9. Indemnification.
(a) FPL agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, each officer and director of each Underwriter and each person (a “Controlling Person”) who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act or any other statute or common law and to reimburse each such Underwriter, officer, director and Controlling Person for any legal or other expenses (including, to the extent hereinafter provided, reasonable counsel fees) when and as incurred by them in connection with investigating any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities or in connection with defending any actions, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses or actions arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any preliminary prospectus supplement, including all Incorporated Documents, or in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 9(a) shall not apply to any such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses or actions arising out of, or based upon, any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement, or any such omission or alleged omission, if such statement or omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing, to FPL by or on behalf of any Underwriter, through the Representatives, expressly for use in connection with the preparation of any preliminary prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to any thereof, or arising out of, or based upon, statements in or omissions from the Statements of Eligibility; and provided, further, that the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 9(a) in respect of any preliminary prospectus supplement, the Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter (or of any officer or director or Controlling Person of such Underwriter) on account of any such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses or actions arising from the sale of the Bonds [of any series] to any person in respect of any preliminary prospectus supplement, the Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, each as may be then supplemented or amended, furnished by such Underwriter to a person to whom any of the Bonds were sold (excluding in all cases, however, any document then incorporated by reference therein), insofar as such indemnity relates to any untrue or misleading statement made in or omission from such preliminary prospectus supplement, Pricing Prospectus, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Prospectus, if a copy of a supplement or amendment to such preliminary prospectus supplement, Pricing Prospectus, Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (excluding in all cases, however, any document then incorporated by reference therein) (i) is furnished on a timely basis by FPL to the Underwriter, (ii) is required by law or regulation to have been conveyed to such person by or on behalf of such Underwriter, at
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