, that
a Participant who is terminated for cause (as defined in such employee’s employment agreement with
the Company or Participating Entity or, if no such agreement exists, as defined by the Committee)
shall not be entitled to receive payment of any award for the Plan Year. For the purposes of this
Plan, “Normal Retirement” means cessation of employment upon or after attainment of age 65, and
“Early Retirement” means cessation of employment upon or after attainment of age 55 and completion
of 15 years of Credited Service (as defined under the Erie Insurance Group Retirement Plan for
Employees).

               Section 4.03. New Participants. Except as provided in this Section 4.03, an
employee who is not a Participant as of the first day of a Performance Period shall not become a
Participant for that Performance Period. New employees of the Company or a Participating Entity
hired during a Performance Period, and employees promoted during the Performance Period who were
not eligible to participate in the Plan at the beginning of the Performance Period, may, as
determined by the Committee in its sole discretion, become a Participant during a Performance
Period and participate in the Plan for such Performance Period on a pro-rata basis (based on the
number of days in the Performance Period that such employee is an employee who is deemed eligible
to participate in the Plan); provided, that if the new or promoted employee is a Covered Employee
for the Plan Year, then the employee shall not be eligible to participate in the Plan unless he or
she becomes a Participant effective not later than 90 days after the beginning of the Performance
Period. An employee who becomes a Participant after the first day of a Performance Period shall
not be eligible to participate in the Profit Sharing Plan from the date the employee becomes a
Participant in the Plan; however, such Participant shall be entitled to a pro rata portion of the
benefit, if any, to which he or she otherwise would be entitled under the Profit Sharing Plan for
such Plan Year based on the number of days in the year prior to the date he or she became a
Participant in this Plan.

          Section 5. Company Incentive Targets, Company Incentive Awards, Company
Performance Measures, Company Performance Goals.

               Section 5.01. Company Incentive Targets. Each Participant under the Plan
shall be assigned a Company Incentive Target, which shall be expressed as a percentage of the
Participant’s annual rate of base salary in effect on December 31 of the Plan Year for which the
Company Incentive Target is being assigned, and which shall establish the amount of cash
compensation payable to the Participant upon attaining, in whole or in part, or exceeding, the
Company Performance Goals for a Performance Period (the “Company Incentive Target”). The
Company Incentive Targets shall be determined and approved by the Committee not later than 90 days
after the commencement of each Performance Period. At the time the Company Incentive Target is
established, the Committee shall establish the maximum Company Incentive Award that may be paid for
the Performance Period to Participants who are Covered Employees.

               Section 5.02. Company Incentive Awards. Company incentive awards are the
actual cash amounts earned by Participants during a Performance Period for attaining, in whole or
in part, or exceeding the Company Performance Goals for such Performance Period (“Company
Incentive Awards”); provided, however, that for Participants who are Covered Employees (a) no
Company Incentive Award may exceed the Participant’s Company Incentive Target established for the
actual level of achievement attained, and (b) payment of any Company Incentive Award under the Plan
shall be contingent upon the achievement of the Company Performance Goals.

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               Section 5.03. Company Performance Goals.

                    (a) Company Performance Goals. For each Performance Period, the Committee shall
establish specific, written, objective performance goals (the “Company Performance Goals”)
for each Participant, which may be based upon one or more of the following performance measures and
expressed in either, or a combination of, absolute values or rates of change: (i) the operating
ratio of the property and casualty insurance operations of the Erie Insurance Group (ii) direct
written premiums of the Erie Insurance Group, (iii) the statutory or GAAP combined ratio, loss
ratio, expense ratio or dividend ratio of the property and casualty insurance operations of the
Erie Insurance Group, (iv) net income (including net income before or after taxes and net income
before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), net income per share and net income per
share growth rate, (v) operating revenue, net premiums written or net premiums earned, (vi)
operating expenses, cost of management operations or underwriting expenses, (vii) cash flow, (viii)
return on capital, shareholders’ equity, assets or investments, (ix) stock price, (x) market share
or (xi) gross margins (“Company Performance Measures”). Company Performance Measures may
be based on the performance of the Erie Insurance Group, the Company or a subsidiary or
subsidiaries or affiliate of the Company, a division, department, business unit or other portion
thereof, a product line or products, or any combination of the foregoing and/or upon a comparison
of such performance with the performance of a peer group or other measure selected or defined by
the Committee at the time of assigning the Company Incentive Target. For Participants who are
Covered Employees, the Company Performance Goals shall be established for any Performance Period
not later than 90 days after the commencement of the Performance Period.

