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130 Int'l J. Legal Med. 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/injlegame130 and id is 1 raw text is: Int J Legal Med (2016) 130:1-12
DOI 10.1007/s00414-015-1244-9

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Padova Charter on personal injury and damage
under civil-tort law
Medico-legal guidelines on methods of ascertainment and criteria of evaluation
Santo Davide Ferrara'  Eric Baccino2  Rafael Boscolo-Bertol  Giovanni ComandeO
Ranieri Domenici4  Claudio Hernandez-Cueto- Mete Korkut Gulmen6-
George Mendelson ' Massimo Montiscil  Gian Aristide Norelli8  Vilma Pinchi8-
Mohammed Ranavaya9 Dina A. Shokry' - Vera Sterzik   Yvo Vermylen'2-
Duarte Nuno Vieira3. Guido Viell  Riccardo Zoja4.-
Members of the IALM Working Group on Personal Injury and Damage
Received: 1 July 2015 /Accepted: 24 July 2015 /Published online: 5 September 2015
C Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Abstract 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 significant-
ly across the world. This manuscript presents the first
International Guidelines on Medico-Legal Methods of
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article
(doi:10.1007/s00414-015-1244-9) contains supplementary material,
which is available to authorized users.

Santo Davide Ferrara
santodavide.fenrara@unipd.it

Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and
Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50,
35121 Padova, Italy
2   Service de Medecine Legale, University of Montpellier, Hdpital
Lapeyronie, 191 Av. du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier
Cedex, France
a   LIDER-Lab, University Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza
Martiri della LibertA 33, 56127 Pisa, Italy
4   Department of Clinical, Surgical, and Molecular Pathology, Institute
of Legal Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Savi 10, 56126 Pisa, Italy
s   Department of Legal Medicine, Forensic Toxicology and
Anthropology, University of Granada, Avda. de Madrid 11,
18071 Granada, Spain
6   Department of Forensic Medicine, Cukurova University Medical
Faculty, Adli Tip Anabilim Dali, 01330 Balcali, Adana, Turkey
7   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

Ascertainment and Criteria of Evaluation of Personal
Injury and Damage under Civil-Tort Law. This consen-
sus document, which includes a step-by-step illustrated
explanation of flow charts articulated in eight sequential
steps and a comprehensive description of the ascertain-
ment methodology and the criteria of evaluation, has

s  Department of Health Sciences, Forensic Sciences Section, Institute
of Legal Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3,
50134 Florence, Italy
9   Division of Disability Medicine, Joan C. Edwards School of
Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, 1600 Medical Center
Drive, Huntington 25701, WV, USA
10 Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty
of Medicine, Cairo University, Kasr Al Ainy St. Cairo,
11562 Cairo, Egypt
Institut fiir Rechtsmedizin, University Julius-Maximilians,
Versbacher Str. 3, 97078 Wirzburg, Germany
12 The Catholic University Leuven, Capucijnenvoer 7,
3000 Leuven, Belgium
a National Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Coimbra, Largo
da Se Nova, 3000-213 Coimbra, Portugal
4 Department of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Legal
Medicine, University of Milan, Via Luigi Mangiagalli 37,
20133 Milan, Italy

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