Cases are won and lost based on the quality of legal representation. If you become the target of an allegation or investigation, one of the first things the agency or investigators will want to know is who is your liability carrier–or–who is your attorney.

Media sensation, negative public impact, political agendas and disgruntled employees are just a few of the reasons federal managers should have liability insurance from FEDS Protection in place.

As the new year begins, we reflect on the past year thinking about family, friends, work, the future.

Would you like to get something special this Holiday Season?  What if you could get something that would last a whole year?

FEDS just celebrated its 10-year anniversary defending federal employees. When the company was founded, the goal was to provide the very best legal representation and customer service in the industry – and we did that.

You are dedicated. You are hardworking. You have an exemplary record. You would never need a lawyer to defend an act, error or omission in the course of your employment. Unfortunately, your phone call is the hardest one we receive and almost always starts with, “I can’t believe this is happening to me.”

There is inherent risk in everyday federal management decisions.

In a recent IG report, employee abuse of Religious Compensatory Time (RCT) at the EPA resulted in big payouts and potential additional payouts.

As a result of recent news articles including Newsweek’s U.S. Probes Chinese Ownership of CIA-Linked Insurance Company article, FEDS has received numerous inquiries over the last month regarding ownership, coverage and the process of changing providers.

Debate season is in full swing as the races for the Republican and Democratic nominees for the 2016 presidential election begin to kick into high gear.

As we approach the presidential election in November, it is important for all federal employees to review the guidelines governing their expression of political support. The governing law, as all federal employees should know, is the Hatch Act. First passed in 1939, the Hatch Act regulates what federal employees can share or promote regarding political campaigns. The act is frequently updated, and the latest revisions in 2014 outlined how federal employees can display their political preferences on social media. While most federal employees are familiar with Hatch Act provisions in their everyday interactions, the explosion in social media over the last decade and its removed quality leads some employees to forget that the Hatch Act applies on social media as well.

Managers in today’s federal government perform an increasingly difficult job. With the strides that the government has made in recent years reducing inequality and discrimination in the workplace, the occurrence of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaints has steadily risen.

Last month, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a report that announced the level of disabled workers in the federal government is higher than it has been in the 34 years that the statistic has been tracked.

I was the lucky one – I had professionally liability insurance from FEDS. Here’s my story. I was accused of wrongdoing as part of the GSA "scandal.” At the time I had nearly forty years with the federal government and was the longest serving senior executive in the agency.

One of the federal government’s most criticized methods of dealing with employee discipline issues—paid administrative leave--has become the recent focus of a push by Republicans on Capitol Hill as well as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

A June report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Office of Inspector General criticized the actions of agency management regarding disciplinary actions against employees. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) report alleged a “culture of complacency” at the EPA that led to lax time and attendance controls, as well as lengthy delays in issuing discipline to offending employees.

Being a manager or supervisor has long been one of the most difficult jobs in the federal workforce, given the myriad challenges inherent in running an efficient office, in addition to following all government-wide regulations.

With the ushering in of a new law legalizing the possession of marijuana in the District of Columbia, there is bound to be some amount of confusion among the roughly 500,000 federal employees who live in the area surrounding the nation’s capital.