This paper navigates through the civil liability legal theory in studying its economic effects. It aims at giving an insight of the Islamic system of liability. To do so, it begins with a brief introduction of what a liability system is through a glance at the experience of the United States in...

Class action, regulated by art. 140 of the Italian consumers’ code, is an important legal institution also related to pre-determination of payable damages.A recent class action, involving an Italian banking group, has been rejected by the Italian Court and provided the opportunity to address...

The investments in informational and communicational technologies in the health field represent a for of investing in human capital because health and medical services will exceed the physician – patient relationship and the improvement of the physical and emotional condition of the...

Law no. 678/2001, establishes special provisions regarding the judicial proceedings, with respect to investigating crimes of human trafficking, in two phases: the prosecution and trial. The reason for establishing these special provisions has its foundation in the nature of the crime of human...

Crimes of trafficking in human beings is the object of many internal and international regulations, also representing one of the new manifestation modes of the transnational organized crime. What is prejudiced by such a crime is the human person, considered both in it’s material and spiritual...

The extent of banks liability arising from Decree 231/2001 depends on the interpretation that will be defined by the case law with regard to the suitability of the organizational model introduced by the same Decree. In the meanwhile, the first Italian legal judgments have affirmed its...

I have made the presentation of the present legislative framework regarding the medical malpractice, starting from the first enactment of the Law regarding the reform within the healthcare in 2006 with further amendments and addenda (the latest amendment was adopted in 2010). It has herein...

The U.S. medical malpractice liability system has two principal objectives: to compensate patients who are injured through the negligence of healthcare providers and to deter providers from practicing negligently. In practice, however, the system is slow and costly to administer. It both fails...

The paper explores a monopolist's safety and output choices when there are potentially large-scale claims that can lead to firm insolvency. Analysis of a monopolized market yields different conclusions than models of rule choice where perfect competition or simple cost-minimization are assumed....