Design professionals have been warn...

Design professionals have been warned for years about the inherent danger of agreeing to open-end and unlimited indemnification clauses that clients may demand. A new Ohio case demonstrates the pitfalls of of that kind a clause.
The case involved a contract that an engineering firm signed with a city. It contained a clause providing that the engineer would uphold the city, indemnify and grasp it harmless from any claims or liabilities arising from its performance of the work, and pay any conclusion growing out of like claims.
The contractor claimed damages from one as well as the other the ...