Engineer A Regulatory Authority Proactive Disclosure Upstream Flood Risk
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/88#Engineer_A_Regulatory_Authority_Proactive_Disclosure_Upstream_Flood_Risk
Properties
Instance of
RegulatoryAuthorityProactiveRiskDisclosureWithoutClientAuthorizationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#RegulatoryAuthorityProactiveRiskDisclosureWithoutClientAuthorizationObligation
Case context
Client B directed Engineer A to proceed without the specialized hydraulic analysis unless requested by regulatory authorities, but Engineer A's professional judgment indicates material risk to approximately twenty upstream homes.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.83
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to evaluate whether the preliminary professional judgment that the tidal crossing upgrade may accelerate upstream home uninhabitability is sufficiently serious to require proactive disclosure to the applicable regulatory authority, independent of Client B's authorization, and to make such disclosure if the risk threshold warrants it — particularly given that Client B has directed Engineer A to forgo the analysis needed to quantify the risk.
Temporal scope
Upon determining that the preliminary risk finding warrants regulatory disclosure notwithstanding Client B's directive
Source Evidence
Source text
Client B directs Engineer A to proceed without the costly analysis unless and until such an analysis is requested by the applicable regulatory authorities.
Text references
Client B directs Engineer A to proceed without the costly analysis unless and until such an analysis is requested by the applicable regulatory authorities.
It is Engineer A's judgment, based on hydraulic evaluation procedures presented at a recent transportation agency conference, that the proposed project may result in some upstream homes becoming uninhabitable a decade or more earlier than would otherwise be the case.
TTL
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case88:Engineer_A_Regulatory_Authority_Proactive_Disclosure_Upstream_Flood_Risk a proeth:RegulatoryAuthorityProactiveRiskDisclosureWithoutClientAuthorizationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Regulatory Authority Proactive Disclosure Upstream Flood Risk" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case88:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Written_Risk_Notification_Client_B_Tidal_Crossing,
case88:Engineer_A_Preliminary_Judgment_Qualified_Disclosure_Client_B_Upstream_Risk ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case88:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Written_Risk_Notification_Client_B_Tidal_Crossing ;
proeth:casecontext "Client B directed Engineer A to proceed without the specialized hydraulic analysis unless requested by regulatory authorities, but Engineer A's professional judgment indicates material risk to approximately twenty upstream homes." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.83" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case88:Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_for_Climate-Driven_Flood_Impacts ;
proeth:discoveredincase "88" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-26T00:15:23.499283+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "88" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-26T00:15:23.499283+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Regulatory Authority Proactive Risk Disclosure Without Client Authorization Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to evaluate whether the preliminary professional judgment that the tidal crossing upgrade may accelerate upstream home uninhabitability is sufficiently serious to require proactive disclosure to the applicable regulatory authority, independent of Client B's authorization, and to make such disclosure if the risk threshold warrants it — particularly given that Client B has directed Engineer A to forgo the analysis needed to quantify the risk." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Client B directs Engineer A to proceed without the costly analysis unless and until such an analysis is requested by the applicable regulatory authorities." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon determining that the preliminary risk finding warrants regulatory disclosure notwithstanding Client B's directive" ;
proeth:textreferences "Client B directs Engineer A to proceed without the costly analysis unless and until such an analysis is requested by the applicable regulatory authorities.",
"It is Engineer A's judgment, based on hydraulic evaluation procedures presented at a recent transportation agency conference, that the proposed project may result in some upstream homes becoming uninhabitable a decade or more earlier than would otherwise be the case." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 88 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-26T00:31:11.064397"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 88 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
88
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-26T00:15:23.499283+00:00
First case
88
Generated
2026-02-26T00:15:23.499283+00:00
Attributed to
Case 88 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-26T00:31:11.064397
Generated by
ProEthica Case 88 Extraction