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.
Special to The Times. Estelle Getty, whose acting career bloomed late in life with her Emmy-winning performance as Sophia Petrillo, the wisecracking mother of Bea Arthur's character on the popular NBC sitcom The Golden Girls, died Tuesday. She was 84.