Il danno da mancata realizzazione di un risultato atteso: ai confini tra la perdita di chances e il lucro cessante?

This essay is based on the varied judgements on the loss of chances and aims at analyzing the boundaries between the economic loss ex art. 1223 c.c. and the prejudice stemming from the loss of chances of an awaited and advantageous result. With respect to this subject matter, in fact, the indicator of concreteness that the courts require in order to compensate the damages deriving from loss of chances is quite high, to the point that it overlaps to the indicator of probabilities used for a general proof of causality in a trial. This overlapping creates some coherence problem not only inside the category of loss of chances, but even related to the whole system of civil liability.