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 ...

The indemnification clause is one of the most important provisions in a construction contract. It transfers risk from one party, the “indemnitee,” to another party, the “indemnitor.” The risk is ...

Indemnification clauses appear in nearly every agreement, but they are often overlooked as mere boilerplate provisions after the parties have painstakingly negotiated all of the other terms. It is not ...

Indemnity clauses are included in contracts to provide a means by which the contracting parties can shift the responsibility of risk. “Indemnity clauses can expand, limit or even eliminate the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the Nov. 29 print edition of Transport Topics. Trucking officials said efforts to enact federal legislation protecting carriers from overreaching indemnification provisions in ...

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