Medical malpractice and health law

The Firm is highly specialized in the field of medical malpractice and health law. It represents and advises, in and out of court, health facilities and single physicians and healthcare professionals, as well as individuals suing for medical malpractice. Professor Ruffolo has been one of the first Italian scholars to tackle the legal issues of medical malpractice, and has also authored and co-authored several important publications in the field (most recently, “La nuova responsabilità medica”, Milan, Giuffrè, 2018).

The Firm represents victims of medical malpractice (surgical and diagnostic errors, breaches of the patients’ right to informed consent, pre-natal injuries, nosocomial infections, damage caused by defective medical devices, etc.) in disputes vis-à-vis health facilities and single physicians for compensation of damage suffered by the patients and/or their family members. The Firm assists the client in all aspects of litigation, in and out of court, also in the pre-trial phase, so as to try to reach an amicable settling of the dispute.

Furthermore, the practitioners of the Firm provide counsel and assistance also in favour of health facilities, both public and private, and healthcare professionals. In particular, the Firm assists health facilities in the drafting of all contracts pertaining to their activity, in the participation in tendering procedures for the supply of medical devices, in setting up and planning risk management and risk assessment procedures and structuring the related insurance coverage, as well as in managing all issues connected with data protection.

News and updates

News and Insights

05/02/2024

The Court of Cassation goes back to the topic of liability for nosocomial infections

With two recent rulings, the Court of Cassation has once again addressed the issue of liability for infections arising in a hospital setting, examining, on the one hand, the characteristics of the exculpatory evidence capable of exempting the healthcare facility from liability and, on the other, the relevance of the adoption of different mechanisms for preventing infectious risk.

Read

13/11/2023

Artificial Intelligence, Medical Devices and Law - Conference 16 November 2023 - State Attorney General’s Office

On November 16, 2023, Prof. Ruffolo will participate as a speaker at the Conference entitled “Artificial Intelligence, Medical Devices and Law” organized by the State Attorney General's Office.

Read

04/10/2021

Seminars on Artificial Intelligence and Law 2021

Also this year, in the months of October, November and December 2021, a cycle of seminars on "Artificial Intelligence and Law" will be held ib Bologna, organized by the School of Law and the Higher School of Legal Studies of Bologna and coordinated by Prof. Ruffolo. The first seminar will be held on October 7, 2021, from 3pm to 5pm.

Read

09/03/2021

Medical liability - Monographic section Giurisprudenza Italiana, issue no. 2/2021

Issue no. 2/2021 of the journal Giurisprudenza Italiana hosts a monographic section on medical liability, edited by Prof. Enrico Gabrielli and Prof. Ugo Ruffolo.

Read

08/02/2021

Class action and collective inhibitory action: the new volume edited by Prof. Ruffolo

Italian rules on class actions and collective inhibitory actions have been revolutionized by a reform (law no. 31/2019) whose entry into force, following several postponements, is now scheduled for May 2021.

Read

03/06/2020

Artificial Intelligence, Law and Ethics

The book “Intelligenza Artificiale – Il diritto, i diritti, l’etica”, edited by Prof. Ruffolo and published by Giuffrè Francis-Lefebvre, is now available.

Read

20/04/2020

Covid-19, contact tracing and privacy

As in China, Singapore and South Korea, a contact tracing app is also being developed in Italy. The app will be able, during the so-called "Phase 2" of the health emergency, to monitor the individual's contacts with infected subjects, based on the recording of the position of the individual’s smartphone with respect to other devices.

Read

13/03/2020

Covid-19’s impact on businesses and citizens

The current state of emergency relating to the spread of Covid-19 (“Coronavirus”), also following the measures adopted by the Government to contain the spread of contagion, places businesses, but also individual citizens, in the face of new problems, also of a legal nature

Read

23/09/2019

Innovation in healthcare: the role of Artificial Intelligence

On September 23, 2019 Professor Ruffolo is going to speak at the Convention and Round Table dedicated to the topic “Innovation in healthcare: the role of Artificial Intelligence”, organized by the University of Bari. Several others authoritative experts of the field are going to take part to the event, including physicians, engineers and entrepreneurs.

Read

24/05/2019

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: diagnosis and new medical devices

On May 24, 2019 Prof. Ruffolo spoke at the National Convention dedicated to the topics of “Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Imaging”, organized by the Italian Society of Medical Radiology. In particular, Prof. Ruffolo’s speech concerned the complex legal and ethical issues derived from the implementation of Artificial Intelligence in diagnostics, with specific regard to the questions of liability for physicians, hospitals and manufacturers of medical devices.

Read

15/03/2019

Prof. Ruffolo’s speech at the seminar on "Artificial Intelligence, medical liability and product liability"

On March 2019 Prof. Ruffolo will give a speech at the seminar which will be held at the University of Pavia, on the topic “Artificial Intelligence, medical liability and product liability”.

Read

29/10/2018

The new volume on the new medical liability, edited by Professor Ruffolo

The volume edited by Prof. Ruffolo on “La nuova responsabilità medica” (“The new medical liability”), published by Giuffré Francis Lefebvre, is now available. The book collects several contributions by different authors, almost all of which are professors of Ph.Ds., cooperating to the professional and scientific activity of the Firm, except for an authoritative external voice (M. Costanza).

Read

24/01/2018

Medical malpractice and the new reform – The position of the Court of Cassation

For the first time the Court of Cassation ruled on the new law on medical malpractice.

Read

20/12/2017

The Ministry of Health’s new guidelines on advertising of medical devices

On December 20, 2017 the Ministry of Health published the new Guidelines on advertising of medical devices, updating and integrating the previous guidelines of March 2013.

Read

15/03/2017

The new medical liability: evolution, perspectives and current issues

Liability from medical malpractice has been deeply changed by a law that will enter into force in March 2017.

Read
View all news
Informative

We and selected third parties use cookies or similar technologies for technical purposes and, with your consent, also for other purposes as specified in the cookie policy. If you close this banner by ticking or clicking on "Decline", only technical cookies will be used. If you want to select the cookies to be installed, click on "Customize". If you prefer, you can consent to the use of all cookies, including those other than technical, by clicking on "Accept all". You can change your choice at any time.