2011 Arizona Litigation News and Appellate Highlights
Arizona evidence rules have been amended effective January 1 2012. Evidence Rule 409 is clarified so that offers to pay medical and similar expenses caused by an injury are not admissible to prove liability for the injury.
Transportation Industry: Hold Harmless, Defense, and Indemnity Clauses in Transportation Contracts
Enforceable indemnity clauses have been the most dependable method for shippers to avoid responsibility for their own negligence and transfer that responsibility to motor carriers. Since motor carrier deregulation, and particularly more so in the last decade, shippers have gone a bit beyond the pale in drafting language that shifts almost all responsibility to the motor carrier.
