The House narrowly passed legislation last week that detractors say would go well beyond reversing a May Supreme Court ruling severely limiting the time employees have to file wage discrimination suits.

An industry lawyer cautioned that the bill, if enacted by Congress, “has far more serious implications for employers”–and by extension, their employment practice insurers–than the issues raised in the high court decision.

Debra Friedman, a lawyer in the Philadelphia office of Cozen & O'Connor, said the bill goes beyond the U.S. Supreme Court's May 29 Ledbetter decision, and was quickly drafted “without any significant input from the employer community.”

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