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Insights for handling a sexual harassment claim

An increase in the number of harassment claims highlights the need for coverage and training.

By Ken Brownlee, CPCU | Updated on January 17, 2018

Following the election of Donald Trump and his campaign comments on acts of harassment as “locker room talk” in 2016, a number of celebrities ranging from television stars to news media reporters and even U.S. Senators and House members, were caught in a “me too” movement of allegations by women of sexual harassment, assault and inappropriate activities. Some of these incidents had taken place as many as 40 years earlier.

Like the sexual activities of clergy that cost the Roman Catholic Church millions of dollars in settlements, the public learned that many of these accusers had been “paid off” by the alleged attackers, sometimes with public funds.

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