                    (b) Manner of Calculating Company Incentive Awards. When the Company Performance
Goals are established, the Committee shall also specify, in terms of an objective formula or
standard, the method for computing the amount of the Company Incentive Award if the Company
Performance Goal is attained, in whole or in part, or exceeded. If more than one Company
Performance Goal is established for any Performance Period, the Committee shall also specify the
weighting assigned to such Company Performance Goals. The Committee may, at the time the Company
Performance Goals are established, determine that unusual items or certain specified events or
occurrences, including changes in accounting standards or tax laws and the effects of
non-operational or extraordinary items as defined by generally accepted accounting principles,
shall be excluded from the calculation; provided that such determination does not cause the Company
Incentive Award for any Performance Period to fail to constitute “qualified performance-based
compensation” under Section 162(m) of the Code (or any successor section thereto) and the
regulations thereunder with respect to Participants who are Covered Employees.

               Section 5.04. Discretion. The Committee shall have no discretion to increase
any Company Incentive Target or Company Incentive Award that would otherwise be due upon attainment
of the Company Performance Goals, or otherwise modify any Company Performance Goals associated with
a Performance Period; provided, however, that solely with respect to Participants who are eligible
to receive Individual Incentive Awards under Section 6, the Committee may in its discretion reduce
or eliminate such Company Incentive Target or Company Incentive Award for a Performance Period.

               Section 5.05. Determination of Company Incentive Award. As promptly as
reasonably practicable following receipt of the information necessary for the calculation of any
Company Incentive Award, the Committee shall determine the amount of a Participant’s Company
Incentive Award for the Plan Year, if any, based on the level of attainment of the applicable
Company Performance Goals for the Performance Period in accordance with the terms of the award as
set forth in the Award Agreement and the other terms of the Plan. Such determination shall be
communicated to the Participant in writing. Prior to any payment of the Company Incentive Awards
hereunder, the Committee shall determine and certify in writing the extent to which the Company
Performance Goals and other material terms of the Plan and the applicable Award Agreement were
achieved.

               Section 5.06. Maximum Company Incentive Awards. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Plan, the maximum Company Incentive Award payable in cash to any one Participant
under the Plan with respect to any Performance Period shall be $3.0 million.

          Section 6. Individual Incentive Targets, Individual Incentive Awards and
Individual Performance Goals.

               Section 6.01. Individual Incentive Targets. Each Participant under the Plan
who is eligible to receive Individual Incentive Awards under this Section 6 shall be assigned an
individual incentive target, which shall be expressed as a percentage of the Participant’s annual
rate of base salary in effect on December 31 of the

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Plan Year for which the Individual Incentive Target is being assigned and which shall
establish the amount of cash compensation payable to the Participant upon attaining, in whole or in
part, or exceeding, the Individual Performance Goals for a Performance Period (an “Individual
Incentive Target”).

               Section 6.02. Individual Incentive Awards. Individual incentive awards
(“Individual Incentive Awards”) are the actual cash amounts earned by eligible Participants
during a Performance Period for attaining, in whole or in part, or exceeding the Individual
Performance Goals for such Performance Period.

               Section 6.03. Individual Performance Goals.

                    (a) Individual Performance Goals. For each Performance Period, the Committee shall
review and approve the individual performance goals for each eligible Participant as established
pursuant to the employee performance assessment program in effect from time to time and set forth
on the Participant’s individual performance assessment form for such Performance Period (the
“Individual Performance Goals”).

                    (b) Calculation. When the Individual Performance Goals are established, the Committee
shall also specify the method for computing the amount of the Individual Incentive Award if the
Individual Performance Goal is attained, in whole or in part, or exceeded by the Participant. If
more than one Individual Performance Goal is established for any Performance Period, the Committee
shall also specify the weighting assigned to such Individual Performance Goals. The Committee may
determine that unusual circumstances or certain specified events or occurrences, shall be excluded
from the calculation.

               Section 6.04. Discretion. The Committee shall have no discretion to increase
any Individual Incentive Target or Individual Incentive Award that would otherwise be due upon
attainment of the Individual Performance Goals, or otherwise modify any Individual Performance
Goals associated with a Performance Period; provided, however, that the Committee may in its
discretion reduce or eliminate Individual Incentive Targets or Individual Incentive Awards for a
Performance Period.

               Section 6.05. Determination of Individual Incentive Award. As promptly as
reasonably practicable following receipt of the information necessary for the calculation of any
Individual Incentive Award, the Committee shall determine the amount of a Participant’s Individual
Incentive Award for the Plan Year, if any, based on the level of attainment of the applicable
Individual Performance Goals for the Performance Period in accordance with the terms of the award
as set forth in the Award Agreement and the other terms of the Plan. Such determination shall be
communicated to the Participant in writing. Prior to any payment of the Individual Incentive
Awards hereunder, the Committee shall determine and certify in writing the extent to which the
Individual Performance Goals and other material terms of the Plan were achieved for each
Participant.

