Is This Even Legal?

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This website, as well as "The Other FCAS" as both an award and a term, is not affiliated with, endorsed by, authorized by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected with the Casualty Actuarial Society, or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. The official Casualty Actuarial Society website can be found at https://www.casact.org.

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The Casualty Actuarial Society holds rights over the use of FCAS as a credential. However, The Other FCAS is not a practically usable or legally defined credential; it does not grant the recipient any of the privileges associated with fellowship of the CAS. It does not grand the recipient any privileges AT ALL, unless their next-of-kin wish to print it out and stick it in a little ofrenda. It is an honorary posthumous award.

Only individuals who have met the CAS’s requirements and received permission from the CAS may use the FCAS credential. Individuals who have been awarded The Other FCAS will not be using the FCAS credential, or any other credential, for that matter, as “being dead” is a prerequisite for being awarded The Other FCAS.

The Casualty Actuarial Society’s logo and seal are registered trademarks of the CAS. The Other FCAS does not use or reference the CAS’s name, logo, or seal. We made our own logo in Microsoft Word in about five minutes, as you can probably tell (we use only the finest artisanal royalty-free clipart).

The CAS retains common-law trademark protection over the terms “ACAS” and “FCAS” in professional and promotional contexts. The Other FCAS award cannot be used in a professional context, as the dead are unemployed (er, generally). Nor can it be used in a commercial capacity, as - unlike the rest of society, in this Age of TikTok - the dead do not relentlessly self-promote. Nobody’s making any Tupac-style holograms of Ronald Bornhuetter, unjust though that may be.