Construction projects involve high risk. Multiple contractors and subcontractors working on a project site—often with heavy equipment and hazardous conditions—creates the potential for significant injuries, property damages, and delays. To allocate that risk, indemnification provisions are standard in construction contracts. Whether you are a project owner, general contractor, subcontractor, or supplier, chances are your contracts have indemnification provisions that require you, or the party with which you are contracting, to provide indemnification for and a duty to defend against claims and losses arising from any negligence, breach, or other wrongdoing on the project. These clauses are often very broadly written to push down risk to lower tiers requiring indemnification for any type of loss or claim, regardless of fault. In this blog, we cover how construction contractors can identify and manage contract indemnification provisions to better protect their business from unnecessary risk and liability. Read more here.