Avoiding the 10 Most Common Causes of Employment Practices Liability Claims

Purchase this archived webinar for only $59 per Internet connection. There are no restrictions on how many people view the webinar using this single connection and sign-in (e.g., in a conference room). The webinars will be archived and available for your access up to six months from the date it occurs.

Webinar-at-a-Glance

Employment-related litigation has been a major fact of life for the past 20 years. But during the current recession, the number of workers suing their employers has skyrocketed. Now, more than ever, companies need to identify and then eliminate, the true sources of employment-related claims.

This one hour Webinar will help you avoid the 10 most common pitfalls that year-in, year-out have been shown to generate the vast majority of work-related litigation.

Using 25 years of legal practice as a guide—including his "cat-bird" seat as Co-Editor of EPLiC for more than a decade, combined with 9 years of taking "Hotline" calls for HR That Works Members—employment attorney Don Phin has homed in on the root causes of virtually all employment claims, tracing most back to just a handful of key sources. No one can ever guarantee that an organization will ever completely avoid employment litigation—especially given the current state of the economy. But using Don’s 80/20, "Critical Few vs. Trivial Many" approach, you will now have the ability to drill down on the handful of areas that really do create serious employment claim exposures.

Presented by Don Phin, Employer Advisors Network, Inc.

Who Should Consider Purchasing

This Webinar will help anyone who is faced with the responsibility and the challenge of dealing with employment practices liability litigation.

Risk and HR managers will learn how to identify the types of workplace practices that cause most claims. The information provided in this webinar will also help agents and brokers to more effectively advise their clients about the kinds of company practices that continue to produce litigation. Agents will receive knowledge to confidently recommend and place EPL insurance, and to help insurance buyers make a meaningful assessment of whether their organizations need it. Insurance company underwriters will get a first-hand look at exactly what causes claims—but before they are actually made against their insureds. Attorneys for both insurers and insureds, as well as adjusters, will learn how to better manage the claims they already have.

Benefits to Your Participation

Attendees will emerge from this Webinar with a treasure trove of proven ways to reduce their company’s exposure to employee lawsuits. Here are some of the tools and strategies that will be provided:

• Hiring approaches that screen out problem employees—while staying within the law.
• The single, most powerful interview question you can ask, to determine if you have a potential litigant sitting in front of you.
• How to document performance deficiencies so that employees "own them," a process that discourages plaintiff's attorneys from bringing a claim
• The right way and the wrong way to provide employee references.
• Avoiding age discrimination allegations: the single most costly type of EPL claim.
• Finding free sources of help in preventing wage & hour litigation.
• A comprehensive approach to fending off wrongful termination claims.
• Managing the intricacies of return to work, ADA accommodation, and FMLA leave requests (known as the Bermuda Triangle).
• How to handle employee complaints without generating retaliation claims.
• The importance of reporting "incidents" and "claims" to insurers.
• How the use of a single form can cut your claims exposure in half!
• Avoiding the overtime trap.
• Finding the right employment lawyer.
• Free tools will be provided to all participants.

Continuing Education Credit Information

Attending any three Management Liability Insurance Webinars will satisfy the annual reaccreditation requirement for the MLIS^™ program. CPCUs attending this webinar will be awarded one (1) CPD (continuing professional development) program point.

This webinar has not been filed for and will not satisfy state insurance CE requirements in any state. It has also not been filed for CLE or CPE credit, but you may be able to self-file after attending the program.