The Knock-for-Knock Principle under Danish Law - Sandroos ...

The Professional Standards – InContract• How will the court look at• The offshore industry (requiring highest levels of quality and safety)• Company• Contractor• Contractor: professional standard, e.g. fabricator of topside• Guarantees• Expert• Assertions of own competence• Level of technical ”ambition”• Negligence in QA/QC• Easily become ”systemic” failures – the responsibility of management• Quality processes• Defined• Implemented• VerifiedStricter standards• If causality between loss and lack of quality is demonstrated, burdenof proof is reversed01/12/2010 SANDROOS 13