Originally Posted by Radio Active

AARCMCC have a group insurance policy that affiliated clubs can buy into as of late last year. The AARCMCC insurance package includes public liability, personal injury insurance for racers, travel insurance to and from meetings and indemnity insurance. Taking out the insurance option isn't a requirement of affiliation.

To host an AARCMCC sanctioned event a club has to be AARCMCC affiliated and meet some other requirements, one of which is a certain insurance standard. Those clubs who have joined the AARCMCC insurance scheme meet the standard. Other affiliated clubs can still host sanctioned events if their policy meets the standard AARCMCC require. There is some talk about the standard being raised, I'm not sure where that is up to.

Probably more of an issue is dual sanctioning. An announcement was made at the AGM 2 weeks ago that AARCMCC would no longer dual sanction any State Championship with another body. It was made clear that this decision was taken after one particular body (that I won't name here) behaved in an obstructionist way involving legal proceedings. The concept of dual sanctioning has always been hard to reconcile with the AARCMCC rules, and really I think this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Well that along with the confusion over World Championship qualifying points at the end of last year.