News & Milestones
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Wrongful life claim – first decision by a High Court
(Judgement of the 2nd Civil Division of the High Court of the Canton of Bern of 02.05.2011; Judgement ZK 10 569).
Commentary by Prof. Dr iur. Christoph Müller, University of Neuchâtel in the journal: “recht” 2013, issue 1, 46 ff.
To each his own trauma: medicalise society instead of self-help
Presentation paper of Rolf P. Steinegger at the 9th Freiburger Sozialrechtstagen, 06./07.09.2012, University of Fribourg.
Psychiatric patient jumps out of window - Canton liable
Commentary by Rolf P. Steinegger to the judgment of 29.12.2010.
Court issues freezing order on foreign assets in a marital dispute
By Rolf P. Steinegger
Whiplash - all in the mind?
In the SF Club (television panel discussion) of 31.08.2011, Rolf P. Steinegger took a stand in the whiplash discussion.
Tightened rules for the “whiplash business”
Trace how Swiss Federal case law tightened whiplash litigation since 2009.
Police officers feel abandoned by justice and politics
Your friend and whipping boy, in Berner Zeitung BZ of 21.10.2010, 5.
Why justice allows what cannot be
Rolf P. Steinegger, Zum Mysterium des "helvetischen Schleudertraumas" oder die Diskriminierung von organisch Geschädigten, Why justice allows what cannot be, in the celebration publication in honour of Erwin Murer, 2010.
Shortage of professors at universities
Shortage of professors at universities. Practitioners could diffuse the situation free of charge, in BernerZeitung BZ, 22.06.2010, 6.