[Ansteorra-announce] [Announcements] Announcement from the Board-lawsuit

[Patrick Anderson]

>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.

Thank you,
Patrick Anderson
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Patrick Anderson
President
Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.
president at sca.org
952-412-4112


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