SB220 Summary

• Prohibits road and bridge contracts from requiring a party to indemnify another party for liability, damages, or costs caused by the negligence, wantonness, recklessness, or intentional misconduct of the party being indemnified or its officers, employees, or agents.

• Allows indemnification provisions only to the extent that liability, damages, losses, or costs are caused by the negligence, wantonness, recklessness, or intentional conduct of the indemnifying party or its officers, employees, or agents.

• Prohibits requiring additional insured insurance coverage for claims arising from the second party's own negligent, reckless, wanton, or intentional conduct, and limits additional insured coverage scope to match the indemnity provisions.

• Applies only to contracts for planning, construction, repair, reconstruction, replacement, rehabilitation, or improvement of roads or bridges financed in whole or in part by state, county, municipal, or federal funds.

• Does not affect surety bond indemnities, insurer obligations, joint and several liability, workers' compensation laws, or contractual obligations to the Department of Transportation and other government awarding entities.