McCarthy v. Turner Construction, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that common-law indemnification is typically only available to a party who is held liable solely by operation of law or vicarious liability
• explaining that common- 3 The present case does not involve any claims for express contractual indemnification. law indemnification is typically only available to a party who is held liable solely by operation of law or vicarious liability
• “[A] party cannot obtain common-law indemnification unless it has been held to be vicariously liable without proof of any negligence or actual supervision on its own part.”
• implied indemnity may be imposed “upon those actively at fault in bringing about the injury” but “a party cannot obtain common-law indemnification unless it has been held to be vicariously liable without proof of any negligence or actual supervision on its own part”
• indemnification in personal injury action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).