Kernrechtsfrage
Whether uncovered legal and litigation costs incurred in proceedings against third parties are recoverable as damages under Art. 41 and Art. 754 OR.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Such costs can be recoverable where they are a natural and adequate consequence of the director's wrongful conduct, but costs already compensated by procedural cost rules cannot be claimed again.
Extrahierte Begründung
The Court accepted that third-party litigation expenses may constitute a patrimonial loss under the difference theory if causally linked to wrongful conduct. However, costs of the criminal proceeding were already governed by cantonal procedural law and the awarded procedural indemnity barred further recovery of the excess in tort/corporate liability.