Tenant Discrimination

Wilson Elser is pleased to provide Markel policyholders with access to a dedicated loss control hotline. Jointly developed with Markel, the hotline offers ready access to Wilson Elser’s accomplished housing discrimination attorneys who can provide “real time” responses to your general risk-management questions, helping you to manage and mitigate related risk.

 

As one of the nation’s largest and most respected defense firms, Wilson Elser has defended property managers, associations and boards, and real estate owners and brokers for decades in administrative complaints before the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and numerous state fair housing agencies nationwide as well as in federal and state court litigation.

 

Our attorneys have experience and skills in assisting our clients defend against claims of housing discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, disability, familial status, source of income, sex, age and other protected classifications.  We have obtained dismissals in several hundred such cases, as well as negotiated numerous favorable settlements. Wilson Elser attorneys also have a successful track record of counseling our housing clients on issues such as comfort animals and other disability-related housing accommodations as well as on unit transfers, evictions, and myriad other issues in this complex area of law.  We help these clients maintain harmonious relationships between management and tenants, minimize risk, reduce loss and contain costs.

 

We encourage you to make use of this hotline whenever you are in need of timely information and insights.

 

Disclaimer
By asking your question(s), you agree that this forum does not create an attorney-client relationship with you, and you understand that Wilson Elser is only offering pragmatic guidance, not legal advice. Using this forum does not constitute notice to your insurance company of an actual or potential claim.