Common use of Responsibility for Damage and Tort Claims Clause in Contracts

Responsibility for Damage and Tort Claims. The Project Sponsor and the Project Sponsor's surety shall indemnify and save harmless the State, its officers and employees, from all suits, actions or claims of any character brought because of any injuries or damages received or sustained by any person, persons or property on account of the operations of the Project Sponsor; or on account of or in consequence of any neglect in safeguarding the work; or because of any act or omission, neglect or misconduct of the Project Sponsor; or because of any claims or amounts recovered for any infringement by the Project Sponsor of patent, trademark or copyright; or from any claims or amounts arising or recovered under the Worker's Compensation Act, relating to the Project Sponsor's employees; or any other law, ordinance, order or decree relating to the Project Sponsor's operations. So much of the money due the Project Sponsor under and by virtue of the contract as shall be considered necessary by the State for such purposes, may be retained for the use of the State; or, in case no money or insufficient money is retained, the Project Sponsor's surety may be held until such suit or suits, action or actions, claim or claims for injuries or damages as aforesaid shall have been settled and suitable evidence to that effect furnished to the State; except that money due the Project Sponsor will not be withheld when the Project Sponsor produces satisfactory evidence that the Project Sponsor is adequately protected by public liability and property damage insurance. The Project Sponsor also shall comply with all of the above requirements indemnifying and saving harmless the county, town, or municipality in which the improvement is made and each of them separately or jointly and officers and employees. The State shall not be liable to the Project Sponsor for damages or delays resulting from work by third parties. The State also shall be exempt from liability to the Project Sponsor for damages or delays resulting from injunctions or other restraining orders obtained by third parties except where the damage or delay is a direct result of an injunction or restraining order obtained by a citizen's action alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. 4331 - 4332, 23 U.S.C. 138 or Public Law 91-646. It shall be the Project Sponsor's responsibility to see that all of the contract operations incident to the completion of the contract are covered by public liability and property damage liability insurance so the general public or any representative of the contracting authority may have recourse against a responsible party for injuries or damages sustained as a result of the contract operations. This requirement shall apply with equal force, whether the work is performed by the Project Sponsor, by a subcontractor or by anyone directly or indirectly employed by either of them. It is the express intent of this provision that a Project Sponsor that is a county, town or municipality may and should contractually pass on this entire Responsibility for Damage and Tort Claims provision to any public and private entities with which it may subcontract any of the work covered by this State/Municipal Agreement.

Responsibility for Damage and Tort Claims. The Project Sponsor and the Project Sponsor's surety shall indemnify and save harmless the State, its officers and employees, from all suits, actions or claims of any character brought because of any injuries or damages received or sustained by any person, persons or property on account of the operations of the Project Sponsor; or on account of or in consequence of any neglect in safeguarding the work; or because of any act or omission, neglect or misconduct of the Project Sponsor; or because of any claims or amounts recovered for any infringement by the Project Sponsor of patent, trademark or copyright; or from any claims or amounts arising or recovered under the Worker's Compensation Act, relating to the Project Sponsor's employees; or any other law, ordinance, order or decree relating to the Project Sponsor's operations. So much of the money due the Project Sponsor under and by virtue of the contract as shall be considered necessary by the State for such purposes, may be retained for the use of the State; or, in case no money or insufficient money is retained, the Project Sponsor's surety may be held until such suit or suits, action or actions, claim or claims for injuries or damages as aforesaid shall have been settled and suitable evidence to that effect furnished to the State; except that money due the Project Sponsor will not be withheld when the Project Sponsor produces satisfactory evidence that the Project Sponsor is adequately protected by public liability and property damage insurance. The Project Sponsor also shall comply with all of the above requirements indemnifying and saving harmless the county, town, or municipality in which the improvement is made and each of them separately or jointly and officers and employees. The State shall not be liable to the Project Sponsor for damages or delays resulting from work by third parties. The State also shall be exempt from liability to the Project Sponsor for damages or delays resulting from injunctions or other restraining orders obtained by third parties except where the damage or delay is a direct result of an injunction or restraining order obtained by a citizen's action alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. secs. 4331 - 4332, 23 U.S.C. sec. 138 or Public Law 91-646646 (1971). It shall be the Project Sponsor's responsibility to see that all of the contract operations incident to the completion of the contract are covered by public liability and property damage liability insurance so the general public or any representative of the contracting authority may have recourse against a responsible party for injuries or damages sustained as a result of the contract operations. This requirement shall apply with equal force, whether the work is performed by the Project Sponsor, by a subcontractor or by anyone directly or indirectly employed by either of them. It is the express intent of this provision that a Project Sponsor that is a county, town or municipality may and should contractually pass on this entire Responsibility for Damage and Tort Claims provision to any public and private entities with which it may subcontract any of the work covered by this State/Municipal Agreement.