          Section 7. Payment to Participants.

               Section 7.01. Timing of Payment. Except as may be deferred pursuant to
Section 8.02, Company Incentive Awards and Individual Incentive Awards for a Performance Period
shall be paid to the Participant in the first calendar year beginning after the end of such
Performance Period, as promptly as reasonably practicable following the Committee’s determination
and certification of such awards (the “Payment Date”).

               Section 7.02. Beneficiary Designation. A Participant may file a completed
designation of beneficiary form with the Committee or its delegate in the form prescribed. Such
designation may be made, revoked or changed by the Participant at any time before the earlier of
death or receipt of any unpaid Company Incentive Awards or Individual Incentive Awards, but such
designation of beneficiary will not be effective and supersede all prior designations until it is
received and acknowledged in writing by the Committee or its delegate. If the Committee has any
doubt as to the proper beneficiary to receive payments hereunder, the Committee shall have the
right to withhold such payments until the matter is finally adjudicated. However, any payment made
in good faith shall fully discharge the Committee, the Company, its subsidiaries, Participating
Entities and the Board from all further obligations with respect to that payment.

               Section 7.03. Form of Payment. Payment of Company Incentive Awards and
Individual Incentive Awards shall be made in cash.

               Section 7.04. Tax Withholding. All Company Incentive Awards and Individual
Incentive Awards shall be subject to Federal income, FICA, and other tax withholding as required by
applicable law.

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          Section 8. Miscellaneous.

               Section 8.01. Non-alienation. Except as may be required by law, neither the
Participant nor any beneficiary shall have the right to, directly or indirectly, alienate, assign,
transfer, pledge, anticipate or encumber (except by reason of death) any amount that is or may be
payable hereunder, including in respect of any liability of a Participant or beneficiary for
alimony or other payments for the support of a spouse, former spouse, child or other dependent,
prior to actually being received by the Participant or beneficiary hereunder, nor shall the
Participant’s or beneficiary’s rights to benefit payments under the Plan be subject in any manner
to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, attachment, or
garnishment by creditors of the Participant or beneficiary or to the debts, contracts, liabilities,
engagements, or torts of any Participant or beneficiary, or transfer by operation of law in the
event of bankruptcy or insolvency of the Participant or any beneficiary, or any legal process.

               Section 8.02. Deferral. A Participant may elect to defer all or a portion
(in whole percentages) of his or her Company Incentive Award and Individual Incentive Award, in
accordance with the terms of a deferral agreement entered into between the Participant and the
Company pursuant to the Deferred Compensation Plan of Erie Indemnity Company (the “Deferred
Compensation Plan”). An election to defer must be made prior to the commencement of the Plan Year
to which the Incentive Award relates, except as otherwise allowed under the Deferred Compensation
Plan for a new employee. No amount in excess of the amount of the Company or Individual Incentive
Award deferred shall be payable to the Participant for such deferral, except as may be based upon
either an actual or deemed reasonable rate of interest or on one or more actual or deemed
investment vehicles as made available from time to time by the Company pursuant to the Deferred
Compensation Plan and elected by the Participant.

               Section 8.03. Amendment or Termination of this Plan. The Board shall have
the right to amend or terminate the Plan at any time, provided that any termination shall
automatically end the outstanding Performance Period and calculations shall be made with respect to
achievement of the Company and Individual Performance Goals for such Performance Periods for the
purpose of determining whether any partial Company or Individual Incentive Awards may be payable
under the Plan, and provided further that the conditions of Section 8.04 are satisfied. No
employee or Participant shall have any vested right to payment of any Company or Individual
Incentive Award hereunder prior to its payment. The Company shall notify affected employees in
writing of any amendment or termination of the Plan.

               Section 8.04. Restrictions on Acceleration of Payment Date; Deferrals; Delay of
Payment to Specified Employee.

               (a) Acceleration or Delay. The amendment or termination of the Plan shall not
accelerate or defer a Payment Date except as follows:

                    (1) The Board may accelerate the payment of all or part of an award upon the following events:
the termination and liquidation of the Plan or any other event the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue may prescribe in generally applicable guidance under the Section 409A of the Internal
Revenue Code, provided, in any event, that the terms and conditions of the acceleration would not
cause the Plan to fail to meet the requirements of Section 409A and of any generally applicable
guidance published by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue under Section 409(A) for the deferral
(until payment) of the inclusion of awards in gross income.

