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Telecommunications

Insurance advice from experts who speak your language and understand your risks.

Strategic solutions

Some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated telecommunication companies call on the Lockton team. Global players and niche competitors all face a challenging array of risk management and employee benefits issues. Lockton offers strategic solutions that deliver results.

In the ever-changing environment of telecoms, Lockton recognizes the need to go beyond traditional approaches to new risks. Our team operates with a high sense of urgency and quickly responds to your evolving needs.

You benefit from our experience

  • Business interruption and contingent business interruption analysis

  • Contract review

  • Detailed property risk marketing (COPE) reports

  • Directors & officers liability

  • HPR engineering

  • International program design and management (master controlled)

  • Network and media liability

  • Risk identification and assessment

  • Risk management consulting

  • Tech errors & omissions

Telecommunications firms also value Lockton’s deep expertise in alternative risk finance strategies:

  • Developing captive strategy for wireless inland marine coverage

  • Forming captive structure for leading independent local exchange carriers

  • Supporting a major telecommunications merger by amalgamating one carrier’s captive into the other

  • Analyzing employee benefits captive options

  • Reviewing and upgrading captive asset management strategies 

Latest news & insights

Luxembourg has amended its Labor Code under articles L. 312-9 and L312-10 to introduce an explicit right to disconnect for employees and implement fines for employers who fail to take action or breach the provisions of a right to disconnect agreement. The law came into force on 4 July 2023.Luxembourg enacts right to disconnect [Updated]

Luxembourg enacts right to disconnect [Updated]

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Luxembourg has amended its Labour Code under Articles L.312-9 and L.312-10 to introduce a structured right-to-disconnect framework requiring employers to ensure implementation of measures governing disconnection from digital tools through collective bargaining ...
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Australia Combines and Expands Parental Leave Entitlements [Updated]

The Australian government recently announced that the existing government-paid primary caregiver parental leave and partners leave will be combined into a single 20 week leave available to, and shareable between, both parents starting from 1 July 2023.The Australian government recently announced that the existing government-paid primary caregiver parental leave and partners leave will be combined into a single 20 week leave available to, and shareable between, both parents starting from 1 July 2023.

Where there’s smoke: How plan sponsors can guard against tobacco surcharge litigation

For organizations that offer wellness programs to their workforce, there’s increased scrutiny over how employees who use other tobacco products are treated under those programs. For organizations that offer wellness programs to their workforce, there’s increased scrutiny over how employees who use other tobacco products are treated under those programs.

IRS releases HSA and high-deductible health plan limits for 2027

The IRS has announced the inflation-adjusted contributions and related amounts for health savings accounts (HSAs) and HSA-compatible high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) for 2027.The IRS has announced the inflation-adjusted contributions and related amounts for health savings accounts (HSAs) and HSA-compatible high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) for 2027.
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