Lawyer Marco Bona, founding partner of the MB. O, is an expert in civil liability and damages: he has worked in this field in Italy and abroad, both professionally and as a scholar.

He has been a professor at various Italian universities and since 2001 coordinator of a European study group on personal injury, and holds a PhD in comparative private law. As an expert in the field of personal injury he has also been consulted by the European Parliament's Justice Commission.

He has also been a speaker at more than 200 conferences in Italy and abroad and is the author of more than 150 legal publications.

Lawyer Bona is a member of PEOPIL, the Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers, a UK-based association of lawyers, academics and personal injury experts from EU Member States and Council of Europe member states (www.peopil.com) and a member of the Global Justice Forum, a network of international lawyers founded by Robert Lieff of the Californian firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP.

Lawyer Marco Bona assists people injured by all kinds of events within and outside the country. In his legal work he has been at the side of victims of serious air and rail tragedies.

He has participated as a lawyer and consultant in class and group actions, including litigation brought by Italian haemophiliacs in the USA against blood product manufacturers.

Lawyer Bona deals in particular with liability from medical activities; motor vehicle and road traffic accidents; air, rail and maritime disasters; occupational accidents and illnesses; damage from defective/unsafe/harmful products; and accidents occurring in the course of sporting activities and during holidays.

Together with other colleagues, he is involved in the legal assistance, in Italy and Egypt, of over 1,000 family members of the victims of the sinking of the former Tirrenia ferry "Al Salam Boccaccio '98" on 2 February 2006 in the Red Sea, a tragedy that saw the death of over 1,000 people. The case of the 'Costa concordia' also follows.

Marco Bona is also lawyer of several families who have suffered bereavements due to workers' exposure to asbestos.

Among the cases he was involved in the 6 December 2007 tragedy of the Thyssen Krupp steelworks fire in Turin; the accident in the Argentera Valley (TO) on 19 April 2003, in which a helicopter, which was carrying out heli-skiing transport services, crashed due to engine failure, killing five passengers and the pilot the Viareggio train disaster (22 June 2009); the Air France Flight 447 Rio de Janeiro-Paris air tragedy (1 June 2009); the Laces-Val Venosta train accident (12 April 2010); the Brandizzo train accident (30 August 2023).

Through forensic experience and in-depth scientific research, Studio Bona Oliva & Associati has developed such skills and professionalism as to make it special in the following sectors of primary importance: the world of work and business; intellectual property and competition; civil liability, damages and insurance law; in particular, the firm works alongside victims, offering judicial and extrajudicial assistance, in Italy and abroad, in individual claims as well as in air, rail and maritime disasters. Lawyer Marco Bona's firm assists policyholders who are denied coverage under their policies.

The firm also deals with international business and litigation, offering advice and assistance to both Italian clients who are abroad and foreign clients who have to deal with the Italian legal system.