Sull'applicazione dell'art. 1020 cod. nav. alla prescrizione dei diritti derivanti dal contratto di assicurazione dei rischi della navigazione aerea.

The process of revising the aeronautical part of the Italian Navigation Code, while improving the provisions relating to air navigation risk insurance, has inevitably affected Article 1020, which regulates the time limit rights for an insurance contract. As a result, the Article – which establishes a one-year time limit to exercise the rights granted by the insurance contract – has lost its common rule character and thus its general applicability to all kinds of air navigation risk insurance. This creates the need to identify the relevant provisions, in order to correctly determine the time limit rights for types of insurance under discussion. The Code does not expressly contain a provision regulating the time limits for a carrier’s passenger civil liability insurance; therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify the provision applicable to insurance contract time bars, without specific consideration of Article 1020