La responsabilità medica in Francia

The relationship between liability, insurance and solidarity in the health sector has seen a significant evolution in the French legal model. In this context, fundamental is the incidence of the jurisprudencial and the legal forming which have helped to build an autonomous system of medical and health responsibilities. The cornerstone on which the French system of medical responsibility rests is based on the principle of faute, although, at the legal level, under specific conditions and for certain predetermined hypotheses, a indemnity procedure was set up against the solidarité nationale, in order to meet the need for effective protection of the injured patient.