Indemnification and Advancement Through an Agency Lens

Authors

Deborah A. DeMott, Duke Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Keywords

agency, corporations, model business corporation act

Abstract

DeMott discusses the doctrines that define entitlements to indemnification. In the corporate context, indemnification is better grounded, as in the Model Business Corporation Act (MBCA), in the necessity of furnishing corporate directors with appropriate protection against personal risk. To be sure, as the MBCA's official comments implicitly acknowledge, the position of officers, especially senior executive officers, does not fit neatly and exclusively into either an "agent" or a "non-agent" category for indemnification purposes.

Citation

Deborah A DeMott, Indemnification and Advancement Through an Agency Lens, 74 Law and Contemporary Problems 175-188 (2011)