Responsibility for Damage and Tort Claims. The Project Sponsor and the Project Sponsor's surety shall indemnify and save harmless the State, its officers and employees, from all suits, actions or claims of any character brought because of any injuries or damages received or sustained by any person, persons or property on account of the operations of the Project Sponsor; or on account of or in consequence of any neglect in safeguarding the work; or because of any act or omission, neglect or misconduct of the Project Sponsor; or because of any claims or amounts recovered for any infringement by the Project Sponsor of patent, trademark or copyright; or from any claims or amounts arising or recovered under the Worker's Compensation Act, relating to the Project Sponsor's employees; or any other law, ordinance, order or decree relating to the Project Sponsor's operations. So much of the money due the Project Sponsor under and by virtue of the contract as shall be considered necessary by the State for such purposes, may be retained for the use of the State; or, in case no money or insufficient money is retained, the Project Sponsor's surety may be held until such suit or suits, action or actions, claim or claims for injuries or damages as aforesaid shall have been settled and suitable evidence to that effect furnished to the State; except that money due the Project Sponsor will not be withheld when the Project Sponsor produces satisfactory evidence that the Project Sponsor is adequately protected by public liability and property damage insurance. The Project Sponsor also shall comply with all of the above requirements indemnifying and saving harmless the county, town, or municipality in which the improvement is made and each of them separately or jointly and officers and employees. The State shall not be liable to the Project Sponsor for damages or delays resulting from work by third parties. The State also shall be exempt from liability to the Project Sponsor for damages or delays resulting from injunctions or other restraining orders obtained by third parties except where the damage or delay is a direct result of an injunction or restraining order obtained by a citizen's action alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. 4331 - 4332, 23 U.S.C. 138 or Public Law 91-646. It shall be the Project Sponsor's responsibility to see that all of the contract operations incident to the completion of the contract are covered by public liability and property damage liability insurance so the general public or any representative of the contracting authority may have recourse against a responsible party for injuries or damages sustained as a result of the contract operations. This requirement shall apply with equal force, whether the work is performed by the Project Sponsor, by a subcontractor or by anyone directly or indirectly employed by either of them. It is the express intent of this provision that a Project Sponsor that is a county, town or municipality may and should contractually pass on this entire Responsibility for Damage and Tort Claims provision to any public and private entities with which it may subcontract any of the work covered by this State/Municipal Agreementagreement.

Responsibility for Damage and Tort Claims. The Project Sponsor and the Project Sponsor's surety shall indemnify and save harmless the State, its officers and employees, from all suits, actions or claims of any character brought because of any injuries or damages received or sustained by any person, persons or property on account of the operations of the Project Sponsor; or on account of or in consequence of any neglect in safeguarding the work; or because of any act or omission, neglect or misconduct of the Project Sponsor; or because of any claims or amounts recovered for any infringement by the Project Sponsor of patent, trademark or copyright; or from any claims or amounts arising or recovered under the Worker's Compensation Act, relating to the Project Sponsor's employees; or any other law, ordinance, order or decree relating to the Project Sponsor's operations. So much of the money due the Project Sponsor under and by virtue of the contract as shall be considered necessary by the State for such purposes, may be retained for the use of the State; or, in case no money or insufficient money is retained, the Project Sponsor's surety may be held until such suit or suits, action or actions, claim or claims for injuries or damages as aforesaid shall have been settled and suitable evidence to that effect furnished to the State; except that money due the Project Sponsor will not be withheld when the Project Sponsor produces satisfactory evidence that the Project Sponsor is adequately protected by public liability and property damage insurance. The Project Sponsor also shall comply with all of the above requirements indemnifying and saving harmless the county, town, or municipality in which the improvement is made and each of them separately or jointly and officers and employees. The State shall not be liable to the Project Sponsor for damages or delays resulting from work by third parties. The State also State, also, shall be exempt from liability to the Project Sponsor for damages or delays resulting from injunctions or other restraining orders obtained by third parties except where the damage or delay is a direct result of an injunction or restraining order obtained by a citizen's action alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. 4331 - 4332, 23 U.S.C. 138 or Public Law 91-646. It shall be the Project Sponsor's responsibility to see that all of the contract operations incident to the completion of the contract State/Municipal Agreement are covered by public liability and property damage liability insurance so the general public or any representative of the contracting authority may have recourse against a responsible party for injuries or damages sustained as a result of the contract operations. This requirement shall apply with equal force, whether the work is performed by the Project Sponsor, by a subcontractor or by anyone directly or indirectly employed by either of them. It is the express intent of this provision that a Project Sponsor that is a county, town or municipality may and should contractually pass on this entire Responsibility for Damage and Tort Claims provision to any public and private entities with which it may subcontract any of the work covered by this State/Municipal Agreement.