Engineer A Boiler Case Conflict of Interest Assessment
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/129#Engineer_A_Boiler_Case_Conflict_of_Interest_Assessment
Properties
Instance of
Active period
From retention as forensic expert through disclosure to Attorney X and ongoing litigation
Affected parties
Attorney X
Engineer A
Engineer B
Retaining client
Technical society
Confidence
0.85
Importance
medium
Subject
Engineer A's assessment of whether his volunteer committee chairmanship creates a conflict of interest with his forensic expert witness role
Terminated by
Full disclosure to Attorney X and independent exercise of professional judgment
Triggering event
Question raised about whether Engineer A's committee role creates a conflict with his expert witness role in litigation involving subject matter within the committee's domain
Urgency level
medium
Source Evidence
Source text
there does not appear to be any conflict
Text references
Engineer A's role as a private forensic engineering expert should not present any clear or apparent conflict of interest
While there may be the potential for an organizational conflict of interest between Engineer A's role on behalf of the technical society and another professional or technical society
there does not appear to be any conflict
TTL
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case129:Engineer_A_Boiler_Case_Conflict_of_Interest_Assessment a proeth:ConflictofInterestState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Boiler Case Conflict of Interest Assessment" ;
proeth:activeperiod "From retention as forensic expert through disclosure to Attorney X and ongoing litigation" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Attorney X",
"Engineer A",
"Engineer B",
"Retaining client",
"Technical society" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "129" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T19:35:01.322580+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "129" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T19:35:01.322580+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:sourcetext "there does not appear to be any conflict" ;
proeth:stateclass "Conflict of Interest State" ;
proeth:subject "Engineer A's assessment of whether his volunteer committee chairmanship creates a conflict of interest with his forensic expert witness role" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Full disclosure to Attorney X and independent exercise of professional judgment" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A's role as a private forensic engineering expert should not present any clear or apparent conflict of interest",
"While there may be the potential for an organizational conflict of interest between Engineer A's role on behalf of the technical society and another professional or technical society",
"there does not appear to be any conflict" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Question raised about whether Engineer A's committee role creates a conflict with his expert witness role in litigation involving subject matter within the committee's domain" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "medium" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 129 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T19:54:29.975217"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 129 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
129
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T19:35:01.322580+00:00
First case
129
Generated
2026-02-27T19:35:01.322580+00:00
Attributed to
Case 129 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T19:54:29.975217
Generated by
ProEthica Case 129 Extraction