Middletown, Conn.-based MarketStance recently provided statistics to National Underwriter revealing that most small businesses remain non-buyers of standalone employment practices liability policies.

MarketStance, a provider of market and business demographic data as well as analytical services, examined EPLI buying patterns for 7.4 million small-business locations in total, defining small businesses as those with less than 50 employees.

According to MarketStance, just 80,747 of those small businesses were covered by standalone EPLI policies–roughly 1.1 percent.

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