Client Loyalty Tension With Public Welfare Invoked By Engineer Doe Contract Severance
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/18#Client_Loyalty_Tension_With_Public_Welfare_Invoked_By_Engineer_Doe_Contract_Severance
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Industry Manufacturing Process Client instruction not to write report
Regulatory reporting obligation
Balancing with
Proactive Risk Disclosure
Public Welfare Paramount
Concrete expression
Engineer Doe faced a conflict between client loyalty — including the client's instruction not to write a report after severing the contract — and the public welfare obligation to report findings to regulatory authorities; client loyalty did not override the reporting obligation
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Interpretation
Client loyalty operates within the ethical limit that public welfare is paramount; a client's instruction to suppress findings that bear on public health and safety cannot be honored
Invoked by
Engineer Doe Industry Process Evaluator
Tension resolution
Public welfare obligation overrides client instruction to suppress findings; BER concluded Doe had an obligation to report regardless of client instruction
Source Evidence
Source text
The client severed Doe's contract and asked DOE not to write a report.
Text references
The BER concluded that Doe had an obligation to report the observations to the applicable regulatory authority.
The client severed Doe's contract and asked DOE not to write a report.
TTL
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case18:Client_Loyalty_Tension_With_Public_Welfare_Invoked_By_Engineer_Doe_Contract_Severance a proeth:ClientLoyalty,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Client Loyalty Tension With Public Welfare Invoked By Engineer Doe Contract Severance" ;
proeth:appliedto "Industry Manufacturing Process Client instruction not to write report",
"Regulatory reporting obligation" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Proactive Risk Disclosure",
"Public Welfare Paramount" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer Doe faced a conflict between client loyalty — including the client's instruction not to write a report after severing the contract — and the public welfare obligation to report findings to regulatory authorities; client loyalty did not override the reporting obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "18" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T15:15:37.334010+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "18" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T15:15:37.334010+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Client loyalty operates within the ethical limit that public welfare is paramount; a client's instruction to suppress findings that bear on public health and safety cannot be honored" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer Doe Industry Process Evaluator" ;
proeth:principleclass "Client Loyalty" ;
proeth:sourcetext "The client severed Doe's contract and asked DOE not to write a report." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Public welfare obligation overrides client instruction to suppress findings; BER concluded Doe had an obligation to report regardless of client instruction" ;
proeth:textreferences "The BER concluded that Doe had an obligation to report the observations to the applicable regulatory authority.",
"The client severed Doe's contract and asked DOE not to write a report." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 18 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T15:25:32.291366"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 18 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
18
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T15:15:37.334010+00:00
First case
18
Generated
2026-02-25T15:15:37.334010+00:00
Attributed to
Case 18 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T15:25:32.291366
Generated by
ProEthica Case 18 Extraction