by Kent Holland | Mar 28, 2012 | indemnification clause, Newsletter Article
By: Michael D. Wilson, Jr. Gordon Rees, LLP 275 Battery Street Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 986-5900 In the period since the California Supreme Court published the seminal decision in Crawford v. Weathershield (“Crawford”) and refused to consider or...
by Kent Holland | Jan 12, 2012 | indemnification clause, Newsletter Article
Pursuant to a contractual indemnification clause, a trial court awarded damages of $810,000 in attorneys fees against an engineer in favor of a project owner, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., on a jury verdict of $48,600 in actual property damages. Wal-Mart’s first party claim...
by Kent Holland | Jan 3, 2012 | indemnification clause, Newsletter Article
Where a firm (Parsons Infrastructure) entered into a contract to design and construct a soda ash processing plant for Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp (KM) and agreed to provide KM with a defense and indemnity against losses arising out of negligent performance of its work, ...
by Kent Holland | Aug 2, 2011 | Newsletter Article
Where a developer of a condominium, and its design architect, were sued by a municipal equal opportunity housing opportunity council as well as by the state attorney general for alleged violations of not meeting federal and state requirements for handicap access, the...
by Kent Holland | May 23, 2011 | indemnification clause, Newsletter Article
Two employees of a subcontractor sued the prime contractor for their personal injuries resulting from a fall. The prime contractor in turn sued the subcontractor and the subcontractor’s insurance carriers for breach of a duty to defend and indemnify the contractor in...
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