Liability Issues for Design Professionals

• Overview
• OnDemand Credit

Overview
It is critical that design professionals keep up with the major issues affecting their profession. These issues range from the more traditional ones such as standard of care, indemnity, and ownership and use of documents to the more recent issues such as electronic media, building information modeling and limitation of liability. The effect on the design profession of these issues is even more complex now because of the release of the 2007 AIA documents. Register for this OnDemand Webinar and get detailed information on AIA documents’ effect on design professionals and the changes to those documents on the important issues affecting design professionals. Don’t miss this critical opportunity for design professionals whether in large, medium or small firms.

Learning Objectives
• You will be able to explain the ownership of documents.
• You will be able to apply the standard of care and safety.
• You will be able to review the limitation of liability.
• You will be able to describe document retention in an electronic world.

Authors
Darrell S. Dudzik, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Self Study Credit - OnDemand Webinar

Agenda

1. Design Professional Liability Overview
2. Tort Liability and Defenses
3. Contractual Liability Concerns
4. Shop Drawings and Submittal Review
5. Indemnity
6. Professional Liability Insurance
7. Design Risk Management Concerns
8. Document Retention in an Electronic World
9. Use of New Design Technology
10. Closing Remarks