indemnify against

indemnify (someone or something) against (something)

To protect someone or something against something. One insurance policy can't indemnify you against everything, you know.
See also: indemnify
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

indemnify someone or something against something

to agree to protect someone or something against something, such as damage or a lawsuit. Their employer indemnified them against legal action. We indemnified the publisher against legal trouble.
See also: indemnify
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • indemnify
  • indemnify (someone or something) against (something)
  • insure against
  • insure against (something)
  • compete
  • compete against
  • compete against (someone or something)
  • institute
  • institute (something) against (someone or something)
  • institute against
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Website terms of use commonly require the user to indemnify against any third-party claims resulting from the consumer's "use of the site." TCCWNA plaintiffs contend that such provisions are invalid because indemnity requires some culpable conduct and consumers cannot be held to a strict liability standard for indemnity obligations.
Whether codified, or only part of the state's common law, there can only be insurance if there is an agreement to indemnify against a contingent or unknown event.
Malpractice insurance policies will neither defend nor indemnify against criminal offenses.
Nonetheless, a corporation may not indemnify against amounts paid to settle claims asserted by or in its right, or to satisfy obligations stemming from such claims.
Lindsay gets a job with an insurance company, but soon discovers her new workmates are every bit as crooked as the burglars and baddies whose handiwork they indemnify against. Amanda Redman, Danny Webb and Sean Pertwee star.
Lindsay goats a job with an insurance company, but soon discovers her new workmates are every bit as crooked as the burglars and baddes whooes handwork they indemnify against. Amanda Redman, Danny Webb and Sean Pertwee star.
Lindsay gets a job with an Insurance company, but soon Discovers her new workmates are every bit as crooked as the burgla ars and baddies whose handiwork they indemnify against. Amanda Redman, Danny Webb and Sean Pertwee star.
Lindsay gets a job with an insurance company, but discovers her workmates are every bit as crooked as the burglars and baddies whose handiwork they indemnify against.
Although standard errors and omissions policies already indemnify against professional negligence, such policies typically exclude property in the care of the insured party, or else have very low indemnity limits.
1953) (finding contract provisions which appear to indemnify against willful, wanton, reckless, or intentional misconduct by the indemnitee are contrary to public policy).
Second, took to insurance carriers to defend and indemnify against such claims.
The accommodator would generally be unwilling to incur any risk of loss as to this debt, requiring the taxpayer to guarantee the debt or to indemnify against loss.