What about claims that unlicensed interior designers are putting clients in harms way on the issue of health, safety and welfare?
In fact, there has never been even one documented case that anyone has been materially harmed on these issues. Since record keeping began, only one suit was filed on grounds of health, safety, welfare or code violations that might lead to problems on those grounds between 1907 and 1982. Not so coincidentally, 1982 was the year the first state upgraded their Title Act to a Practice Act. Nonetheless, only three suits have been filed in the last 25 years, all of which were settled amicably. The REAL problem is the number of suits that have been filed against designers BY designers turning each other in! All other suits filed, and there really have been very few of those, have been based on contractual disputes, quality of product issues and similar issues.
