Offshore Employers Liability: Remedies, Liabilities, Indemnities and Insurance Solutions

摘要

Offshore employment of professional and non-professional workers creates various employer's liability exposures, which are frequently different from those applicable to the same employee in wholly shoreside employment. This paper attempts to provide information useful for the anticipation of these exposures and for the provision of protection from these liabilities. The most common protections are insurance provided by the employer, insurance provided by third parties, and indemnity contracts. Indemnity contracts are also a frequent source of employer's liability, because other entities in the offshore work environment frequently include employee indemnity provisions in their contracts for offshore work. Alternative strategies such as self-insured retentions, stop-loss, excess and umbrella insurance programs, or risk financing concepts are beyond the scope of this presentation.