USA Swimming is excited to announce the successful renewal of its General Liability and Excess Liability insurance policies for 2023-2024. We would like to thank our partners at Insurance Office of America (IOA), USA Swimming’s insurance broker, for allowing us to renew our policy early. This provides our membership ample time to retrieve certificates of insurance (“Certificates”) for their facilities.
Below you will find information regarding Certificates and the renewal process.
To Renew Certificates for Facilities that Received Certificates under USA Swimming’s 2022 General Liability and/or Excess Liability Policies:
- Please use this form to request a renewal certificate of insurance for any facility for which you received a Certificate for USA Swimming insurance coverage in the 2022 calendar year.
- If you need more than four renewal Certificates because you are renewing at multiple facilities, please email USASCOI@ioausa.com directly. Your email must include your club’s full name, city, and state as well as the name of the facilities, their addresses and an email contact for the facility.
- If you have previously sent in a request for a renewal certificate, you do not need to submit an additional form. IOA will send Certificates out in the order they were received.
- The request form is also located on USA swimming insurance website at usaswimming.org/insurance.
To Request a Certificate for a New Facility:
- When requesting a Certificate for a facility for which you did not receive a Certificate for 2022 coverage, please visit usaswimming.org/insurance and click “request a certificate of insurance.” This is located under “General Liability.”
IOA will monitor and respond to requests between 6:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. MT Monday – Friday. A completed Certificate will be emailed by the IOA Service Team to your facility and your club. This email will be sent from mail-server@csr24.email. There will be an influx of requests due to the renewal, so please allow 2-3 days to receive your Certificate.
As a reminder, below you will find what activities USA Swimming’s General Liability and Excess Liability insurance covers:
With respect to USA Swimming member clubs, group members, member coaches and volunteers, as well as additional insured owners/lessors of premises, sponsors and co-promoters, “Covered Activities” are defined as:
- Swimming meets which have been issued a written sanction or approval. Approval means a permit issued by the USA Swimming, Inc. Local Swimming Committees for swimming meets conducted in conformance with USA Swimming, Inc. technical rules in which members and non-members may compete. USA Swimming, Inc. member clubs that either host or participate in a swimming meet that has been issued an approval will be considered insured provided all of its athletes or participants and coaches are members of USA Swimming, Inc.
- Swimming practices, dry land training activities, camps and learn to swim programs where all swimmers or participants are members of USA Swimming, Inc. or U.S. Masters Swimming and are conducted under direct and active supervision of a member coach. Dry land training activities means weight training, running calisthenics, exercise machine training and any other activity for which an insured has received approval from USA Swimming, Inc. or its authorized representative.
- USA Swimming, Inc., Swim-A-Thons. A fundraising activity which clubs can purchase for lap-a-thons.
- Approved social events and approved fundraising activities that are social events and activities for which an insured has received approval from USA Swimming, Inc. or its authorized representative.
- Swimming tryouts. Swimming tryouts means swimming practices where a swimmer(s) who is not and has never been a member of USA Swimming, Inc. participates with a USA Swimming, Inc. club for a period not to exceed thirty consecutive days in a twelve-month period to determine the swimmer’s interest in becoming a member of USA Swimming, Inc.
- Office premises liability for member clubs and LSCs.
- STSC, CPR and Lifeguard Certifications of USA Swimming member coaches done by USA Swimming member coaches that are member representatives of one of the approved agencies listed on the USA Swimming STSC In-Water Skills Checklist.
- “Organized practices” which have been reported and a premium has been paid. Organized practices are defined as recreation league meets hosted by USA member clubs with community teams that are not USA Swimming member clubs.
If you have questions regarding the certificate process or have any questions regarding the General Liability and Excess Liability Insurance Program, please contact John Burkart, Esq. (John.Burkart@ioausa.com, 949-466-5407) or riskmanagement@usaswimming.org.
Novemebr 29, 2022
