Florida contract law has two limited alternatives to protect parties from liability in contracts. Essentially, a force majeure clause is an agreement that allocates the risk of calamity away from the victim.If a party purposely causes an accident to stop them from completing a contractual obligation, then there would be no grounds for force majeure. Negligence. The burden of demonstrating force majeure is on the party seeking to have its nonperformance excused 30 Williston, supra, § 77.31 at n. The clause relieves both the employer and the employee from liability for not delivering on the duties as laid out in the signed contract.