Employment Practices Liability

The claimant, a registered nurse, was employed by the insured as a site safety compliance officer. Their chief duties were to enforce health and safety protocols in the workplace, and ensure those protocols remained compliant and up-to-date with applicable state and federal laws. In the course of their duties, the claimant observed that many of the insured’s protocols were out-of-date and fell short of current standards set by federal and state regulators. They brought these concerns to the company’s CEO, who refused to take any corrective action and instead shrank the scope of the claimant’s job duties. In response, the claimant quit their job and sued both the company and the CEO for retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The complaint requested compensatory economic damages for the loss of their job, emotional distress damages, punitive damages, and attorneys’ fees and costs.

A construction company employed a laborer who had a heart condition that required them to miss a day or two of work each month for doctor’s appointments. After a few months, the laborer’s supervisor told them they needed to be on disability and terminated their employment. The laborer sued the construction company, claiming they had discriminated against them based on their disability and failed to engage in the interactive process by not exploring whether he could be moved to another role before they fired them. The laborer’s complaint requested back pay, front pay, punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and court costs.

An upscale restaurant was sued by one of its hosts, who claimed they had been sexually harassed and retaliated against by one of the restaurant’s managers. According to the host, the manager flirted with them by making sexually-charged comments. After they turned down the manager’s request for a date, the manager began calling them “ugly” in front of co-workers, yelled at them for pretextual reasons, and routinely chose them for undesirable and onerous tasks over other restaurant workers. The host's complaint stated claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and local state and city human rights laws, and requested relief in the form of emotional distress damages, compensatory damages, economic damages, punitive damages, attorneys' fees, and costs.

The claimant, a registered nurse, was employed by the insured as a site safety compliance officer. Their chief duties were to enforce health and safety protocols in the workplace, and ensure those protocols remained compliant and up-to-date with applicable state and federal laws. In the course of their duties, the claimant observed that many of the insured’s protocols were out-of-date and fell short of current standards set by federal and state regulators. They brought these concerns to the company’s CEO, who refused to take any corrective action and instead shrank the scope of the claimant’s job duties. In response, the claimant quit their job and sued both the company and the CEO for retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The complaint requested compensatory economic damages for the loss of their job, emotional distress damages, punitive damages, and attorneys’ fees and costs.