Civil Litigation,
Construction
Aug. 8, 2017
Subcontractors and indemnity provisions
What happens when a subcontractor’s employees are injured on a construction project, sue the general contractor, and the general contractor (pursuant to an indemnity provision in the subcontract) tenders the claim to the subcontractor whose worker’s compensation insurance has already paid the employees?
Garret D. Murai
Partner
Nomos LLP
Garret is the editor of the California Construction Law Blog at www.calconstructionlawblog.com.
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Indemnity and insurance are the primary means of transferring risk in construction contracts. In Aluma Systems Concrete Construction of California v. Nibbi Bros., Inc., 2016 DJDAR 8607, the 1st District Court of Appeal addressed what happens when a subcontractor’s employees are injured on a construction project, sue the general contractor, and the general contractor (purs...
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