Many commercial real estate contracts – including purchase and sale agreements, loan documents, construction contracts, joint venture agreements, and commercial leases – contain an indemnity clause, ...

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 ...

Introduction - Construction projects are risky. Contracts allocate risks between the parties. Indemnification clauses shift risk from one party to another. Many ...

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 ...

Understanding Indemnification Provisions in Hotel Management Agreements Pryor Cashman partners Todd Soloway and Bryan Mohler discuss how hotel industry stakeholders attempt to address these competing ...

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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 ...

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