Employer is looking in to suing me?

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I have previously posted about severe work stress. I am in a junior level role in a new career and have effectively been left to work independently due to restructuring in the company. The stress has been terrible. I have been working extremely hard and gone above and beyond what other more senior employees have done. I have received a good performance review and company-wide praise.

I have now been informed that me not meeting deadlines (most of which were not due to my failures) has caused loss of income from the affected client and the company may be exploring legal action. I was pulled into an impromptu meeting last week with a C-level, alone, without the awareness of any of the 3 levels of management between me and that C-level.
All of my escalations were verbal and I was informed there were no formal escalation pathways. The company don't really send emails at all- they use slack for communication.

I have left in my notice. I am also a female in a male dominated career.

I can't believe how dirty this has gotten.

I'm not even on a high salary. Can they really sue me for loss of income? This seems completely insane. Solicitors websites I've looked at seem to suggest they can do this.

Yes, they can. However, their chances of success are low. They would need to prove that, on the balance of probabilities, you had been negligent or that you were in breach of contract, and that your negligence or breach had caused the loss. It is unlikely they would be able to do that.

Do you have indemnity insurance?

If they haven't started proceedings yet, maybe look into getting it. Hiscox do it for a tenner a month.

Am pretty sure that indemnity insurance is only for self employed /businesses with clients. Not for employees.

In any event you can't take it out if you are aware you are going to be sued! That would be fraud if not declared.

Sorry no advice for you except to maybe pop something in the legal section? I hope everything works out for you.

I would call ACAS for advice initially. Don't take out insurance you don't need that probably doesn't even apply to you!

Have you been told they want to sue you? Not the company?

It sounds like the client company is suing yours not your employer suing you personally from what you have written

Do you have home insurance? There may be some legal cover included.

Have you documented or screenshot slack comments etc that support your side of events?

Call Acas

Are you in a Union?

OP, can you clarify whether you're an employee (i.e. on their payroll) or if you are self employed, working through your own limited company, or working through an umbrella?

Disagree. The referenced to "loss of income from the affected client" seems to make it clear that OP's employer has lost income from this client and is talking about suing her. If the client was looking to take action against OP's employer, I would have expected it to be because the affected client had lost income, not because of loss of income from the client.

OP's employment status is irrelevant. Whatever her status, she can be sued if she has been negligent or is in breach of contract. However, the employer would be ill-advised to try. Their chances of success are low.