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The Importance of Indemnification Clauses in Managing Post-Completion Project Risk

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Claims against design professionals often pose unique challenges when such claims are dually rooted in both tort and contract theories, and therefore subject to competing time limitations. In order to reconcile these...more

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California Supreme Court Holds that Payroll Services Provider ADP Cannot Be Sued for Breach of Contract, Negligence, and Negligent...

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Can an employee sue the employer’s payroll service for failure to correctly process and report payroll? According to the California Supreme Court recent decision in Goonewardene v. ADP, LLC (2019) 6 Cal.5th 817, the answer...more

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Interpreting Indemnity Provisions in Construction Contracts

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Liability in the construction process is usually determined and allocated by contract. It is quite common for construction contracts to contain indemnity provisions requiring one party to defend and reimburse the other...more

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Ways to Make Sure the Indemnity Clause You Just Negotiated Is Not Your Enemy

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When indemnity is mentioned, most owners, designers and contractors think of protection from third party claims asserted by parties with whom they have no contractual privity. However, depending on the language used,...more

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Pennsylvania Federal District Court: Insurer’s Reliance on “Reasonable” Interpretation of Law Does Not Automatically Bar Bad Faith

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On March 13, 2017, the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, rejected the argument that an insurer does not act in bad faith if it relies on a reasonable interpretation of unsettled case law. The...more

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