Employers Liability Insurance - Protect Business and Your Employees

By Ben Ashfalk

Employers liability Insurance covers the following: an employee falling ill, or getting injured in the workplace, or the case of an employee's death. Employers liability insurance is a must have insurance. There can be only two exceptional situations where you can save yourself from getting an employers liability insurance. Either you are running a single employee company, you being the only employee, or if you only hire your family members. In any setup other than this, employers liability insurance becomes mandatory.

Employers liability insurance is not only mandatory in the United States, but also in other countries such as France, Great Britain, and Canada.

So how can this insurance benefit you, the business owner? In case your employee(s) decides to file a lawsuit against you for an accident they suffered, the medical and legal and other costs will be covered by your insurance provider.

When covered by an employers liability insurance, part or whole of the costs of a claim may be covered for you. This depends upon the factor as to who was responsible for the accident in the first place. If it was your employee himself, you don't have to worry about the costs any further.

Note again that employers liability insurance is a legal obligation. If you did not get it, you can be punished under the law and may have to pay a fine for each day that your employee(s) were not covered. In fact, a health and safety agency may even shut down your business.

The insurance certificate that you get must be available for your employees to read. You can put up a copy of the certificate on your company's information board and perhaps put another copy on the company website, whatever way suits you better.

Employers liability insurance (EL Insurance) covers only your employees. It doesn't cover people outside your organization. So if you want to cover the costs of general public injuries (or accidents) occurring in your business premises, you would require a public liability insurance.

Furthermore, EL insurance does not protect your from discrimination claims, wrongful terminations claims, harassment claims, etc.

Your insurer must be authorized, otherwise you will be breaking the law. Also, you would want to compare the premium costs of different insurers so that you get yourself a decent deal.

The beauty of EL insurance is that it protects you from having to directly pay costs in the event an employee is injured on the job. It protects both you, by being able to cover any costs without going out of business, and the employee, who may be unable to work temporarily. - 23211

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About the author: Ben Ashfalk is passionate about employers liability insurance and liability insurance coverage.