oppure: atto compiuto nel disprezzo cosciente dell'altrui sicurezza, il che dovrebbe spiegare la situazione.

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Note added at 2002-10-15 10:08:49 (GMT)
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Per confonderti di più:

the term or terms \"gross negligence,\" \"willful misconduct,\" \"willful or wanton misconduct, \"willful and wanton misconduct,\" or \"reckless misconduct\" means conduct so reckless as to demonstrate a substantial lack of concern for whether injury results

The term \"wilful\" requires a finding of actual intent to harm, the Court concluded
http://www.milegislativecouncil.org/mlrc/1996/gross.htm

dolo = malice Collins dict.

In pratica si distingue dalla negligenza 'normale' perchè c'è conoscenza da parte del soggetto agente che si commette una negligenza, il che collega questo concetto al dolo e alla colpa grave.
Non so se è più chiaro così. Prova a dare un'occhiata a questi siti.
Ciao
Cristina

http://www.milegislativecouncil.org/mlrc/1996/gross.htm
http://www.jus.unitn.it/cardozo/Review/2002/larosa.htm

To complete the panorama, let me quote a discussion about "dolo o culpa grave" from the legal translators forum:

"...willful misconduct being one step up from gross negligence... the term you use depends on the context: torts, workers' comp. etc.

The UN's Law Terminology glossary gives "fraud" for "dolo" (and the French
"dol") in civil matters e.g. fraud as a defect in consent to a K, "willful"
in criminal law and "malice forethought" for the crime of murder, and that makes sense since the "dolus" from which dolo and dol are derived implies an intentional wrong, and "willful" generally implies intent (see that term in
Black's).

Chris"