Padova Charter on personal injury and damage under civil-tort law : Medico-legal guidelines on methods of ascertainment and criteria of evaluation.
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).
Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy. santodavide.ferrara@unipd.it.
Santo Davide
SD
Ferrara
Service de Médecine Légale, University of Montpellier, Hôpital Lapeyronie, 191 Av. du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295, Montpellier Cedex, France.
Eric
E
Baccino
Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
Rafael
R
Boscolo-Berto
LIDER-Lab, University "Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna", Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, 56127, Pisa, Italy.
Giovanni
G
Comandè
Department of Clinical, Surgical, and Molecular Pathology, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Savi 10, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
Ranieri
R
Domenici
Department of Legal Medicine, Forensic Toxicology and Anthropology, University of Granada, Avda. de Madrid 11, 18071, Granada, Spain.
Claudio
C
Hernandez-Cueto
Department of Forensic Medicine, Cukurova University Medical Faculty, Adli Tip Anabilim Dali, 01330, Balcali, Adana, Turkey.
Mete Korkut
MK
Gulmen
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.
George
G
Mendelson
Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
Massimo
M
Montisci
Department of Health Sciences, Forensic Sciences Section, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Gian Aristide
GA
Norelli
Department of Health Sciences, Forensic Sciences Section, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
Vilma
V
Pinchi
Division of Disability Medicine, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, 1600 Medical Center Drive, Huntington, 25701, WV, USA.
Mohammed
M
Ranavaya
Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Kasr Al Ainy St. Cairo, 11562, Cairo, Egypt.
Dina A
DA
Shokry
Institut für Rechtsmedizin, University Julius-Maximilians, Versbacher Str. 3, 97078, Würzburg, Germany.
Vera
V
Sterzik
The Catholic University Leuven, Capucijnenvoer 7, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
Yvo
Y
Vermylen
National Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Coimbra, Largo da Sé Nova, 3000-213, Coimbra, Portugal.
Duarte Nuno
DN
Vieira
Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
Guido
G
Viel
Department of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Milan, Via Luigi Mangiagalli 37, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Riccardo
R
Zoja
D035881:Compensation and Redress / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000592:standards; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000592:standards; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000592:standards
Civil law; IALM; Law of delict; Methods of ascertainment; Non-pecuniary loss; Pecuniary loss; Personal damage; Personal injury; Tort law