A team member put this into our project
$(function() { $(\"body\").bind(\"ajaxError\", function(event, XMLHttpRequest, ajaxOptions, thrownError){
Global events can be disabled, for a particular Ajax request, by passing in the global option, like so:
$.ajax({ url: "test.html", global: false, // ... });
Taken from: http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax_Events