California's Design Immunity Defense: Why Your City Wants It and How to Get It

摘要

The design immunity defense offers an affirmative defense to liability for claims arising out of approved plans or designs for public construction projects. Your city wants it because it can act as a complete shield to liability. Your city can get it by: 1. Maintaining records of the plans for the public construction or improvement and the approval of those plans prior to the commencement of construction;