A covenant promise, agreement or understanding in or in connection with or collateral to a contract or agreement relative to the construction, alteration, repair or maintenance of a building, structure, appurtenance and appliance, including moving, demolition and excavating connected therewith, purporting to indemnify or hold harmless the promisee against liability for damages arising out of bodily injury to persons or damage to property caused by or resulting from the sole negligence of the promisee, the promisee's agents or employees or indemnitee, is against public policy and is void and unenforceable.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 62-6-123
Indemnify or hold harmless agreement invalid
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Planters Gin Co. v. Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. (2002)
Most recently applied in American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Co. v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (October 2017)
Acts 1976, ch. 822, § 24; T.C.A., § 62-624.
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Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.