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.
Estelle Gettyâs Changing Looks. Herb Ball/NBCU Photo Bank 1. 1985 The longtime stage actress (and one-time secretary) landed the role of a lifetime-Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls. Everett Collection 2. 1986 To play her 80-year-old character, the 63-year-old Getty wore a white wig and prosthetic wrinkles.