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 ...

Hotel management agreements, like other commercial contracts, often contain clauses apportioning liability among the parties for potential losses or damages arising out of specific events or actions.

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 ...

Discover the hidden construction contract clauses that shift risk to contractors and subcontractors. Learn how to identify, negotiate, and protect your business from costly legal traps.

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 ...

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 ...

Law and Emergency Medicine is a new feature that will be appearing regularly in Common Sense. Articles will focus on legal, regulatory, and political issues that affect emergency physicians. We need ...

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 ...