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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.
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).Entities:
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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Year: 2015 PMID： 26342285 DOI： 10.1007/s00414-015-1244-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Legal Med ISSN： 0937-9827 Impact factor: 2.686