Appeals court is slated to decide w...

Appeals court is slated to decide whether a design firm acting as a CM is responsible for construction safety

The lines have been drawn, the briefs filed and the stage station for a significant court decision forward the question of liability in all senses of design professionals for worker safety.

The issue is a long-standing united but it now has followed in a test case that may determine the length to which design firms may be perceived obliged to assume more command and greater responsibility for worker safety.

The case arose from a 1988 funnel explosion in Milwaukee in which a large