Willful Misconduct or Gross Negligence definition

Willful Misconduct or Gross Negligence means such willful or reckless misconduct of either Party (or in the case of Government, any Person acting directly on behalf of at the direction of Government and, in the case of Project Company and Parent, any of their employees, agents, or Affiliates) in connection with this Agreement as constitutes a complete and utter disregard for harmful, foreseeable, and avoidable consequences, but shall not include any simple negligence or mistake or any error of judgment made by either Party in the good faith exercise of any authority or discretion conferred by this Agreement or otherwise. Should any Party be entitled to indemnity pursuant to this Article 20 of this Agreement, the indemnifying Party shall pay such indemnity to the other Party within forty-five (45) days of receipt of written Notice from the Party seeking indemnity stating the facts giving rise to such Party's claim for indemnification and the amount of such claim, including all reasonable legal fees incurred by such Party from such claim.
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Willful Misconduct or Gross Negligence means any act or omission that is authorized, undertaken or omitted with an intention that such act or omission will result in, or that is authorized, undertaken or omitted consciously with prior actual knowledge that such act or omission is likely to result in, or that is authorized, undertaken or omitted with reckless disregard of facts or law indicating that such act or omission is likely to result in, actionable damages, or other actionable equitable or legal remedies, or injury to any person or property, or material violation or material failure to fulfill the requirements of any Applicable Laws, Applicable Permits, Applicable EOI Policies, or any EOI contract, including this Agreement. The Parties agree that any acts or omissions of EquaGen that are authorized, directed or controlled by EOI in a situation where EOI has actual knowledge of the likelihood of injury, damage, or violation of Applicable Laws, Applicable EOI Policies, Applicable Permits or EOI contracts resulting from such acts or omissions will not be asserted by EOI as constituting Willful Misconduct or Gross Negligence of EquaGen. Likewise, authorizations or acts or omissions by EOI taken in reliance on advice provided by EquaGen or Support Personnel will not be asserted by EquaGen as constituting Willful Misconduct or Gross Negligence of EOI.
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Willful Misconduct or Gross Negligence means any act or omission that is, authorized, undertaken or omitted with an intention that such act or omission will result in, or that is authorized, undertaken or omitted consciously with prior actual knowledge that such act or omission is likely to result in, or that is authorized, undertaken or omitted with reckless disregard of facts or law indicating that such act or omission is likely to result in, actionable damages, or other actionable equitable or legal remedies, or injury to any person or property, or material violation or material failure to fulfill the requirements of any applicable Law, internal policy of the Service Recipient reasonably adopted in order to comply with any applicable Law, or this Agreement.
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More Definitions of Willful Misconduct or Gross Negligence

Willful Misconduct or Gross Negligence means an intentional, conscious or reckless disregard by Senior Managerial Personnel of any of the Parties, of good and prudent oil and gas field practice or any of the terms of this Agreement in utter disregard of avoidable and harmful consequences but shall not include any act, omission, error of judgment or mistake made in the exercise in good faith of any function, authority or discretion vested in or exercisable by such Senior Managerial Personnel and which in the exercise of such good faith is justifiable by special circumstances, including but not limited to safeguarding of life, property or the environment and other emergencies.
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Related to Willful Misconduct or Gross Negligence

  • Willful Misconduct means any act or failure to act with an intentional disregard of any provision of this Agreement, which a party knew or should have known if it was acting as a reasonable person, which would result in injury, damage to life, personal safety, real property, harmful consequences to the other party, but shall not include any error of judgment or mistake made in good faith.

  • Gross Negligence means any act or failure to act (whether sole, joint or concurrent) by a person or entity which was intended to cause, or which was in reckless disregard of or wanton indifference to, avoidable and harmful consequences such person or entity knew, or should have known, would result from such act or failure to act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Gross negligence shall not include any action taken in good faith for the safeguard of life or property.

  • Wilful Misconduct means intentional disregard of good and prudent standards of performance or proper conduct under the Contract with knowledge that it is likely to result in any injury to any person or persons or loss or damage of property.

  • Willful means any action or omission by the participant that was not in good faith and without a reasonable belief that the action or omission was in the best interests of the Company or its Affiliates. Any act or omission based upon authority given pursuant to a duly adopted resolution of the Board, or, upon the instructions of the CEO or any other senior officer of the Company, or, based upon the advice of counsel for the Company will be conclusively presumed to be taken or omitted by the participant in good faith and in the best interests of the Company and/or its Affiliates.

