Liability for Damages 1. The Purchaser shall be liable for any damages sustained by the State arising from Purchaser’s breach of the terms of this Contract and the State may cause all or part of the performance bond to be forfeited to recover such damages. 2. In the event that a portion of the timber sale under this Contract is resold as a result of the Purchaser’s forfeiture and the stumpage rate pursuant to the resold contract is lower than the stumpage rate provided herein, the difference between the original rate and the new rate shall be considered damages and the Purchaser shall be liable to the State for those damages. The State may cause all or part of the Purchaser’s performance bond to be forfeited to recover such damages.
HOLD HARMLESS/INDEMNIFICATION (a) Contractor promises to and shall defend, indemnify, save, and hold harmless the indemnitees from the liabilities as defined in this section. (b) The indemnitees benefitted and protected by this promise are the Public Agency and its elective and appointive boards, commissions, officers, agents, and employees, together with any additional persons and entities, if any, listed in the Supplementary General Conditions. (c) The liabilities protected against are any and all claims, demands, causes of action, damages, costs, expenses, actual attorneys’ fees, losses, or liabilities arising out of or in connection with the actions defined below for personal injury, sickness, disease, emotional injury, death, property damage (including loss of use), trespass, nuisance, inverse condemnation, patent infringement, or any combination of these, regardless of whether or not such liability, claim, or damage was foreseeable at any time before the Public Agency approved the improvement plans or accepted the improvements as completed, and including the defense of any suit(s) or action(s) at law or equity concerning these. (d) The actions causing liability are any act or omission (negligent or non-negligent) in connection with the matters covered by this contract and attributable to the Contractor, subcontractor(s), supplier(s), trucker(s), anyone for whose acts the Contractor may be liable, or any officer(s), agent(s) or employee(s) of one or more of them. (e) The promise and agreement in this section is not conditioned or dependent on whether or not any indemnitee has prepared, supplied, or approved any plan(s), drawing(s), specification(s), or special provision(s) in connection with this work or has insurance or other indemnification covering any of these matters. (f) Except as prohibited by Civil Code Section 2782, the Contractor’s obligations under this section shall exist regardless of the existence or degree of fault of the Public Agency or any indemnitee. (g) The Contractor’s obligations under this section shall extend to claims arising after the work is completed and accepted if the claims are related to alleged acts or omissions that occurred during the course of the work. Public Agency’s inspection is not a waiver of full compliance with these requirements. (h) The Contractor and the Contractor’s insurance carrier(s) shall respond within 15 days to the tender of any claim for defense and indemnity by the Public Agency, unless this time has been extended by the Public Agency. (i) With respect to third-party claims against the Contractor, the Contractor waives all rights of any kind to express or implied indemnity against the indemnitees. (j) Nothing in this section is intended to establish a standard of care owed to any third party or to extend to any third party the status of a third-party beneficiary.