Contributing Third-Party Action Complicating Causation State
Class
89d580e3
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ContributingThird-PartyActionComplicatingCausationState
Definition
State in which one or more third parties — such as property owners — have taken independent actions (e.g., construction of impervious surfaces, installation of undersized culverts) that contributed to or exacerbated the harm being attributed to a professional's design, creating causal complexity that must be assessed to fairly apportion responsibility between the design professional and the third-party actors.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
State in which one or more third parties — such as property owners — have taken independent actions (e.g., construction of impervious surfaces, installation of undersized culverts) that contributed to or exacerbated the harm being attributed to a professional's design, creating causal complexity that must be assessed to fairly apportion responsibility between the design professional and the third-party actors.
Source Evidence
Source Text
One of the complaining property owner's driveway culverts was determined to have insufficient capacity for a 25-year storm event.
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
89d580e367d7c822...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
11
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-24T20:35:46.035088+00:00
First Discovered In Case
11
Generated
2026-02-24T20:35:46.035088+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 11 Extraction