Nobody likes being blamed for somebody else’s mistake. Worse still is shouldering the financial burden on account of another’s wrongdoing.
Yet that’s precisely the position many contractors and subs find themselves in as the result of the presence of an indemnity clauses in their construction contracts.
To my way of thinking, it is fundamentally unfair to shift the entire risk of one’s own negligence to another party. As my Twitter feed has revealed over the last week or so, the state legislatures in Missouri and Minnesota are in the process of wrestling with that unfairness:
The good news for North Carolina contractors is that the Tar Heel State has a statute on the books preventing one party from shifting the entire risk of its own negligence to another.
