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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Public companies typically include provisions in their articles and bylaws that mandate indemnification of directors and officers. Often, these provisions include a statement to the effect that the ...

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.

In his Construction Law column, Kenneth Block discusses two recent developments regarding indemnification provisions in construction contracts and advises counsel for owners and contractors to revisit ...

If you’ve heard of the term indemnity, you may be wondering, “what is indemnity insurance?” Indemnity is an agreement between two parties in which one party is responsible for compensating another for ...