Marco Bona
Marco Bona, member of the law firm Studio legale Ambrosio & Commodo with offices in Turin, is a personal injury practitioner who acts for plaintiffs only. He is involved in several cross-border litigation cases, including the recent AF 447 air disaster and the sinking on the 2nd of February 2006 of the ferry "Al Salam Boccaccio" travelling between Saudi Arabia and Egypt carrying 1,400 people (approximately 1,000 passengers lost their life). He also practises as an academic. Ph.D. in Comparative Private Law at Trento University. He has been teaching at Milano Bocconi University, Castellanza (LUIC) University and East Piedmont University (Novara).
Presently he lecturers at Turin Law Faculty in Ph.D courses. He is author of several articles and books on European Law, Tort Law, Personal Injury Compensation, Class Actions, Civil Procedure, Private and Procedure International Law.
Member of the Pan-European Organization of Personal Injury Lawyers, since 2000 he is the coordinator of the PEOPIL Academic Committee and a general editor of the PEOPIL Research Project.
Author and Co-editor of the books Personal Injury Compensation in Europe, Kluwer, Deventer, 2003, and Fatal Accidents and Compensation of Secondary Victims in Europe, XPL, London, 2005. In 2006 and 2007 he took part, invited as an expert by the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament, to the Commission's session on the proposal "Limitation periods in cross-border disputes involving injuries and fatal accidents" (2006/2014 (INI)) (Diana Wallis MEP) and to the Commission's Public Hearing on Road Traffic Accidents.
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