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According to the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles federal court, the insurance company Liberty Corporate Capital claims that it does not cover the Cal Poly SAE members but only the national organization.
Furthermore, says Liberty, there are specific exemptions in the insurance policy that enable the company to escape having to pay, namely hazing and underage drinking.
As such, the company is asking the court to declare that the chapter and its members are not insured under the policy and are excluded under the hazing and underage drinking provisions.
Two of the students who were involved with the event the night Starkey died have since pleaded no contest to hazing and were sentenced to probation and less than four moths in jail.