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Test drive The XL Insurance Contract Guide for Design Professionals with a sample chapter on CD.

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Download 9 chapters from The Contract Guide,
Professional Services Agreements: A Primer



CEU and PDH courses can be interesting, available online, free and relevant to your career. See for yourself by completing learning units created by XL Insurance and help your firm drive more profit to the bottom line. Check back for new courses to be launched soon.

Managing Client Expectations


What You Need to Know About Indemnities*

This on-demand, 20-minute webcast is designed to help you:

  • Understand how indemnity clauses can shift risk from one party to another
  • Explain to your clients that indemnities often seek to have the designer assume uninsured liability
  • Understand how, during the negotiation process, you can educate your client about having all parties accept responsibility for those circumstances they best control


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* Note to Viewers: This webcast was produced prior to the California Supreme Court rulings, Crawford v. Weather Shield Mfg (July 2008) and UCD v. CH2M Hill (January 2010). With these decisions the courts may have expanded the law dramatically concerning the application of contractual indemnity provisions in California.

The full impact of these decisions remains to be seen, but in any event, the conclusions reached by the Court should certainly be carefully considered because California precedents are often cited in other jurisdictions.

To find out why your contracts should 1) limit any indemnity obligations to claims that arise solely out of your own actual negligence and 2) expressly exclude the duty to defend, contact your agents.

To our XL Insurance Customers: Please refer to XL Insurance Trend Alerts, Crawford v. Weather Shield Mfg (October 2008) and UDC v. CH2M Hill (March 2010), for more complete information and contact your agent for further assistance.


Programs are registered with the national AIA, and units earned by architects are directly reported to the AIA by XL Insurance's Design Professional group. Engineers can, in general, use certificates of completion to self-report Professional Development Hours. Not all states and licensing boards accept these programs for learning units and some do not recognize the HSW qualification.