Steering clear of tort claims

Article Abstract:

Highway engineers are susceptible to the rising incidence of tort claims. This has made them more cautious in their design because conventional defenses such as design immunity and economic constraints have been successfully contested in court cases. The highway engineer must therefore weigh all design considerations carefully, keep a record of his design concepts and justifications and evaluate the safety and cost-effectiveness of designs in order to apply the best alternative. He should not, however sacrifice innovation and creativity just to avoid tort liabilities.

Road construction industry, Malpractice, Engineers, Tort liability, Tort liability of highway departments, Highway departments

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Way clear (almost) for California toll road

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Construction of the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor will begin in Jul 1993. The California Transportation Corridor Agencies will own and operate the 15-mile tollway. The project is being financed by a $1.1 billion bond offering and will be repaid by toll revenues. The tollway will have six lanes including an 88-ft median for high-occupancy lanes or light transit. Initial construction work will deal withenvironmental mitigation and the majority of the road construction will be donefrom 1994 to 1996.

Planning, Public works, Toll roads, Orange County, California

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Tort liability: limiting US innovation

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Litigation concerns, particularly tort liability, aggravates US inability tocapitalize on research capabilities. This fear acts as a strong disincentive to the introduction of new innovations. A comparison of the construction industries in the US and Japan reveals these barriers. With this situation, the federal government is expected to take the lead in averting this problem by absorbing more the financial risks associated with innovation.

United States, Tort reform

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