Step 1: Contextual Framework Pass (Facts)

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Facts:
Engineer A, a licensed professional engineer, is employed by engineering firm XYZ Engineering.
The firm was hired by a property insurance company to inspect and conduct structural assessments of residential properties damaged by a recent hurricane and to determine whether the damage was hurricane-related (a claim covered by insurance) or due to a pre-existing structural condition (a claim not covered by insurance).
Engineer A visits the residential properties and, following his inspection and structural assessment, prepares a series of reports for XYZ Engineering.
The majority indicate that the damage was in fact hurricane-related.
He then signs and seals the reports.
Supervisor B, one of the principals of XYZ Engineering and not a professional engineer, reviews the reports and asks Engineer A to make changes to some of the reports to indicate that the residential property damage was not hurricane-related but due to a pre-existing structural condition.
Finding no factual or technical basis for the requested change, Engineer A refuses to make the changes.
Supervisor B takes the reports and thereafter sends them to the client, the property insurance company.
Later Engineer A hears from residential property owners whose homes he had inspected and noted in his signed and sealed report to be damaged by hurricanes.
Those residential property owners advise Engineer A that their property insurance damage claims were denied because the signed and sealed report by Engineer A indicated that the residential property damage was due to a pre-existing structural condition.
There is no supplemental technical or other information to indicate any basis for the apparent alteration of Engineer A’s report.