Client Alert

| February 4, 2008

Class Action in Italy

The Italian budget law of 24 December 2007, n. 244, in force as of 1 January 2008 (hereinafter the “Budget Law”) introduced into Italian Law a form of class action (azione collettiva risarcitoria, hereinafter the “Class Action”) for awards of compensatory damages or payments of amounts to multiple individual consumers.

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