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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a follow-up to last month’s posts regarding contract provisions impacting intellectual property ownership, in this month’s Contract Corner we review issues regarding intellectual property ...

Any contractor seeking bonding capacity, whether it be for public or private projects, will necessarily see a general indemnity agreement as a part ...

Despite their importance and prevalence in almost every sales contract, indemnity clauses are often poorly worded, overly broad, misunderstood and ignored. We see a lot of unnecessary legal spend ...

According to Black's Law Dictionary, indemnity is "a duty to make good any loss, damage, or liability incurred by another." It's possible to limit the scope of that duty during contract negotiations.

Sarah Biser, a partner at McCarter & English, writes that often, the party to a construction contract with the greater negotiating power will require contractors and subcontractors to provide an ...

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