Such indemnifications have occurred in the past.
Now, Salcedo, 65, is getting a crash course in terms such as discovery, indemnification and summary judgment, and faces a potential penalty of $4,000.
Moreover, the chapter addresses civil liability that can be charged to the engineer in the form of negligence or products liability and further addresses the way the engineer can protect himself from liability such as employing the use of indemnification agreements.
At a moral level, they don't deserve indemnification, much less payment of such princely sums".
Nor did personal assistants enjoy most of the rights and benefits granted to full-fledged state employees, such as health insurance, paid vacations, retirement benefits, indemnification for actions taken during the course of employment, and protection under the Illinois Whistleblower Act.
Jonathan S. Abady, a lawyer whose firm, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, has handled suits against the city and private agencies in cases involving abused and neglected children, said "there does appear to be a uniform indemnification provision" in the contracts the city has with such agencies.
Mr. Weiss may receive an "indemnification" for the painting, she said, although the sum of such a payment remains a matter for discussion.
Second, the agreements can be entered "on such terms and conditions as the mayor or such designees deem appropriate" and these terms include, importantly, "indemnification by the city".
Called directors and officers (D&O) insurance, these policies, offered by companies such as American International Group, Chubb and Ace Limited, are designed to provide reimbursement of costs incurred in defending a claim and indemnification for any judgment or settlement in a case.
But indemnification rights are not unlimited.
