TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Legal Research Digest 57: Tort Liability Defense Practices for Design Flexibility focuses on tort liability defense practices and cases involving the exercise of discretion in design. The report is designed to help provide a framework for determining potentially successful strategies to employ when defending design decisions made following the principles of context sensitive solutions.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2012. Tort Liability Defense Practices for Design Flexibility. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/14656.
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