Legal Issues with Obtaining Insurance for Large Transit Projects (2014) / Chapter Skim
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4 agement approaches for large transit projects; explain the types of available programs, policies, and coverage; discuss controlled insurance program advantages and disadvantages; identify legal issues and constraints; identify procurement and management issues; and conclude with a series of case studies of representative approaches taken by transit agencies. Preparation of this digest commenced with a review of relevant insurance guidebooks, studies, and reports, which are set forth in the footnotes of the digest.
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5 with their engineers, construction managers, and technical consultants, is, first, to identify and classify potential risks; second, to develop risk mitigation strategies; and, third, to allocate that risk to the project participants (or others outside the immediate project parties; for example, in the case of insurance)
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6 on public capital projects is design–bid–build. The owner contracts with a designer to produce a biddable set of construction documents, and the owner then contracts with the contractor to build the project strictly in accordance with those construction documents.
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7 contract terms or insurance policies that do not comply with such requirements. A good example is the so-called "anti-indemnity" statute, which as a matter of public policy provides that a party cannot require another party to indemnify it against its own negligence.
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