Employment Practices Liability

Most investors and directors will require that you carry this coverage as part of your Directors and Officers Liability Insurance since they can also be held liable in suits relating to employment practices.

Employment Practices Liability Insurance is needed as soon as you start to hire employees. Since 2000, the number of employees alleging discrimination, wrongful termination, sexual harassment and retaliation has increased. EPLI policies shield employers from claims of harassment, discrimination, failure to hire, wrongful termination, and includes all current, former, and perspective employees, directors and officers, even the corporate entity.

The cost of EPLI coverage varies on your type of business, the number of employees you have and various risk factors such as whether your company has been sued over employment practices in the past. Such lawsuits, which range in size and scope, have been spawned by several factors:

  • Professional plaintiffs' bars' eagerness to sue employers for employment-related issues
  • Laws expanding employees' righs in the workplace opening the way for new "causes of action" to be brought against employers, plus broader rights of recovery.
  • Increased third-party litigation brought by customers, consumers and clients seeking legal recourse for alleged discrimination or harassment
  • Directors and officers named for their role in day-to-day operations

WHY KRAUTER EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES LIABILITY?
Krauter & Company can help you take steps to prevent employee related lawsuits, and educate your managers and employees to minimize the occurence for such issues in the workplace. Regardless of your business type or the effective employement practices and procedures, you are still vulnerable to employment-related liabilities. Therefore, it is important to create effective hiring and screening programs to avoid discrimination in hiring.

MORE INFORMATION? CONTACT US.
For more information about Krauter & Company’s EPL capabilities or professionals, send your request to: info@krautergroup.com

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