LEGALLY SPEAKING: Risk Transfer Gone Amok: Indemnity and Hold Harmless0

• Legally Speaking, Networking
• November 1, 2017

by Lee Brumitt, Esq., Dysart Taylor Cotter McMonigle & Montemore, P.C. There is no more prevalent or dangerous clause in a subcontract than the one transferring the responsibility for claims “arising out of” a project to the subcontractor. This provision routinely makes the “Killer Contract Clauses” list. Risk-shifting provisions by which subcontractors indemnify, hold harmless,