Biography
Stefano Bertone coordinates the complex civil liability group of Ambrosio & Comodo.
He deals with maritime, aviation and railway disasters, defective products, environmental pollution, radiofrequency radiation, infections from tainted blood and plasma products, fraud and damage to consumers.
Ambrosio e Commodus is a member of various organizations, including the Global Justice Network (GJN), of which he is the current president, Pan European Organization of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL) and American Association of Justice (AAJ).
Such organizations are made up of lawyers and firms with experience in complex transnational judicial cases.
Ambrosio & Commodo has been and is involved in class and collective actions both on Italian, European and American soil in the most complex matters including defective products and drugs and mass disputes concerning medical devices and air and maritime transport systems with reference to various accidents. Before the Civil Court of Genoa as well as the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation and the European Court of Justice, A&C represents together with other colleagues from GJN, including lawyers Bona, Villacorta and Bellecave of BCV Lex, more than 1,000 Egyptian citizens who are family members of deceased passengers, as well as survivors, of the ferry Al Salam Boccaccio '98.
Together with colleagues from the same network, including lawyers from Pavlachis-Moschos in Greece, they represented the single largest group of victims of the Norman Atlantic ferry disaster which caught fire on the night between 28 and 29.12.2014, assisting relatives of 10 of the 30 victims as well as 120 of the 400 passengers survived; the civil disputes, instituted in Italy on behalf of Greek victims, were settled with the carrier, the ship's charterer, the shipyard and other responsible third parties. Between 2002 and 2011 Stefano and Ambrosio & Commodo also co-represented together with US lawyer Robert Lieff several hundred Italians involved in a class action before the Federal Court of Illinois against pharmaceutical companies Bayer, Baxter and others for HCV and HIV infections caused by tainted blood products, the case was settled for more than 95% of the plaintiffs in court.
Furthermore, Stefano’s firm assisted the plaintiffs Fascina-AAI who, together with ADUSBEF, filed and won the class action injunction against Philips S.p.A. and Respironics Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG in 2023 and 2024.
Chiara Ghibaudo mainly deals with civil liability, with particular reference to the protection of injured parties and consumers, especially in cases of blood-borne viral infections, damage from defective products, medical-health liability, road accidents.
Jacopo Giunta, too, deals with damages caused by post-transfusion infections; damage from electromagnetic radiation; assistance to victims of maritime and air disasters.
He is also responsible for the IT department A&C and carries out consultancy activities on data protection and has prepared technical/legal adaptation projects to EU Regulation 2016/679 for companies, multinationals and professionals in various sectors.
Matteo Chiavassa deals with legal assistance regarding data protection and the legal aspects related to data governance and the processing of personal data; he took on the role of collaboration as classroom tutor for the teaching support activity of the Master in Data Science for Business Intelligence, organized in 2018 by the Cognetti de Martiis Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Turin; he also was a speaker in dedicated events and he publishes articles in the online computer security magazine www.ictsecuritymagazine.com.