Legal Question in Employment Law in New York

I need to know if my former employee must indemnify me from a lawsuit filed agai

I recently left a job. A few weeks after leaving, a former employee sued my former company for racial discrimination. They also named me personally in the lawsuit. Is my former employer obligated to defend me? Is my former employer obligated to indemnify me from the costs of this lawsuit? I was employed in New York, and the purported discrimination occurred in New York. I live in New Jersey, and my company is headquartered in Pennsylvania.


Asked on 2/11/04, 11:51 am

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Stephen Loeb Law Office of Stephen R. Loeb

Re: I need to know if my former employee must indemnify me from a lawsuit filed

They are probably not obligated to defend you or indemnify you unless you were promoting company policy, on the other hand they would be foolish not to want to defend you as you would be foolish to not seek your own independent counsel.

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Answered on 2/11/04, 12:03 pm


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