New York--The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is shifting its focus from small individual cases to larger systemic issues--some across entire industries, an official warned a meeting of insurance professionals yesterday.

EEOC Commissioner Stuart Ishimaru said the changed emphasis was resources are limited to fight all potential employment discrimination battles.

He spoke in New York at the Employment Practices and Fiduciary Liability Symposium of the Minneapolis-based Professional Liability Underwriting Society where he urged brokers and insurers to use available data to evaluate insureds and clients whose policies could make them targets.

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