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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 52: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 52.2

FAR 52.247-21 Contractor Liability for Personal Injury and/or Property Damage.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This clause makes the contractor responsible for any injury or damage caused by its vehicles, equipment, or employees while performing transportation or transportation-related services. It also requires the contractor to carry liability, property damage, and workers' compensation insurance, and to protect the Government from related claims.

Applies to: Contractors performing transportation or transportation-related services

What it requires

  • Assume responsibility for all damage or injury to persons or property caused by the contractor's vehicles, equipment, or employees and agents.
  • Maintain adequate public liability and property damage insurance at the contractor's expense during the contract.
  • Maintain Workers' Compensation and other legally required insurance for the contractor's own employees and agents.
  • Indemnify and hold the Government harmless against claims for damage or injury caused by the contractor's operations.

Key terms: Contractor · personal injury · property damage · public liability insurance · Workers' Compensation

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

As prescribed in 47.207-7(c), insert the following clause in solicitations and contracts for transportation or for transportation-related services:

Contractor Liability for Personal Injury and/or Property Damage (APR 1984)

(a) The Contractor assumes responsibility for all damage or injury to persons or property occasioned through the use, maintenance, and operation of the Contractor's vehicles or other equipment by, or the action of, the Contractor or the Contractor's employees and agents.

(b) The Contractor, at the Contractor's expense, shall maintain adequate public liability and property damage insurance during the continuance of this contract, insuring the Contractor against all claims for injury or damage.

(c) The Contractor shall maintain Workers' Compensation and other legally required insurance with respect to the Contractor's own employees and agents.

(d) The Government shall in no event be liable or responsible for damage or injury to any person or property occasioned through the use, maintenance, or operation of any vehicle or other equipment by, or the action of, the Contractor or the Contractor's employees and agents in performing under this contract, and the Government shall be indemnified and saved harmless against claims for damage or injury in such cases.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

← 52.247-20 Estimated Quantities or Weights for Evaluation of Offers. · 52.247-22 Contractor Liability for Loss of and/or Damage to Freight Other Than Household Goods. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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