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There are four types of indemnifications

we routinely encounter in health-related sponsored research agreements. They are listed below, in order from the least comprehensive (least coverage) to the most comprehensive (most coverage):

  1. Use of Results
  2. Sponsor Negligence
  3. Product Liability
  4. Full Indemnity

A full indemnity contains language that is either broad enough to cover or expressly covers all the other possible lesser types of indemnification; similarly, the product liability and negligence indemnities expressly cover the lesser use of results indemnity.

To analyze the facts that determine what scope of indemnification your study requires,

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