On March 4, 2019, Gregory M. Shepard sent a letter to the EMC Insurance Group Inc.’s Todd A. Strother, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. In the letter, Gregory Shepard stated that on February 25, 2019, counsel for the special committee of independent members of the Board of Directors of the Company called his attorney to inform him that the Company had declined his request to join the Company’s board of directors. Gregory Shepard stated that it would like to speak to the special committee and their independent legal and financial advisors regarding the Company’s November 15, 2018 proposal letter from Chairman David J.W. Proctor.