Stefano Bertone
Ambrosio & Commodo Studio Legale Associato at Via Bertola, num. 2, 10121 Torino, Italy
Stefano Bertone is a personal injury and plaintiff lawyer for Ambrosio & Commodo (A&C) in Turin, Italy. He only represents victims and his fields of expertise are pharmaceutical/product liability, medical malpractice and maritime/aviation mass tort personal injury cases.
He leads A&C’s team on tainted blood transfusions, assisting several hundreds of people infected with HIV and/or HCV by contaminated blood samples. As part of this litigation, he has been involved in and won trials at the highest levels, from the Italian Supreme Court to the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg.
With regards to maritime cases, Stefano and A&C represent many of the victims of the Al Salam Boccaccio ’98 tragedy, a ship fire and sinking which caused the deaths of over 1,000 people, as well as many of the plaintiffs seeking compensation for the Costa Concordia incident, the famous capsizing of a cruise ship which caused 32 deaths.
He is a founding member of Associazione Italiana sul Danno alla Persona (AIDAP, Italian Association on Personal Injuries), a member of the AIDC – Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato (Italian Association of Comparative Law), PEOPIL (Pan-European Organization of Personal Injury Lawyers) and the AAJ (American Association for Justice).