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<br /> 5 <br />Self-insured retentions must be declared to and approved by the City. Attorneys have declared to <br />the City that they have a $250,000 self-insured retention for professional liability insurance and <br />City has approved that level. <br />Acceptability of Insurers <br />Insurance is to be placed with insurers authorized to conduct business in the State of California <br />with a current A.M. Best rating of no less than A:VII, unless otherwise acceptable to City. <br />Verification of Coverage <br />Attorneys shall furnish City with original Certificates of Insurance including all required <br />amendatory endorsements (or copies of the applicable policy language effecting coverage <br />required by this clause) and a copy of the Declarations and Endorsement Page of the CGL policy <br />listing all policy endorsements before work begins. However, failure to obtain the required <br />documents prior to the work beginning shall not waive Attorneys’ obligation to provide them. <br />City reserves the right to require complete, certified copies of all required insurance policies, <br />including endorsements required by these specifications, at any time. Attorneys may provide <br />redacted policies or specimen forms in order to prevent the disclosure of material Attorneys <br />deem confidential, privileged, or trade secret information. <br />Special Risks or Circumstances <br />City reserves the right to modify these requirements, including limits, based on the nature of the <br />risk, prior experience, insurer, coverage, or other special circumstances. <br /> <br />9. INDEMNIFICATION Attorneys agree to and shall indemnify and hold harmless the City, <br />its officers, agents, employees, and representatives from liability for personal injury, damages, <br />restitution, judicial or equitable relief to the extent caused by Attorneys’ negligent or wrongful <br />performance or conduct related to this Agreement. <br /> <br />10. CONFIDENTIALITY All information and documents shared with Attorneys as well as <br />all work performed by Attorneys in connection with this Agreement should be treated as strictly <br />confidential. Moreover, all communications between Attorneys and City shall be treated as <br />protected by the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine. Accordingly, <br />information received by Attorneys from City should be kept in a secure place, and no information <br />about this work may be disclosed to any third party without City’s prior written approval. <br />Attorneys shall provide materials directly to the City Attorney, Sonia Carvalho, or selected <br />members of her office, as directed by the City Attorney. All such information and any written <br />product in connection with Attorneys‘ retention under this Agreement, shall be marked as <br />“PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL / ATTORNEY-WORK PRODUCT” and shall be the <br />property of the City Attorney’s Office, and shall be returned/provided to the Office of the City <br />Attorney with all copies upon the request of the City Attorney. Confidential information disclosed <br />to either party by any subsidiary and/or agent of the other party is covered by this Agreement. The <br />foregoing obligations of non-use and nondisclosure shall not apply to any information that (a) has <br />been disclosed in publicly available sources; (b) is, through no fault of the Attorneys, disclosed in