The insurance industry is establishing a new service to make it easy for potential claimants to find out who their employers’ liability insurance was with in a particular year.

The Employers Liability Tracing Office (ELTO) service will be introduced in Spring 2011 and is designed to make it easier for people who are seeking compensation – mainly for industrial diseases to identify previous insurers. The ELTO will use an employer\’s PAYE reference to identify each employer and will begin contacting businesses over the next 12 months with a view to collating the information in a central database.

The ELTO replaces the current voluntary Employers Liability Code of Practice (ELCOP) tracing service, which has been in place since 1999 and has helped around 20,000 claimants trace the Employers Liability insurer to pursue a claim.

We will be contacting all of our commercial clients over the next 12 months to update our records and to advise their insurers accordingly.

If you have any queries regarding the ELTO please contact one of our Commercial Executives on 0113 250 0377.