[Moo] FW: [MR] Fwd: [Announcements] Announcement from the Board-Law SuitIssues

[Shannon D. Combs-Bennett]

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Subject: [MR] Fwd: [Announcements] Announcement from the Board-Law SuitIssues

For those of you who were wondering what the legal issues were that have led
to the increase in membership fees, this was reposted late yesterday...

Kiri

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From: Leslie Luther-Fulton <janefalada at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:19 PM
Subject: [Announcements] Announcement from the Board-Law Suit Issues
To: sca Announcements <announcements at sca.org>


 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 any
questions or comments, please feel free to forward those.  Just remember
that comments should be placed into the body of your post, and not as an
attachment, as attachments are scrubbed.

To: announcements at sca.org

>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.

Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to:
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas,  CA 95036

You may also email comments at lists.sca.org.

This announcement is an official informational release by the Society for
Creative Anachronism , Inc.  Permission is granted to reproduce this
announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic mailing
lists.

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