
Lawyer Petruzzi clarifies the details of the 960 thousand euro out-of-court settlement
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Little Domenico Caliendo died following a heart transplant carried out in Naples with an organ taken in Bolzano.
"The 960 thousand euros agreed for the extrajudicial compensation obtained at the end of the negotiation for the death of little Domenico Caliendo, are net of legal expenses and do not include the damages deriving from the crime of forgery and the medico-legal expenses incurred during the evidentiary incident, estimated at several hundred thousand euros". Thus the lawyer Francesco Petruzzi, lawyer of the Caliendo-Mercolino family, contacted by ANSA, comments on the Fanpage.it article which reports the figure - 960 thousand euros - calculated at the end of a negotiation in which the Colli hospital and the child's family took part with their lawyer.
The figure, which was supposed to remain secret, was mentioned in a resolution, number 785, dated 8 October 2026, published on the website of the specialist hospital in Naples.
"The choice not to include these items in the out-of-court compensation - explains Petruzzi - allows us to be able to form a civil party in the possible trial for manslaughter alongside the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples, which, otherwise, would not have been possible. In essence, we will ask for the rest of the compensation from the defendants, among whom will be the heart surgeon Guido Oppido", concludes the lawyer.
The Fanpage.it article also refers to the possibility that the Colli hospital company could take action against the Bolzano hospital where on 23 December 2025 the damaged heart was removed and transplanted to little Domenico on the same day.
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