Upon further investigation, you learn that the walls and ceiling in that part of the hospital had been repainted three times during the past 12 months. The cause was a leaking water pipe inside the wall that, you believe, seriously weakened the wall. Certainly, you feel that the hospital personnel should have followed up on the signs of trouble. When you press the matter, you discover that the state funding for maintenance had been cutbacks severely during the previous summer, and though there was structural damage to the wall, there was no indication that it was unsafe. From the hospital administrators' perspective, the culprit was an old building combined with a lack of state funding for repairs, and they consistently maintained that the collapse of the wall was still "an unforeseeable accident."