[MR] [Announcements] Announcement from the Board-Law Suit Issues

[David Chessler]

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Subject: [Announcements] Announcement from the Board-Law Suit Issues
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:19:50 -0500

Note: The letter below was originally sent out on Wednesday, September
19, 2007 by the President at the time, Patrick Anderson. The Directors
have asked that this be re-posted for informational purposes. If you have
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From the Board of Directors and President:

As the Directors and Corporate Staff informed the membership of the SCA in
April of this year, the SCA, Inc. has been named in two civil suits based
on alleged sexual misconduct of an adult toward minors. Unfortunately,
the individual accused of the misconduct was a member of the SCA. The SCA
did not sanction the alleged misconduct, had no prior knowledge of the
misconduct, and had never received any complaints concerning the adult
involved prior to his arrest. The adult involved has since been subject to
absolute banishment from the SCA.

As an update, the Director's and Corporate Staff want to inform the
membership that the SCA, Inc.'s insurance company has denied coverage for
both suits (based on a child abuse exclusion in the policy, which is a
normal exclusion in corporate insurance policies). We further wish to
inform the membership that the insurance company has filed a
lawsuit against the SCA, Inc. to enforce the exclusion. This action is
normal in a case such as this. The loss of coverage applies only to the
above mentioned civil suits and does not affect the SCA's insurance
coverage for other activities. The Directors and Corporate Staff cannot
comment further on the coverage action, or on any other pending legal
action. However, we will continue to update the membership of the SCA as
appropriate.



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