Disease Liability

Disease Liability

Yes, this is a thing, probably borne out of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. In the following exemplar, the client releases the contractor from any liability for infecting client personnel with a communicable disease via exposure to the contractor’s personnel:

Exemplar C26-1

Client acknowledges that there is an inherent risk of exposure to infectious diseases associated with any in-person interaction or in-person visit to property. Accordingly, Client, for itself and its successors and assigns, hereby releases Company and each of Company’s officers, directors, partners, members, managers, employees, affiliated, parent or subsidiary entities, and approved third-party service providers (collectively, “Company Persons”) from any and all claims or causes of action that Client has, or hereafter may or shall have, against any of them in connection with, related to, or arising out of infectious diseases or the transmission thereof associated with a visit by one or more of the Company Persons to any Client facility(ies) or other in-person interaction with Client personnel, provided that such Company Persons comply with and adhere to Client’s policies and procedures that Client has implemented relating to workplace safety and the prevention of the transmission of disease at its facility(ies).