14 C.F.R. § 440.17 Reciprocal waiver of claims requirements.
Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space
(a) As a condition of each launch license, the licensee shall comply with reciprocal waiver of claims requirements as set forth in this section. (b) The licensee shall implement reciprocal waivers of claims with its contractors and subcontractors, its customer(s) and the customer's contractors and subcontractors, under which each party waives and releases claims against the other parties to the waivers and agrees to assume financial responsibility for property damage it sustains and for bodily injury or property damage sustained by its own employees, and to hold harmless and indemnify each other from bodily injury or property damage sustained by its employees, resulting from licensed launch activities, regardless of fault. (c) For each licensed launch in which the U.S. Government, its agencies, or its contractors and subcontractors is involved in licensed launch activities or where property insurance is required under §440.9(d) of this part, the Federal Aviation Administration of the Department of Transportation, the licensee, and its customer shall enter into a three-party reciprocal waiver of claims agreement in the form set forth in Appendix II to this part or that satisfies its requirements. (d) The licensee, its customer, and the Federal Aviation Administration of the Department of Transportation on behalf of the United States and its agencies but only to the extent provided in legislation, must agree in any waiver of claims agreement required under this part to indemnify another party to the agreement from claims by the indemnifying party's contractors and subcontractors arising out of the indemnifying party's failure to implement properly the waiver requirement.
Title 14: Aeronautics and Space
PART 440—FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Subpart A—Financial Responsibility for Licensed Launch Activities
§ 440.17 Reciprocal waiver of claims requirements.
