American Building Maintenance Co. v. L'Enfant Plaza Properties, Inc.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Invoking different provisions in the same indemnification agreement, each of two successful defendants in a “slip-and-fall” lawsuit has sought payment of its counsel fees from its codefendant. Each defendant has denied, on the other hand, that it has any obligation to indemnify its codefendant for the code-fendant’s counsel fees. We hold that under the terms of the parties’ contract, properly construed, neither party has a right to indemnification.

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L’Enfant Plaza Properties, Inc. and Loews Washington Hotel Corp. (collectively L’En-fant) 1 own and manage the L’Enfant…