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District broker briefs board on PACE coverage, warns members to stay within 'course and scope'
Summary
Brown and Brown broker Marcus Spitz told the Crook County School District board that its PACE pool provides robust liability protection (about $20 million) but coverage hinges on whether members act within the board's agreed course and scope; he warned about social-media and ethics risks and said ethics-defense reimbursements are limited to $25,000 per official.
Brown and Brown Insurance broker Marcus Spitz told the Crook County School District board during a work session that the district—s PACE insurance pool gives local districts unusually broad liability protection but that coverage depends on whether board members act within the board—s "course and scope."
Spitz said PACE is a statewide Oregon school-entity pool that "provides a very robust amount of coverage, dollars 20,000,000 worth of coverage," and that the organization emphasizes training and collaborative claim handling rather than…
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