Coverage: Employers
Responsibility
One of many coverages offered in the ACE USA International
Advantage® Package policy, for losses that occur outside the United
States.
Outside the U.S., nothing quite compares to our
nation’s own workers compensation system for comprehensive coverage.
Likewise, few countries can match America’s high standard for
healthcare, and U.S. travelers often require medical evacuation for
emergency treatment. Addressing these realities, companies purchase
employers responsibility coverage to assure seamless protection for
workers living or traveling in foreign lands.
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Why
Needed
- Accidents and illnesses occur when employees travel overseas.
- Businesses need a way to protect against employee-filed
lawsuits for accidents or diseases contracted outside the U.S.
- Business travelers often require timely assistance with
medical, personal, travel or security matters while overseas.
- Employers doing government work beyond U.S. borders need Defense Base Act
Coverage for military and non-military projects.
Coverages
- Voluntary compensation (overseas version of workers comp)
- Employers liability
- Repatriation
Limits
- Voluntary compensation – statutory workers comp benefits
- Employers’ liability – $1 million bodily injury to employees
for accident or endemic illness
- Medical evacuation/repatriation - $500,000 policy limit
Features
- Voluntary compensation – available to U.S. & non-U.S.
employees to cover occurrences outside the U.S. where U.S.
workers’ comp does not apply.
- Employers liability – covers accidents or diseases contracted
outside U.S.; claims/suits may be brought anywhere.
- Medical evacuation/repatriation – one of the Executive
Assistance® emergency travel services (see More Details below)
available to employees covered by this policy.
- Employers responsibility is mandatory coverage when commercial
general liability is not purchased as part of ACE USA
International Advantage ® Package Policy.
Frequently Asked
Questions
When would
coverage be needed? If the insured will be on board a
vessel in international waters, or working dockside or on board a
vessel in a foreign country, MEL [Marine Employers Liability]
coverage may be required.
What is Voluntary
Compensation?
Workers Compensation coverage that
is provided voluntarily by an employer in the absence of a statutory
requirement to provide workers compensation.
What is Endemic
Disease? A disease
that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people
of a certain class or in people living in a particular
location.
What is Executive
Assistance®? Executive Assistance® refers to medical,
legal, personal and security services provided by our policy. Some
services may be included without charge for our policyholders. Other
services may require additional payment. Please refer to the Medical
Assistance limit for repatriation and evacuation
coverage
More Details
Executive Assistance® –
An array of valuable services for U.S.-based companies whose employees travel
overseas on business
- Available with employers
responsibility coverage under the ACE USA International Advantage
Package policy.
- Coordinated through two
of the world's leading providers of emergency travel services.
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