Developers rushing to get projects off the ground can face significant risks without developing clearly defined indemnity clauses at the outset. Indemnity clauses, included in virtually all ...

Business executives often spend a considerable amount of time negotiating the contract terms they deem the most critical while others are merely glanced over. As such, monetary terms, warranties, lead ...

There is often an argument to be made that certain indemnification and exculpatory clauses should be against public policy. When entering into a residential lease, for instance, many future tenants ...

Plan sponsors should ask for indemnification clauses when they enter into contracts with service providers and retirement plan advisers, experts say. Indemnification clauses are promises by the ...

My last article pointed out a situation where parties conflate contractual indemnity and damages clauses. The standard language in Dunce’s Caps’ contract provided for an indemnification of “any and ...

Law and Emergency Medicine is a new feature that will be appearing regularly in Common Sense. Articles will focus on legal, regulatory, and political issues that affect emergency physicians. We need ...

As used in website development contracts, indemnification typically concerns whether the vendor will defend you in court if you later get sued for your use of the technology, including Intellectual ...

This story appears in the March 30 print edition of Transport Topics. Spurred by trucking industry leaders, more states this year are banning contracts that shift liability for any incident that ...