Mutual Indemnification and the Additional Insured Dilemma

Contract or third party manufactures are not wanting to name their clients, designers and inventors of products, as Additional Insured on their product liability policies because they do not want to be responsible for design or instruction/warning defect claims. A mutual indemnification can help secure additional insured status with the manufacturer.

Sub-Manufacturers and Suppliers Warranty Endorsement – One Scary Endorsement!

That’s one scary endorsement! The other day we were delivering a policy and we noticed an endorsement we’d never seen before. This endorsement is called Sub-Manufacturers and Suppliers Warranty or ES 98 100 05 04. We requested a copy from…

Why Manufacturers Refuse to Name Vendors as Additional Insured

A troubling dilemma More and more manufacturers refuse to name their clients as Additional Insured on their Product Liability insurance policies. Or, they go to the other extreme and require being named Additional Insured on their clients’ policies. This is…