You can’t sue me for being a bad architect — because I’m not an architect at all.
That’s the nervy claim a Manhattan man made when he was accused of ripping off a billionaire motel mogul and his yoga-instructor wife for $145,000 in bogus costs tied to the botched renovation of their Bahamian vacation home, a new Manhattan lawsuit charges.
— nypost.com
Some valuable (albeit obvious) lessons here: don't hire an architect (licensed or otherwise) whose qualifications are unclear, and anyone can be found guilty of "malpractice", regardless of whether they're officially a professional member of that practicing field.
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In Oregon, he'd be f---ed.
ORS 12.135.
Exemption or architectural license is not an exemption from a lawsuit of tort, negligence or contract.
any publicity is good publicity?
LOL
But there is always another side to the story. Plenty of overloaded clients use litigation to get out of fees.
That is true, Miles. There is another side to the story.
Does the facts differ. There is always many stories but one factual course of what happened.
if i was wealthy and not intelligent i would hire intelligent people to help me choose my architect, but i am not wealthy, just intelligent, apparently those two have nothing to do with each other......i am with Miles here,they probably hired the guy knowing full well what he was and if they needed to dump the blame on somebody for whatever reason they chose him. of course he thought he was smart telling them what he was not, but that did not pan out well clearly. so lets say this case went to supreme court would this clearly indicate a Construction Manager has no duty to be professional while the Architect who earns considerably less must remain professional? again money has nothing to do with accountability,professionalism, code of ethics etc.........then NO one would ever become an architect,is that where we are headed? fuck malpractice, just dont officially practice.
anyone can get sued...this is Merica!
Yep.
Oddly enough, the project is not in the United States and I bet the Bahamas does not require a license for anything. Therefore, this guy is just as good as anyone else.
http://www.bahamasarchitects.com/requirements.html
Since the project is not in the United States, this is not a jurisdiction of the United States courts but that of the Bahamian courts in connection with a foreign person practicing and engaging business in Bahamas and practicing architecture in Bahamas.
A visa may not be required if the person designing project is a U.S. citizen and does the design in the U.S. but he/she is still subject to the laws of the Bahama.
Engaging business & providing services for a project in a foreign country still means the person must comply with applicable laws and still be subject to the legal authority of that country.
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