                    (2) The Board may defer a Payment Date for all or a part of an award under the following
circumstances:

                         (i) The Committee reasonably anticipates that, if an award were to be paid as scheduled, the
Company’s deduction with respect to such payment would not be permitted under Section 162(m) of the
Code; provided such scheduled payment is then made during the Participant’s first taxable year in
which the Committee reasonably anticipates that the Company’s deduction will not be barred by
application of Section 162(m) of the Code.

                         (ii) The Committee reasonably anticipates that the payment of an award as scheduled will
violate federal securities laws or other applicable law; provided that the scheduled payment is
then made at the earliest date on which the Committee reasonably determines that making the
scheduled payment will not cause such a violation.

                         (iii) Such other events or conditions as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe in
generally applicable guidance that the Board, in its discretion, chooses to apply under the Plan;
provided, however, that a Participant shall have no direct or indirect election as to the
application of such events or conditions to his or her individual circumstances.

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               (b) Delay of Payment to Specified Employee. If an award is payable to a Participant
on account of separation from service (within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code), and the
Participant is a specified employee (as defined below), the payment may not be made before the date
that is six months after the Participant’s separation from service (or, if earlier, the
Participant’s death). “Specified employee” means, with respect to the relevant 12-month period
beginning on an April 1 and during which the Company remains publicly traded, a Participant who was
a “key employee” within the meaning of Section 416(i) of the Code, without regard to Section
416(i)(5), at any time during the calendar year preceding the applicable April 1. For the purpose
of determining whether a Participant is a specified employee, the compensation to be used is “Test
Compensation” as defined in the Erie Insurance Group Employee Savings Plan.

               Section 8.05. Award Agreements. Company Incentive Awards and Individual
Incentive Awards shall be evidenced by a written agreement entered into between the Company or a
Participating Entity and the Participant, setting forth such award granted to the Participant under
this Plan (each, an “Award Agreement”). To the extent an Award Agreement, whether issued
before 2009 or after 2008, conflicts with the terms of this Plan as restated, the terms of this
Plan shall supersede the terms of the Award Agreement.

               Section 8.06. Limits of Liability. Any liability of the Company to any
Participant with respect to an award shall be based solely upon contractual obligations created by
the Plan and the Award Agreement. Neither the Company, nor any member of its Board or of the
Committee, nor any other person participating in any determination of any question under the Plan,
or in the interpretation, administration or application of the Plan, shall have any liability to
any party for any action taken or not taken in good faith under the Plan.

               Section 8.07. No Employment Rights. Neither the adoption of the Plan nor any
provision of the Plan shall be construed as a contract of employment between the Company or a
subsidiary or Participating Entity and any employee or Participant, or as a guarantee or right of
any employee or Participant to future or continued employment with the Company or a subsidiary or
Participating Entity, or as a limitation on the right of the Company or a subsidiary or
Participating Entity to discharge any of its employees. Specifically, designation as a Participant
does not create any rights, and no rights are created under the Plan, with respect to continued or
future employment or conditions of employment.

               Section 8.08. Illegal or Invalid Provision. In case any provision of the
Plan shall be held illegal or invalid for any reason, such illegal or invalid provision shall not
affect the remaining parts of the Plan, but the Plan shall be construed and enforced without regard
to such provisions.

               Section 8.09. Unsecured Creditor. The Plan constitutes a mere promise by the
Company to make benefit payments in the future. The Company’s obligations under the Plan shall be
unfunded and unsecured promises to pay. The Company shall not be obligated under any circumstance
to fund its financial obligations under the Plan. It may, in its discretion, set aside funds in a
trust or other vehicle, subject to the claims of its creditors, in order to assist it in meeting
its obligations under the Plan, if such arrangement will not cause the Plan to be considered a
funded deferred compensation plan. To the extent that any Participant or beneficiary or other
person acquires a right to receive payments under the Plan, such right shall be no greater than the
right of a general unsecured creditor of the Company and each Participant and beneficiary shall at
all times have the status of a general unsecured creditor of the Company.

               Section 8.10. Construction. The provisions of the Plan shall be construed,
administered and governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including its statute of
limitations provisions, but without reference to conflicts of law principles, and in accordance
with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code to prevent the inclusion of awards in gross
income before the time of payment. Titles of Sections of the Plan are for convenience of reference
only and are not to be taken into account when construing and interpreting the provisions of the
Plan. Capitalized terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein unless the context
expressly otherwise requires.

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*    *    *

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Board of Directors of the Company has caused this document to be
executed this 31st day of December, 2008.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	by
	 	 /s/ James J. Tanous
 

       James J. Tanous
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	       Executive Vice President,	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	           Secretary and General Counsel	 	 

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