Padova Charter on personal injury and damage under civil-tort law : Medico-legal guidelines on methods of ascertainment and criteria of evaluation

Santo Davide Ferrara¹, Eric Baccino², Rafael Boscolo-Berto³, Giovanni Comandè⁴, Ranieri Domenici⁵, Claudio Hernandez-Cueto⁶, Mete Korkut Gulmen⁷, George Mendelson⁸, Massimo Montisci³, Gian Aristide Norelli⁹, Vilma Pinchi⁹, Mohammed Ranavaya¹⁰, Dina A Shokry¹¹, Vera Sterzik¹², Yvo Vermylen¹³, Duarte Nuno Vieira¹⁴, Guido Viel³, Riccardo Zoja¹⁵; Members of the IALM Working Group on Personal Injury and Damage

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¹ Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy. santodavide.ferrara@unipd.it.
² Service de Médecine Légale, University of Montpellier, Hôpital Lapeyronie, 191 Av. du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295, Montpellier Cedex, France.
³ Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
⁴ LIDER-Lab, University "Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna", Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, 56127, Pisa, Italy.
⁵ Department of Clinical, Surgical, and Molecular Pathology, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Savi 10, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
⁶ Department of Legal Medicine, Forensic Toxicology and Anthropology, University of Granada, Avda. de Madrid 11, 18071, Granada, Spain.
⁷ Department of Forensic Medicine, Cukurova University Medical Faculty, Adli Tip Anabilim Dali, 01330, Balcali, Adana, Turkey.
⁸ Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Suite B, 31 Albert Road, Melbourne, Vic, 3004, Australia.
⁹ Department of Health Sciences, Forensic Sciences Section, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
¹⁰ Division of Disability Medicine, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, 1600 Medical Center Drive, Huntington, 25701, WV, USA.
¹¹ Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Kasr Al Ainy St. Cairo, 11562, Cairo, Egypt.
¹² Institut für Rechtsmedizin, University Julius-Maximilians, Versbacher Str. 3, 97078, Würzburg, Germany.
¹³ The Catholic University Leuven, Capucijnenvoer 7, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
¹⁴ National Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Coimbra, Largo da Sé Nova, 3000-213, Coimbra, Portugal.
¹⁵ Department of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Milan, Via Luigi Mangiagalli 37, 20133, Milan, Italy.

PMID: 26342285
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-015-1244-9

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Padova Charter on personal injury and damage under civil-tort law : Medico-legal guidelines on methods of ascertainment and criteria of evaluation

Santo Davide Ferrara et al. Int J Legal Med. 2016 Jan.

. 2016 Jan;130(1):1-12.

doi: 10.1007/s00414-015-1244-9. Epub 2015 Sep 5.

Authors

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¹ Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy. santodavide.ferrara@unipd.it.
² Service de Médecine Légale, University of Montpellier, Hôpital Lapeyronie, 191 Av. du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295, Montpellier Cedex, France.
³ Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
⁴ LIDER-Lab, University "Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna", Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, 56127, Pisa, Italy.
⁵ Department of Clinical, Surgical, and Molecular Pathology, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Savi 10, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
⁶ Department of Legal Medicine, Forensic Toxicology and Anthropology, University of Granada, Avda. de Madrid 11, 18071, Granada, Spain.
⁷ Department of Forensic Medicine, Cukurova University Medical Faculty, Adli Tip Anabilim Dali, 01330, Balcali, Adana, Turkey.
⁸ Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Suite B, 31 Albert Road, Melbourne, Vic, 3004, Australia.
⁹ Department of Health Sciences, Forensic Sciences Section, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
¹⁰ Division of Disability Medicine, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, 1600 Medical Center Drive, Huntington, 25701, WV, USA.
¹¹ Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Kasr Al Ainy St. Cairo, 11562, Cairo, Egypt.
¹² Institut für Rechtsmedizin, University Julius-Maximilians, Versbacher Str. 3, 97078, Würzburg, Germany.
¹³ The Catholic University Leuven, Capucijnenvoer 7, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
¹⁴ National Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Coimbra, Largo da Sé Nova, 3000-213, Coimbra, Portugal.
¹⁵ Department of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Milan, Via Luigi Mangiagalli 37, 20133, Milan, Italy.

PMID: 26342285
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-015-1244-9

Abstract

Compensation for personal damage, defined as any pecuniary or non-pecuniary loss causally related to a personal injury under civil-tort law, is strictly based on the local jurisdiction and therefore varies significantly across the world. This manuscript presents the first "International Guidelines on Medico-Legal Methods of Ascertainment and Criteria of Evaluation of Personal Injury and Damage under Civil-Tort Law". This consensus document, which includes a step-by-step illustrated explanation of flow charts articulated in eight sequential steps and a comprehensive description of the ascertainment methodology and the criteria of evaluation, has been developed by an International Working Group composed of juridical and medico-legal experts and adopted as Guidelines by the International Academy of Legal Medicine (IALM).

Keywords: Civil law; IALM; Law of delict; Methods of ascertainment; Non-pecuniary loss; Pecuniary loss; Personal damage; Personal injury; Tort law.

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