{"id":4967,"date":"2025-03-28T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/insurer-denies-dunkin-donuts-franchise-coverage-in-employment-class-action\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:55:22","slug":"insurer-denies-dunkin-donuts-franchise-coverage-in-employment-class-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/insurer-denies-dunkin-donuts-franchise-coverage-in-employment-class-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurer Denies Dunkin\u2019 Donuts Franchise Coverage in Employment Class Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A Pennsylvania insurer is asking a federal judge in Illinois to rule that it has no duty to defend or indemnify a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts franchise or its parent company in a labor class action, arguing it never issued them an insurance policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p><b>Takeaway:<\/b> Employment practices liability policies are commonplace for businesses to protect financial stability and mitigate risk, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/2025\/03\/03\/the-workplace-changes-why-doesnt-employment-practices-liability-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">experts have advocated<\/a> for insurance companies to change and properly structure these policies to decrease instances of harassment and discrimination in the workplace. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p><b>Court: <\/b>Illinois, U.S. District Court for the Northern District<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pennsylvania insurer is asking a federal judge in Illinois to rule that it has no duty to defend or indemnify a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts franchise or its parent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[715,650,3045,1242,1938,1937,451,1939,2397],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-action","tag-class","tag-coverage","tag-denies","tag-donuts","tag-dunkin","tag-employment","tag-franchise","tag-insurer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}