Serving Up The Right Coverage

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, which brought issues surrounding sexual harassment to the forefront, restaurants have become more interested in buying appropriate insurance protection, says David DeLorenzo, CEO of the Ambassador Group Insurance and founder of the Bar & Restaurant Specialty Program based in Phoenix.

It’s an area of risk in which his retail agency has seen the most interest from restaurant and bar owners in the past year or so, he says. Employment practices liability, especially stand-alone policies, have been the biggest growth area for his agency in the last five years. It’s not surprising given the rate of incidents.

More sexual harassment claims in the U.S. are filed in the restaurant industry than in any other industry, according to the Harvard Business Review. Restaurants report that as much as 90 percent of women and 70 percent of men have experienced some form of sexual harassment.

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Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and is particularly interested in the effects of unconscious biases in the evaluation of women and minorities, with the goal of finding ways to mitigate those biases. Dr. Johnson brings bias to light with an engaging and humorous approach to advanced scientific research, which has earned her numerous accolades and invitations to present her work at meetings around the world, including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America on National Equal Pay Day, and the 2016 Harvard Negotiation and Leadership Conference. She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology and The Academy of Management Journal. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership-development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. In recognition of her unique research, Dr. Johnson has been awarded nearly three million dollars in external funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring her work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and CNN. Stefanie lives in the Boulder Bubble in Colorado with her Biology Professor husband, two young kiddos, and two old kitties.