Engineer A Competing Duties — Truthfulness vs. Attorney Reliance
Individual
a837bd78
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/107#Engineer_A_Competing_Duties_—_Truthfulness_vs._Attorney_Reliance
Properties
Parent
Activeperiod
From discovery of data inaccuracy through resolution by notification or proceeding conclusion
Affectedparties
Attorney X
Attorney X's client
Defendant
Engineer A
Public relying on integrity of engineering expert reports
Concept Category
State
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Stateclass
Competing Duties State
Subject
Engineer A's simultaneous duty of truthfulness and accuracy (requiring correction of the erroneous report) and duty of faithful agency to retaining attorney (whose settlement strategy relies on the submitted report)
Terminatedby
Engineer A notifies Attorney X and issues corrected conclusions, resolving the tension in favor of truthfulness obligation
Triggeringevent
Engineer A discovers data inaccuracy in submitted report while Attorney X is in active settlement negotiations relying on that report
Urgencylevel
high
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A discovers that the data upon which Engineer A based his report conclusions was inaccurate
Text References
Attorney X is in the process of settlement negotiations
Engineer A discovers that the data upon which Engineer A based his report conclusions was inaccurate
if the more accurate data had been used in his investigation, Engineer A's conclusions would be different
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Individual
Content Hash
a837bd78e1f31876...Last Updated
2026-03-08 16:29
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
107
Discovered in Pass
1
Discovered in Section
facts
First Discovered
2026-02-27T23:32:16.237756+00:00
First Case
107
Generated
2026-02-27T23:32:16.237756+00:00
Attributed To
Case 107 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T23:51:16.280287
Generated By
ProEthica Case 107 Extraction