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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 ...

One of the most negotiated and fundamental provisions in any contract is the manner in which the parties will allocate risk. Also known as an “indemnity” or an “indemnification provision,” these ...

If you are serving as an officer or director of a public company (or a large private company), it has never been more important to make sure that you have an aggressively protective personal ...

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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 ...

Michael C. Rakower and Melissa Yang write that in New York, directors and officers sued for actions or inactions taken in connection with their corporate post have another avenue to seek relief from ...

Contractual indemnification provisions provide an incentive to contract that often serves the interests of both parties. As a result, they are commonplace in all manner of commercial agreements. When ...

The Supreme Court has a steady diet of constitutional tort cases, in which plaintiffs seek money damages for public officials’ claimed violations of their constitutional rights. This Term is no ...

Your company may be targeted for a patent infringement lawsuit based on its use or resale of products made by a third-party vendor. Similarly, your company’s customers may be sued for patent ...