Faithful Agent Notification Obligation Fulfilled by Company B Engineers
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/160#Faithful_Agent_Notification_Obligation_Fulfilled_by_Company_B_Engineers
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentNotificationObligationforProjectSuccessRisk
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentNotificationObligationforProjectSuccessRisk
Applied to
Company B employer notification of safety concerns in Company A's plans and specifications
Balancing with
Employer deference to design authority
Concrete expression
Company B engineers fulfilled their faithful agent obligation by notifying their employer that they did not believe the project would be successful as designed by Company A's engineers, and by pointing out the consequences to be expected from proceeding under the original plans and specifications.
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Interpretation
The faithful agent notification obligation here encompasses not just technical deliverables but the overall viability and safety of the project the employer has contracted to produce.
Invoked by
Company B Engineers Safety-Discovering Manufacturing Reviewers
Tension resolution
Notification was deemed sufficient to fulfill the faithful agent obligation; the harder question was whether refusal to proceed was also required.
Source Evidence
Source text
The engineers of Company 'B' fulfilled their obligation under Section l(c) of the Code by notifying their employer that they did not believe the project would be successful as designed by the engineers of Company 'A'.
Text references
The engineers of Company 'B' fulfilled their obligation under Section l(c) of the Code by notifying their employer that they did not believe the project would be successful as designed by the engineers of Company 'A'.
They also met the requirements of Section 2 in pointing out the consequences to be expected from proceeding under the original plans and specifications.
TTL
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case160:Faithful_Agent_Notification_Obligation_Fulfilled_by_Company_B_Engineers a proeth:FaithfulAgentNotificationObligationforProjectSuccessRisk,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Faithful Agent Notification Obligation Fulfilled by Company B Engineers" ;
proeth:appliedto "Company B employer notification of safety concerns in Company A's plans and specifications" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Employer deference to design authority" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Company B engineers fulfilled their faithful agent obligation by notifying their employer that they did not believe the project would be successful as designed by Company A's engineers, and by pointing out the consequences to be expected from proceeding under the original plans and specifications." ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:39:34.807820+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:39:34.807820+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The faithful agent notification obligation here encompasses not just technical deliverables but the overall viability and safety of the project the employer has contracted to produce." ;
proeth:invokedby "Company B Engineers Safety-Discovering Manufacturing Reviewers" ;
proeth:principleclass "Faithful Agent Notification Obligation for Project Success Risk" ;
proeth:sourcetext "The engineers of Company 'B' fulfilled their obligation under Section l(c) of the Code by notifying their employer that they did not believe the project would be successful as designed by the engineers of Company 'A'." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Notification was deemed sufficient to fulfill the faithful agent obligation; the harder question was whether refusal to proceed was also required." ;
proeth:textreferences "The engineers of Company 'B' fulfilled their obligation under Section l(c) of the Code by notifying their employer that they did not believe the project would be successful as designed by the engineers of Company 'A'.",
"They also met the requirements of Section 2 in pointing out the consequences to be expected from proceeding under the original plans and specifications." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 160 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:53:00.982899"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 160 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
160
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:39:34.807820+00:00
First case
160
Generated
2026-03-02T14:39:34.807820+00:00
Attributed to
Case 160 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:53:00.982899
Generated by
ProEthica Case 160 Extraction