Engineer A Insurance Procurement Obligation — Pollution Services Post-Market-Normalization
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/108#Engineer_A_Insurance_Procurement_Obligation_—_Pollution_Services_Post-Market-Normalization
Properties
Instance of
PollutionServicesProfessionalLiabilityInsuranceProcurementObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PollutionServicesProfessionalLiabilityInsuranceProcurementObligation
Case context
The Discussion confirms that the re-entry of major professional liability insurers into the A/E market, including limited pollution and asbestos coverage, created an affirmative obligation for Engineer A to obtain such coverage rather than continuing to require client indemnification for ordinary negligence.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to procure available professional liability insurance — including pollution-specific coverage — once such coverage became reasonably available and affordable in the market, as the preferred ethical mechanism for protecting both his own interests and his clients' interests, rather than continuing to rely on client indemnification clauses.
Temporal scope
Upon the re-entry of professional liability insurers into the pollution coverage market, making such coverage reasonably available and affordable
Source Evidence
Source text
Most major professional liability insurers in the US today have reentered the A/E professional liability insurance market and many now offer some type of limited coverage for both pollution and asbestos-related services.
Text references
Most major professional liability insurers in the US today have reentered the A/E professional liability insurance market and many now offer some type of limited coverage for both pollution and asbestos-related services.
we are of the view that where such protection are reasonably available and affordable to the engineer to guard the interests of both the client and the engineer, barring special or additional circumstances, the engineer has an ethical obligation to obtain such protection and not seek indemnification from the client for ordinary negligence.
TTL
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proeth:sourcetext "Most major professional liability insurers in the US today have reentered the A/E professional liability insurance market and many now offer some type of limited coverage for both pollution and asbestos-related services." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon the re-entry of professional liability insurers into the pollution coverage market, making such coverage reasonably available and affordable" ;
proeth:textreferences "Most major professional liability insurers in the US today have reentered the A/E professional liability insurance market and many now offer some type of limited coverage for both pollution and asbestos-related services.",
"we are of the view that where such protection are reasonably available and affordable to the engineer to guard the interests of both the client and the engineer, barring special or additional circumstances, the engineer has an ethical obligation to obtain such protection and not seek indemnification from the client for ordinary negligence." ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
108
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T11:06:41.330232+00:00
First case
108
Generated
2026-03-01T11:06:41.330232+00:00
Attributed to
Case 108 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T11:14:44.160388
Generated by
ProEthica Case 108 Extraction