Law and Medicine. Current topics in a German and Italian perspective

The issues of professional liability and insurance coverage for medical doctors are presently receiving increasing attention in both Germany and Italy. Controversies in this area, for years at the heart of the academic debate, involve experts from different fields and have a strong impact on public opinion, due to the significance of the involved interests. This volume presents contributions delivered by Italian and German senior and junior scientists at the International Workshop “Law and Medicine”, jointly organized in Naples by the Federico II University of Naples and the Freie Universität Berlin. The two-day workshop covered a wide range of topics but mainly focused on the issues of medical liability and insurance contracts and revealed striking similarities between the Italian and the German systems. The international exchange has been be instrumental to the identification of adequate solutions to the complex problems occurring in medical practice and will, in the future, help improving relationships between physicians, their patients and insurance companies.