Medicolegal considerations on the concept of inability according to the law no 222/84 (INPS) and the law no 118/71 (Civil Invalidity): similarities, differences and operational practices in the medicolegal evaluation of oncological diseases

Abstract

Introduction: the law 222/1984, on which the INPS (Italian National Welfare Institute) social security concept is based and which sets the unfit-to-work person as the one who “is in the total and permanent inability to perform any work activity”, is compared with the similar concept in the Civil Invalidity, which sets the unfit-to-work person as the one who has lost the “general working