Notice of Special Meeting

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

OF COUNTRY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY® POLICYHOLDERS TO VOTE ON PROPOSED MERGER

Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors of COUNTRY Mutual Insurance Company (“COUNTRY Mutual”) held on September 23, 2015, it was determined that a merger of Middlesex Mutual Insurance Company (“Middlesex”), a Connecticut domiciled mutual insurance company, with and into COUNTRY Mutual, an Illinois domiciled mutual insurance company, is desirable, and the Board further determined to submit to a vote of policyholders the question of such merger in accordance with the terms approved and recommended by the Board. The Board of COUNTRY Mutual, by resolution, authorized the COUNTRY Mutual policyholder vote to occur at a special meeting of COUNTRY Mutual which will be held on the 20th day of April, at 1:15 p.m. CST at 1701 Towanda Avenue, Bloomington, IL to consider and vote on the proposed terms of the merger approved and recommended by the Boards as aforesaid and further to consider and act on any and all matters that may be brought before said meetings.

THEREFORE, pursuant to such actions and orders, notice is hereby given of such special meeting of policyholders to be held at the time and place aforesaid to consider and vote on the question of merger of said companies and the terms thereof. A Summary of the Plan of Merger is as follows:

Under the terms of the proposed Plan of Merger (“Plan”) between Middlesex and COUNTRY Mutual, Middlesex will merge with and into COUNTRY Mutual which shall be the surviving company. The Plan shall be contingent upon the transfer of Middlesex assets and liabilities to COUNTRY Mutual prior to the merger. The Plan further provides that COUNTRY Mutual shall possess all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers and franchises of a public as well as a private nature, of Middlesex on the Merger Effective Date. All property, real, personal, and mixed, and all debts due on whatever account, and every other interest of belonging to or due Middlesex, shall be deemed to be transferred to and vested in COUNTRY Mutual. COUNTRY Mutual shall be responsible and liable for all of the liabilities and obligations of Middlesex. The Plan also provides that the merger shall only be effective after the approval by the Board of Directors of each company, and only after the approval of two-thirds of the votes cast by voting policyholders of COUNTRY Mutual and Middlesex and the approval of the Director of Insurance of the State of Illinois, and for such other provisions as are appropriate to the effectuation of said merger.

Said vote on the merger of said companies and the terms thereof may, at the election of any policyholder not represented in person at the aforesaid annual meeting of the policyholders, be effected by proxy, in due form, submitted by said policyholder and subject to proof of authenticity by the company. The record date for determining policyholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the special policyholders’ meeting is February 29, 2016.

Dated this 29 day of February 2016.

COUNTRY Mutual Insurance Company

By: Richard L. Guebert, Jr.

Its President

Pub: March 1, March 8, March 15, 2016

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