COVID-19 casualties: Unpack the liability curve for Public Liability (PL) and Employer Liability (EL) claims

Organisations with potential COVID-19 casualty exposures against their PL and EL policies face potential civil claims.

Watch our 25-minute video from Carol O’Donnell, Ecclesiastical’s Casualty Technical Claims Manager to get the inside track on the emerging shape of duty of care and occupational illness risks.

Carol has 30+ years’ experience as a casualty insurance claims specialist. Her presentation will take you through the key observations Ecclesiastical has made in the past months:

• COVID-related occupational illness reporting has grown across healthcare, education, social care, public administration, defence and manufacturing
• Civil claims may appear low currently - but a pipeline of high value claims is developing as solicitors seek to replace personal injury income that has shrunk elsewhere
• We’ve seen COVID civil claims already reaching well into six figures
• COVID causation and its link to breaches in the duty of care will depend on the eventual appetite to prescribe COVID as an occupational illness.

We think it’s important to support you - our brokers and your customers – by investigating and negotiating valid claims efficiently and fairly, while defending those that demand it.

For more information or to talk through the COVID-19 PL and EL risks that affect you, call us on 0345 603 8381