Abstract
The Italian Supreme Court Judgment commented by the Author dealt with a case, where the director of a nursing home had been convicted of manslaughter. More specifically, the director was accused of having failed to put in place a proper alarm system linked to the doors' opening, which would have allegedly been able to prevent one of the old guests to access the stairs and to fall down, dying. The comment provides the reader with the relevant references to scholars' opinions and case law, focusing on causation in omission and on issues arising when a legal duty to prevent a specific event lies on more than one person.
| Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Note to Cass. pen., section IV, no. 11136, February 4, 2015 |
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| Lingua originale | Italian |
| pagine (da-a) | 675-685 |
| Numero di pagine | 11 |
| Rivista | RIVISTA ITALIANA DI MEDICINA LEGALE |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2015 |
| Pubblicato esternamente | Sì |
Keywords
- Causation
- Medical Liability
- Omission
- Organization
- Rapporto di causalità
- obbligo giuridico di impedire l'evento
- omissione
- responsabilità del direttore di una struttura sanitaria