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- 19/09/2016
Italian Health and Safety Law (Decreto Legislativo n. 81/2008) provides for the criminal liability of employers, directors, contractors and any person in charge with the supervision of works, in case of violation of regulations and procedures with regard to accident prevention. Jurisprudence had already stated that a contractor who subcontracts works to third parties does not automatica...
The deactivation of the certified e-mail address does not prevent the declaration of bankruptcy
19/09/2016As provided for by art. 10 of the current (Italian) Bankruptcy Law, individual and collective entrepreneurs may still be declared bankrupt within a year of cancellation from the Business Register, if insolvency appears prior to cancellation or within the following year. A summons for verification of the requirements for bankruptcy is served on the entrepreneur via certified e-mail. ...
Non–executive directors may be held liable for damages suffered by the company
12/09/2016Article 2392 of the Italian Civil Code provides that directors are held liable for damages suffered by their company, unless they do perform their duties with the diligence required by the nature of their office and by their own specific competence. Recently, the Court of Cassation has taken into account the issue of the liability of non-executive directors towards their company. The fi...
Towards the constitutional reform: lights and shadows
12/09/2016The attention of politics and legal and economic operators is now addressed to the text of the constitutional law – published on the Official Gazette n. 88 of 15th April 2016 - whose final approval is subject to the outcome of a referendum. The reform aims at amending the second part of the Constitution, by eliminating the current bicameralism in which both Chambers boast equal powers, cutti...
- 14/03/2016Commerciale EN
Un società in accomandita semplice proponeva opposizione avverso la sentenza che ne dichiarava il fallimento. Il ricorso non veniva tuttavia accolto. I giudici del merito ritenevano, infatti, che la scissione operata medio tempore, con il trasferimento ad una società di nuova costituzione di una parte del patrimonio della ricorrente, non aveva liberato la società scissa dei debiti tras...
Cass. Civ., Sez. III, 8.3.2016, n. 4540 (In tema di risarcimento dei danni e responsabilità medica)
14/03/2016Civile ENCon atto di citazione, dei coniugi convenivano in giudizio i medici e la struttura sanitaria ove gli stessi prestavano attività lavorativa per sentirli condannare in solido tra loro al risarcimento di tutti i danni patiti in conseguenza della negligente ed imperita assistenza medica, prestata durante la gravidanza. L'adito Tribunale, tuttavia, all’esito dell’espletata CTU medico-lega...
- 14/03/2016Fallimentare EN
Una società chiedeva ed otteneva l'ammissione alla procedura di concordato preventivo con cessione dei beni. Il Tribunale adito omologava la proposta approvata dai creditori e, successivamente, su istanza del commissario giudiziale ne liquidava il relativo compenso. Il già commissario giudiziale veniva quindi nominato liquidatore giudiziale, come da contenuto della citata sente...
