Restoration Insurance: What is Employers Liability?
Workers' compensation insurance was designed as an exclusive, no-fault remedy for an injured employee to be compensated in the event of a claim. While primarily intended to cover the medical bills and lost income for the injured employee, workers' compensation also provides some essential additional insurance coverage through employers' liability.
What is Employers Liability?
Employers Liability helps protect companies against claims that aren't considered part of the medical bills of workers' compensation and are also excluded under the general liability policy.
Employers liability provides coverage to restoration contractors for these four common types of claims:
Consequential bodily injury claims
Dual capacity claims
Loss of consortium claims
Third-party-over claims
Consequential bodily injury claims arise when a family member of the injured employee becomes ill due to the employee's injury. For example, if a spouse were to have a nervous breakdown caused by their employee spouse's injury.
Dual capacity is the idea of bringing a claim against the employer, but not in their capacity as the employer. For example, if an employee were to slip and fall on the company premises and the employee brought suit against the employer, not as the employer, but as the building owner.
Loss of consortium is losing the services of a spouse or parent.
Third-party-over claims come from an injured employee suing a third party, who in turn sues the worker's employer.
Most companies carry employer's liability limits of $1,000,000 per employee, per injury, and policy.
If you have any additional questions about how employers' liability works, please feel free to contact our office.
