Our programs for personal and commercial equine liability policies are designed to protect equestrian amateurs and professionals and their breeding, boarding, horse sales, training, and instructing activities. We also offer policies to cover independent equine events and annual policies for equine clubs and associations and their public event days.
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Congress is poised to take action following several high-profile sexual abuse cases involving coaches, doctors, and others in amateur and collegiate sports. A new federal law aiming to prevent sexual abuse in youth sports creates standards for all youth sport organizations, including programs offered by local leagues, churches, schools, camps, and non-profits. The Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act of 2017 includes requirements for prevention training, prevention policies, and mandatory reporting. Here is a brief overview of the new requirements that all youth sports organizations must take.
1. Mandatory Reporting Changes The Act expands the list of individuals required to report child sexual abuse. The list of mandatory reporters now includes any adult who is authorized to interact with a minor or amateur athlete at an amateur sports organization facility or event. For some organizations, the Act also requires all adults to immediately report suspicions of abuse to the US Center for Safe Sport and the appropriate law enforcement agencies, as determined by state and federal law.
Each state has a reporting statute related to child abuse and neglect. Some states require every adult to report suspicions of abuse and neglect while other states list categories of individuals or circumstances triggering a mandatory report. It is imperative that each youth sport organization understands the new federal obligations, as well as the respective state-specific obligations.
2. Prevention Training Requirements All amateur sports organizations are now required to provide consistent training on prevention and reporting of child abuse to all adult members who are in regular contact with amateur athletes who are minors. There is a fundamental distinction between 'prevention training' and 'abuse indicators' or 'abuse recognition' training: one is proactive, the others are reactive. Abuse indicators and recognition trainings provide signs, traits, behaviors, and indicators that may reveal a child has been abused. Prevention training provides information related to behaviors and circumstances (i.e., unsupervised one-on-one interaction) that may place a child at risk of abuse. Effective prevention training allows adults to see and recognize problematic behaviors before the child is abused.
3. Prevention Policies Requirements All amateur sports organizations are now required to establish prevention policies that include reasonable procedures to limit one-on-one interactions between an amateur athlete who is a minor and an adult without being in an observable and interruptible distance from another adult.
Available Resources to Help These changes present challenges for youth sports organizations that often rely on volunteers. It is important for youth sports organizations to understand these new requirements, take advantage of available resources, and take action to comply.
Our agency has resources and carriers that provide training for this specific requirement.
The collector car market was split in 2017. Hagerty’s list of the highest auction sale prices for American cars is evenly divided between massive, open-top prewar machines and lithe postwar sports cars. Here are five American cars that broke the million-dollar barrier last year.
5. 1948 Tucker 48, RM Sotheby’s Arizona: $1,347,500 (including premium) Hagerty Price Guide: $1,150,000–$2,000,000
With a focus on safety and efficiency, Preston Tucker’s quirky three-eyed creation was ahead of its time. The fact that only 51 Tucker 48s were built makes them rare, but the constant production changes during that short one-year run mean each Tucker 48 is unique. This was the 44th car built and showed fewer than 8,000 original miles.
4. 1929 Duesenberg Model J Convertible Coupe, RM Sotheby’s Monterey: $1,430,000 (including premium) Hagerty Price Guide: N/A
This lovely, roadworthy J benefited from a concours-winning restoration in 2007. The desirable coachwork was once fitted to the Model J owned by chewing gum magnate Philip K. Wrigley, before he and this car’s original owner—who coveted the coachwork of Wrigley’s J—traded bodies.
3. 1935 Duesenberg Model J Cabriolet, RM Sotheby’s Hershey: $1,485,000 (including premium) Hagerty Price Guide: N/A
Belgian coachbuilders D’leteren built the elegant, athletic bodywork atop this Model J’s chassis, marking the last standard Model J to be shipped to Europe for a bespoke body. The latest restoration included new paint for the original frame, engine, firewall, and body as well as Marchal headlamps, which are correct for European-delivery Duesenbergs.
2. 1967 Chevrolet Corvette L88 Convertible, Worldwide Scottsdale: $1,980,000 (including premium) Hagerty Price Guide: $1,850,000 – $3,250,000
Just 10 L88 convertibles were built for 1967, and only one in Silver Pearl. Combine what is arguably the most beautiful Corvette generation with the most potent engine available at the time, and you’ve got a recipe for a valuable Bowtie.
1. 1933 Duesenberg Model SJ LaGrande Phaeton, RM Sotheby’s Auburn Fall: $2,300,000 (including premium) Hagerty Price Guide: N/A
Truly one of a kind, this long-wheelbase model has a folding windshield on its second cowl that gives rear-seat occupants the choice of adding a bit of wind protection, a feature absent on the rest of the “sweep panel” phaetons built by Duesenberg’s in-house coachbuilder. After spending decades naturally aspirated, the engine was returned to its original supercharged configuration in 1979.
Give us a comment of your dream car... is it one of these? Remember, if you happen to come into some fortune, Hagerty is your #1 place to insure these beauties.
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