Legal Opinion
Tonking v. Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 2, 2004PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Rosenblatt, J.
This case involves a dispute over the scope of an indemnification clause in a renovation contract between the owner of a building and a contractor. The agreement obligated the contractor to indemnify the owner and, among others, the owner’s “agents” for certain claims arising out of the project. The question before us is whether a firm that performed management services for the owner qualified as the owner’s agent under the indemnification clause. We hold that it did not.
In 1999, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey entered into a renovation contract…
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