The adoption of broad-ranging indemnities is not always, however, the best tool for achieving risk apportionment. Ambiguity in the drafting of an indemnity clause presents a risk that the indemnity will not be held to cover losses, which they expected it to cover. Ambiguity is also a risk to the indemnifier that it will be held to cover losses that were not within their contemplation.
Ms. McClanahan was the youngest, by at least 10 years, of the four actresses who played the Golden Girls, well-dressed, clever-tongued, over-50 women who shared a house in Miami. The others were Bea Arthur (Dorothy), Betty White (Rose) and Estelle Getty (Dorothyâs mother, Sophia). Of the four, only Ms. White, 88, now survives.
As of this writing, Betty White is alive and well at the ripe young age of 93. She is the last member of the Golden Girls still alive. Estelle Getty died back in 2008, and Bea Arthur passed away in 2009. Rue McClanahan died in 2010, but earlier this year, everyone thought she had just died. That was an entirely different version of a celebrity death hoax, where the celeb was truly dead, but no one realized it had happened years before.