General Insurance Co. of America v. P. S. Lord Mechanical Contractors

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting, for example, that indemnity is appropriate where one party is simply vicariously liable for the negligence of another, but indemnity is inappropriate where the negligence of two tortfeasors without any legal relationship to one another combines to cause injury to a third party
• “The words ‘passive’ versus ‘active’ and ‘secondary’ versus ‘primary’ are not sufficiently precise to provide clear guidelines for this area.”
• one party “was an active, positive and primary participant” and therefore had to indemnify the other party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).