Employment Practices Liability insurance is a relatively recent phenomenon on the propert-casualty insurance industry. The Practitioners Guide to Defense of EPL Claims is a new guide by the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section that covers punitive damages, investigating EPLI-covered claims, emotional injury, and litigation of EPLI claims.

Employment Practices Liability (EPL) insurance is a growing phenomenon in the insurance industry. The Practitioner's Guide to Defense of EPL Claims is a unique and invaluable tool for the employment litigator and others interested in that practice area. The contributing authors are all experts in the fields they address, and the compilation, expansive in scope, is reader-friendly and a valuable asset to the practitioner. Topics include: - Claims under other insurance including CGL and D&O - Insurability of intentional conduct & punitive damages - Investigating EPL claims - Pleading strategies, affirmative defenses, and burdens of proof - Use and misuse of statistics - Emotional injury - Back pay, front pay, compensatory and punitive damages

A manual aimed at claims handlers for general liability, motor, clinical negligence, health and safety, disease, abuse and housing disrepair.