Paddling clubs who have a current ACA Paddle America Club membership and adhere to ACA’s risk management requirements are eligible to participate in ACA’s insurance program. This program provides year-round general liability coverage to club members (who are also ACA members), event members, coaches, event organizers, and administrators arising from club-sponsored and adult-supervised on-water workshops, practices, training, instruction, and ACA sanctioned events as well as non-water activities such as approved fundraisers, banquets, and meetings.
Insurance
For Clubs
Important Information
- Before & After Your Event
- PAC Forms and Resources
- Online Waiver Administration Help
- Request event insurance coverage ACA using this electronic form. You may request event coverage at any time during the year, as long as the ACA’s Insurance Department receives notification 72 hours prior to the start of the event/activity.
- If you need assistance, please contact the ACA’s Insurance Coordinator at insurance@americancanoe.org.
- All fees collected at the event, such as Event Memberships.
- Event Final Report Form (must be submitted online only)
- If your club used the online SmartWaiver system, you do not need to submit waivers with your final event report form.
- If your club used paper liability waivers, please submit scanned copies of the signed ACA waivers with the event final report form.
- Note: Event Final Report Forms received more than 30 days after the completion of the insured event are subject to a $25 late reporting fee.
- PAC Annual Agreement and Fee Schedule
To sign the agreement electronically, you must download and save the PDF file to your computer. - ACA’s Risk Management Requirements
- Request for Event/Activity Insurance Coverage
- Online Event Calendar Request Form
- Event Final Report Form
- Incident / Accident Report Form
- Class III+ Whitewater Events: Special Insurance Registration Form
- When completing an Insurance Request Form for your event, select “Yes” when asked, “Do You Want a Custom Online Smartwaiver Link?”
- Identify up to five (5) club/organization leaders who wish to have access to the annual waiver administrative tool
- Required information for your selected organization leaders: First Name, Last Name, and Email Address
- Each of those five (5) individuals will receive an email directly from SmartWaiver which will include instructions on how to access the administrative tool
- The ACA Insurance Department will then send you an email with a direct link for you to share with your club members – this is a link unique to your organization, and must be used in order to effectively use the administrative waiver review tool
- Online waivers signed outside of this unique link will NOT populate your administrative review screen.
Before your event
After your event
Within 30 days of the completion of the event, please submit:
Using the SmartWaiver system, clubs now have the opportunity to review all your club members’ signed annual waivers in one location. To utilize this new administrative tool: