We carry two essential points of the Civil Court of Cassation, of 20 July 2010, n.16896 – risarcimento del danno patito dalla casalinga – determining the economic value of housework:
Referring to previous decisions, the Supreme Court has developed two principles of compensation for the loss of home:
1) “The housewife who suffers a financial loss in pursuit of its impaired assets as a result of injuries suffered actual damages as it is valued in money, former Civil Code art.1223. (called “to that extent” the subsequent art.2056) and can be liquidated, while in the discretion, even where the same is usual to make use of domestic workers, however, because his duties are of greater amplitude, intensity, responsibility to those performed by a provider of employee work” (Cass. Judgement n. 19387 of 28/09/2004);
2) “In the assessment of damages to the person, The method for determining the measure of income provided for in Article. 4 Law 26 February 1977, n. 39 (three times the social pension), but is applicable only against the insurer of liability arising from the use of vehicles and boats may be used by the court, exercising its power of discretion liquitazione of pecuniary damage, resulting in disability, damage that is different from the biological, as a generic benchmark for assessing the notional income of the housewife (Cass. Judgement n. 15823 of 28/07/2005).