Insurance Law

When is rogue employee conduct covered? Course and scope of employment decisions

By David Rossmiller

Reading cases about insurance coverage for employee bad conduct is sometimes difficult -- not just the legal part of it, the facts are often pretty disturbing.  I mean, some of these folks? We're talking major league weirdos.  After I read some of these cases, I feel like going to wash my hands -- or not, considering they are often about some wacko using bathroom surveillance equipment.  You read these, you've got to watch The Sound of Music three or four times just to get your mind right again.

Randy Maniloff has done a service by taking a close look at some of these cases and how the coverage issues in them shake out.  Here's a copy of a good article he wrote on the subject for a recent edition of Mealey's.  Didn't ask him how many times he had to wash his hands during the course and scope of writing this piece.    

Full post as published by Insurance Coverage Law Blog on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).