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Generally the firm's insurance will cover an engineer since they are a "professional". Software "engineers" generally have not been individually liable for bugs. Usually the software user agreements don't allow for this sort of thing.

Basically, contracts can control the liability in most cases, but HIPPA prevents that by explicitly defining liability under the statute.

Here's some info on the engineer portion.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/professional-liability/liabil...