Gallagher vs Marsh Employment Practices Liability Insurance

Gallagher's Executive and Financial Risk practice places EPL insurance with outside carriers and advises on limits and program design; it does not underwrite the policy. ³Company-reported. Group-level executive-and-financial-risk practice page.

Marsh's financial and professional liability practice places employment practices liability insurance (EPLI); MMA also places EPL coverage within its executive and professional liability practice for middle-market clients. ^10,11Company-reported. Marsh EPL page and MMA executive and professional liability page.

The executive-and-financial-risk page does not name the insurer that would issue a given client's EPL policy. ³Not publicly disclosed. Checked the group-level executive-and-financial-risk practice page.

The reviewed pages do not name a specific EPLI insurer; the named endorsements appear to be Marsh-negotiated policy features rather than a Marsh-underwritten product. ^10,11Not publicly disclosed. Marsh EPL page and MMA executive and professional liability page as read on 2026-09-23.

Gallagher says its EPL exposure modeling accounts for an organization's employee count, employee type and mix, and location of operations, reflecting that EPL claim size correlates with organization size and diversity. ³Company-reported. Group-level executive-and-financial-risk practice page.

Marsh says employers of all sizes face potential EPL liability, but its named endorsements target companies by size band: over 4,000 employees for the Global Leaders Endorsement and 250 to 4,000 employees for the Leaders Preferred Endorsement. ¹⁰Company-reported. Marsh EPL page.

Gallagher describes EPL coverage as responding to claims such as sexual harassment and wrongful termination, protecting against both class actions and single-plaintiff claims. ³Company-reported. Group-level executive-and-financial-risk practice page; a service description, not a specific policy's insuring agreement or exclusions.

Marsh says EPLI can respond to allegations including discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, failure to employ or promote, negligent evaluation, and violation of an employee's civil rights, brought by past, present or prospective employees or third parties. ¹⁰Company-reported. Marsh EPL page; illustrative policy description, not a specific policy form.

Marsh names two proprietary EPL endorsements: the Global Leaders Endorsement, built for large and multinational companies with more than 4,000 employees, and the Leaders Preferred Endorsement, for midsize companies with 250 to 4,000 employees. ¹⁰Company-reported. Marsh EPL page, Marsh's EPL services section.

The page does not publish specific EPL limits or premium ranges; it describes only the benchmarking process used to recommend limits. ³Not publicly disclosed. Checked the group-level executive-and-financial-risk practice page.

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Gallagher says it uses client data and predictive models, plus benchmarking and contract analysis, to guide EPL limits advice, and maintains its own EPL and Wage and Hour loss databases, including a review of historical losses exceeding $1 million drawn from a database it says it began building in 1997. ³Company-reported. Group-level executive-and-financial-risk practice page; Gallagher's own analytical tools, not independently audited.

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