Engineer Liability Indemnification Contract Provision
Rs · Resource
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/108#Engineer_Liability_Indemnification_Contract_Provision
Properties
Instance of
EngineerLiabilityIndemnificationContractStandard
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EngineerLiabilityIndemnificationContractStandard
Confidence
0.93
Created by
Engineering practice community during the professional liability crisis
Document title
Contractual Indemnification and Hold-Harmless Clause for Engineer Professional Services
Importance
high
Used by
Engineers providing pollution and asbestos-related professional services; evaluated by NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Used in context
Identified as the contractual mechanism engineers used during the liability crisis to require clients to indemnify and hold the engineer harmless for professional errors and omissions, particularly for pollution and asbestos-related services; the Board evaluates the continued ethical permissibility of such clauses given changed insurance market conditions
Version
Liability-crisis era practice
Source Evidence
Source text
many engineer were forced to practice with little or no professional liability insurance, or in some instances, as a condition of performing certain types of services (e.g., pollution and asbestos-related professional services) require clients to indemnify and hold the engineer harmless for the engineer's professional errors and omissions.
Text references
many engineer were forced to practice with little or no professional liability insurance, or in some instances, as a condition of performing certain types of services (e.g., pollution and asbestos-related professional services) require clients to indemnify and hold the engineer harmless for the engineer's professional errors and omissions.
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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case108:Engineer_Liability_Indemnification_Contract_Provision a proeth:EngineerLiabilityIndemnificationContractStandard,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Liability Indemnification Contract Provision" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Resource" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:createdby "Engineering practice community during the professional liability crisis" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "108" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:documenttitle "Contractual Indemnification and Hold-Harmless Clause for Engineer Professional Services" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T10:58:09.439831+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "108" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T10:58:09.439831+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:resourceclass "Engineer Liability Indemnification Contract Standard" ;
proeth:sourcetext "many engineer were forced to practice with little or no professional liability insurance, or in some instances, as a condition of performing certain types of services (e.g., pollution and asbestos-related professional services) require clients to indemnify and hold the engineer harmless for the engineer's professional errors and omissions." ;
proeth:textreferences "many engineer were forced to practice with little or no professional liability insurance, or in some instances, as a condition of performing certain types of services (e.g., pollution and asbestos-related professional services) require clients to indemnify and hold the engineer harmless for the engineer's professional errors and omissions.",
"the engineer has an ethical obligation to obtain such protection and not seek indemnification from the client for ordinary negligence." ;
proeth:usedby "Engineers providing pollution and asbestos-related professional services; evaluated by NSPE Board of Ethical Review" ;
proeth:usedincontext "Identified as the contractual mechanism engineers used during the liability crisis to require clients to indemnify and hold the engineer harmless for professional errors and omissions, particularly for pollution and asbestos-related services; the Board evaluates the continued ethical permissibility of such clauses given changed insurance market conditions" ;
proeth:version "Liability-crisis era practice" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 108 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T11:14:44.155003"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 108 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
108
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T10:58:09.439831+00:00
First case
108
Generated
2026-03-01T10:58:09.439831+00:00
Attributed to
Case 108 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T11:14:44.155003
Generated by
ProEthica Case 108 Extraction