Nolde v. Hamm Asphalt, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that contractual indemnification is a viable claim, but “to the extent [a party] is arguing it is entitled to indemnification due to any imbalance in the parties’ proportionate fault, such a claim is contrary to Kansas law”
• noting that contractual indemnification is a viable claim, but “to the extent [a party] is arguing it is entitled to indemnification due to any imbalance in the parties’ proportionate fault, such a claim is contrary to Kansas law”
• “[O]ne who employs an independent contractor, as compared to his own agent, is generally not vicariously liable for the negligent acts of the contractor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).