Revised N.C. Gen. Stat. § 22B-1 Will Go Into Effect August 1st

Jacob Wellman

Among the bills to emerge from the ongoing 2019 session of the North Carolina General Assembly is a structural and substantive revision of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 22B-1, which invalidates certain indemnity agreements in the construction industry.  Among the substantive revisions are a new subsection (b) deems invalid any indemnity agreement unless “the fault of…