Engineer A Fiduciary Advisory Duty
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/14#Engineer_A_Fiduciary_Advisory_Duty
Definition
Engineer A was obligated to act as a faithful agent of City B's interests when providing advisory services, placing City B's need for complete and unbiased information above Engineer A's own commercial interest in being engaged for construction services under the recommended delivery method.
Properties
Instance of
Case context
Engineer A was asked by City B's non-engineer City Administrator to provide professional advisory services on project delivery methods. Engineer A's recommendation favored the delivery method under which Engineer A could provide construction services, and the memo included promotional content about the firm.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.88
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to act as a faithful agent of City B's interests when providing advisory services, placing City B's need for complete and unbiased information above Engineer A's own commercial interest in being engaged for construction services under the recommended delivery method.
Temporal scope
Throughout the advisory engagement with City B
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Fiduciary Duty'
Matched Ontology Label
Fiduciary Duty
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
caseContext
complianceStatus
confidence
obligationClass
obligationStatement
temporalScope
textReferences
Relationships
obligatedParty
Agent Engineer A
prevailsOver
Engineer A Self-Serving Advisory Recommendation
derivedFromPrinciple
Engineer A Advisory Role Integrity
Source Evidence
Text references
City B's City Administrator asked Engineer A for a recommendation on project delivery methods for their upcoming wastewater system improvements project using a specific funding source.
Engineer A recommended Progressive Design Build. Accompanying the recommendation, Engineer A provided a summary of the firm's experience with Progressive-Design-Build projects and references from past projects.
Source text
City B's City Administrator asked Engineer A for a recommendation on project delivery methods for their upcoming wastewater system improvements project using a specific funding source.
TTL
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case14:Engineer_A_Fiduciary_Advisory_Duty a proeth:FiduciaryDuty,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Fiduciary Advisory Duty" ;
proeth-core:obligatedParty case14:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case14:Engineer_A_Self-Serving_Advisory_Recommendation ;
proeth:caseContext "Engineer A was asked by City B's non-engineer City Administrator to provide professional advisory services on project delivery methods. Engineer A's recommendation favored the delivery method under which Engineer A could provide construction services, and the memo included promotional content about the firm." ;
proeth:complianceStatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case14:Engineer_A_Advisory_Role_Integrity ;
proeth:obligatedParty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationClass "Fiduciary Duty" ;
proeth:obligationStatement "Engineer A was obligated to act as a faithful agent of City B's interests when providing advisory services, placing City B's need for complete and unbiased information above Engineer A's own commercial interest in being engaged for construction services under the recommended delivery method." ;
proeth:temporalScope "Throughout the advisory engagement with City B" ;
proeth:textReferences "City B's City Administrator asked Engineer A for a recommendation on project delivery methods for their upcoming wastewater system improvements project using a specific funding source.",
"Engineer A recommended Progressive Design Build. Accompanying the recommendation, Engineer A provided a summary of the firm's experience with Progressive-Design-Build projects and references from past projects." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T08:44:38.157284+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Fiduciary Duty'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass <http://proethica.org/ontology/obligations#Fiduciary_Duty> ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Fiduciary Duty" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "City B's City Administrator asked Engineer A for a recommendation on project delivery methods for their upcoming wastewater system improvements project using a specific funding source." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "caseContext",
"complianceStatus",
"confidence",
"obligationClass",
"obligationStatement",
"temporalScope",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A was obligated to act as a faithful agent of City B's interests when providing advisory services, placing City B's need for complete and unbiased information above Engineer A's own commercial interest in being engaged for construction services under the recommended delivery method." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A was obligated to act as a faithful agent of City B's interests when providing advisory services, placing City B's need for complete and unbiased information above Engineer A's own commercial interest in being engaged for construction services under the recommended delivery method." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T08:44:38.157284+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 14 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 14 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
14
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T08:44:38.157284+00:00
First case
14
Generated
2026-06-04T08:44:38.157284+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 14 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 14 Extraction