Separate Responsibility. Each party to this Agreement shall be responsible for the acts, errors, and omissions of itself and it’s own officers, employees, and agents acting within the scope of the performance of this Agreement and within the scope of their authority.
Separate Responsibility. The NRA does not change a Participating Fund's rules regarding eligibility, except to the extent that a Fund is required to treat contributions transferred from another Participating Fund under the terms of the NRA as if they were contributed directly to the transferee Fund by an employer. Nor does the NRA require a Participating Fund to alter its rules regarding the nature, form, level or payment of benefits. Nor does the NRA make a Participating Fund responsible or liable for benefits payable by another Participating Fund. Rather, each Participating Fund is responsible solely for the benefits payable under that Fund's rules. No laborer or any other person can claim from one Participating Fund benefits that are payable from another Fund. Any dispute between a laborer and a particular Participating Fund is to be resolved in accordance with that Fund's claims and appeals procedures. Ordinarily, a dispute between a laborer and one Participating Fund should not prevent another Participating Fund from processing and paying the benefits to which the laborer is entitled from it. However, it must be recognized that some disputes may prevent the payment of benefits by any Participating Plan until the dispute is resolved; such as a dispute with one Participating Fund over the amount of a laborer's work credit or employer contributions with that Fund. Such a dispute could affect whether a transfer of contributions would reinstate the laborer's eligibility in his/her Home Fund.