  • Misconduct means the commission of any act of fraud, embezzlement or dishonesty by the Optionee or Participant, any unauthorized use or disclosure by such person of confidential information or trade secrets of the Corporation (or any Parent or Subsidiary), or any other intentional misconduct by such person adversely affecting the business or affairs of the Corporation (or any Parent or Subsidiary) in a material manner. The foregoing definition shall not in any way preclude or restrict the right of the Corporation (or any Parent or Subsidiary) to discharge or dismiss any Optionee, Participant or other person in the Service of the Corporation (or any Parent or Subsidiary) for any other acts or omissions, but such other acts or omissions shall not be deemed, for purposes of the Plan, to constitute grounds for termination for Misconduct.

  • Sexual misconduct means any verbal, nonverbal, written, or electronic communication, or any other act directed toward or with a student that is designed to establish a sexual relationship with the student, including a sexual invitation, dating or soliciting a date, engaging in sexual dialogue, making sexually suggestive comments, self-disclosure or physical exposure of a sexual or erotic nature, and any other sexual, indecent, or erotic contact with a student.

  • Professional Misconduct means, after considering all of the circumstances from the actor’s standpoint, the actor, through a material act or omission, deliberately failed to follow the standard of practice generally accepted at the time of the forensic analysis that an ordinary forensic professional or entity would have exercised, and the deliberate act or omission substantially affected the integrity of the results of a forensic analysis.

  • Negligence means the failure to exercise "Reasonable Care".

  • Official misconduct means a notary's performance of any act prohibited or failure to perform any act mandated by this chapter or by any other law in connection with a notarial act.

  • Academic Misconduct means an act described in s. UWS 14.03.

  • Serious Misconduct means any misconduct identified as a ground for termination in the Motorola Code of Business Conduct, or the human resources policies, or other written policies or procedures.

  • Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results. Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion. As used in this definition, (i) “fabrication” means making up data or results and recording or reporting them; (ii) “falsification” means manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record; and (iii) “plagiarism” means the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.

  • Gross Misconduct means any act or omission of the Contractor in violation of the most elementary rules of diligence which a conscientious Contractor in the same position and under the same circumstance would have followed.

  • Intentional for purposes of this Agreement, no act or failure to act on the part of the Executive shall be deemed to have been intentional if it was due primarily to an error in judgment or negligence. An act or failure to act on the Executive’s part shall be considered intentional if it is not in good faith and if it is without a reasonable belief that the action or failure to act is in the best interests of the Bank.

  • Fraud means any offence under Laws creating offences in respect of fraudulent acts or at common law in respect of fraudulent acts in relation to the Contract or defrauding or attempting to defraud or conspiring to defraud the Crown.

  • Wilful Default means a deliberate act or omission which will result in (and can reasonably be expected to have been intended to result in) a breach of this Agreement and which, as soon as practicable, but in any event within 30 days after written notice (particularising the alleged breach) is given to the party alleged to be in default, is not either:

  • Willful Breach means a material breach that is a consequence of an act undertaken or a failure to act by the breaching party with the knowledge that the taking of such act or such failure to act would, or would reasonably be expected to, constitute or result in a breach of this Agreement.

  • Malfeasance means (1) any conduct, act or omission that is contrary to the Awardee’s duties as an Employee or that is inimical or in any way contrary to the best interests of the Company or any of its Affiliates, or (2) employment of the Awardee by or association of the Awardee with an organization that competes with the Company or any of its Affiliates.

  • Indemnified Amounts has the meaning set forth in Section 16.1.

  • Indemnified Liabilities has the meaning set forth in Section 10.05.

  • Indemnified Liability means any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and all related costs and expenses) arising from or relating to any claim, suit, proceeding, demand, or action brought by an Indemnified Party against you or a third party or other User.

  • Reckless means a situation in which the defendant was aware of the risk created by his conduct and the risk was of such a nature and degree that to disregard that risk constituted a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in such a situation. "Reckless" includes all, or nearly all, convictions for involuntary manslaughter under 18 U.S.C. § 1112. A homicide resulting from driving a means of transportation, or similarly dangerous actions, while under the influence of alcohol or drugs ordinarily should be treated as reckless.

  • Gross means the weight or the concentration contained in the discharge. (Unless a limitation is specified as a net limitation, the limitation contained in this permit is a gross limitation).

  • Breach of Duty means the Director or Officer breached or failed to perform his or her duties to the Corporation and his or her breach of or failure to perform those duties is determined, in accordance with Section 8.04, to constitute misconduct under Section 180.0851 (2) (a) 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the Statute.

  • Willful and Material Breach means a material breach, or a material failure to perform, in each case that is the consequence of an act or omission by a party with the actual or constructive knowledge that the taking of such act or failure to take such act would or would reasonably be expected to cause a breach of this Agreement.