Liability Insurance
Liability Insurance Addressed
We know everyone has questions about liability insurance. The district is responsible for insuring you. Yes, you can have supplemental insurance but it won't cover anything the district insurance won't cover. So for all these years CCEA has used this scare tactic to enroll new members, knowing all along that CCSD, by law, has to insure teachers. Below is the Nevada Revised Statute that applies.
Public jurisdictions provide legal defense in civil actions against employees
NRS 41.0339 Circumstances under which official attorney to provide defense. The official attorney shall provide for the defense, including the defense of cross-claims and counterclaims, of any present or former officer or employee of the State or a political subdivision, immune contractor or State Legislator in any civil action brought against that person based on any alleged act or omission relating to his public duties or employment if:
- Within 15 days after service of a copy of the summons and complaint or other legal document commencing the action, he submits a written request for defense:
- To the official attorney; or
- If the officer, employee or immune contractor has an administrative superior, to the administrator of his agency and the official attorney; and
- The official attorney has determined that the act or omission on which the action is based appears to be within the course and scope of public duty or employment and appears to have been performed or omitted in good faith.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 1733;A 1987, 541)