Ohio Casualty Insurance v. Mallison

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a child would be unlikely to pursue claims if agreement required its parent to indemnify the defendant
• voiding an indemnity provision in a settlement agreement in part because a parent's duty to act \for the benefit of his child\ is \not fully discharged where the parent enters into a bargain which gives rise to conflicting interests.\
• in post-injury parental indemnification setting, reasoning that a child would be unlikely to pursue claims if agreement required parent to indemnify defendant
• indemnification agreement between parent and tortfeasor is void as against public policy since child would then be unlikely to pursue his rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).