EPL Discrimination Awards Dip Slightly

E&S/SPECIALITY LINES Employment Practices Liability Insurance

EVERY JULY, THE NATIONAL UNDERWRITER COMPANY publishes the Agent/Broker Buyers Guide to Insurance Coverages, an annual directory of excess, surplus, and specialty lines coverage providers. To make the information more accessible to readers, and to supplement National Underwriters E&S and Specialty Lines Reports, sections of the Buyers Guide will be integrated into the pages of National Underwriter as a series of product specific directories.This directory is an alphabetical listing of companies and brokers offering Employment Practices Liability. To be included in upcoming NationalUnderwriter E&S directories, contact Del J. Trame, Marketing Coordinator,by e-mail at dtrame@nuco.com.

Burns & Wilcox
30833 Northwestern Hwy. # 220
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
248-932-9000
800-521-1918
fax: 248-932-9050
e-mail: info@burns-wilcox.com
www.burnsandwilcox.com

Charity First
Ed Geniblazo- Directors & Officers,
Including EPLI
One Market, Spear Tower, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-536-8557
fax: 415-536-4033
e-mail: ed_geniblazo@ajg.com
http://www.charityfirst.com
States Available: All except Louisiana
Coverages: Nonprofit Employment Practices Liability Insurance on a named perils basis, but must be purchased with Nonprofit Directors & Officers Liability Insurance, which covers the standard D&O claims.

Cincinnati Insurance Company
Jeff Barnes, (Product Manager)
6200 South Gilmore Rd.
Fairfield, OH 45014
513-870-2445
513-870-2971
e-mail: jeff_barnes@cinfin.com
www.cinfin.com
States Available: AZ, AK, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, ME, MD, MI, MO, MT, NE, NH, NY, NC, ND, OH, PA, SD, TN, UT, VT, VA, WI, WY.
Coverages: EPLI endorsed to Cincinnati Insurance commercial package only, also available as part of a D&O package with Fiduciary Liability.

Delaware Valley Underwriting Agency, Inc. (DVUA)
Judy Klingerman, AAI (Hatboro, PA)
Linda Bobro (Pittsburgh, PA)
Charla Woodeshick, CPCU
(Florham Park, NJ)
Hatboro: 420 S. York Rd
Hatboro, PA 19040
800-388-0215
fax: 215-672-7983
e-mail: klingerman@dvua.com
Pittsburgh: One Forestwood Dr,
Suite 203
Pittsburgh, PA 15237
800-892-5938
fax: 412-366-1760
e-mail: bobro@dvua.com
New Jersey: 25 Vreeland Rd, Bldg B
Florham Park, NJ 07932
800-772-2207
fax: 973-377-2430
e-mail: woodeshick@dvua.com
e-mail: info@dvua.com
www.dvua.com
States Available: PA, MD, DE, NJ, SC, NC,VA, KY, OH, NY
Coverages: Third Party Liability, Third PartyDiscrimination, Defense outside the limits, Punitive Damages, FMLA No Intentional Acts Exclusion for Artisan Contractors, Banks/Financial Institutions, Consultants, Doctors, Hotels/Motels, Ins Agencies,Supermarkets,Transportation/Trucking, Social Service Organizations, Retailers/Wholesalers/Sales.

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Houston Casualty Company
Richard V. Rupp, CPCU, Vice President
EPLI Product Manager
50 California Street, Suite 940
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-277-2460
fax: 415-288-0771

AON Specialty Product Network (ASPN)
200 East Randolph Street, 18th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
877-ASK-ASPN
fax: 312-381-6211
e-mail: moreinfo@askaspn.com
www.askaspn.com

BISYS EPLI Program/
Five Star Managers, LLC
Doug Tobin
Asst. VP of Underwriting/Program Manager
118 S. Clinton St., Suite 450
Chicago, IL 60661
866-879-6565
312-879-7146
fax: 312-879-1335
e-mail: EPLI@bisys.com
www.5starmgrs.com
Limits available: $500,000 to $3,000,000.
Coverages: Full prior acts, third party (discrimination & harassment), punitive damages and failure to make partner/shareholder coverages available for most risks.We have a specialized restaurant franchise program policy form as well as a specialized law firm EPLI policy form in addition to our standard broad EPL policy form. Program includes specialty claimshandling team comprised of labor attorneys.

Reproduced from National Underwriter Edition, July 16, 2004. Copyright 2004 by The National Underwriter Company in the serial publication. All rights reserved.Copyright in this article as an independent work may be held by the author.