Commentaries: Art. 348a

Any agreement whereby the commercial traveller is made liable for the client’s payment or any other type of performance of the client’s obligations or for all or part of the recovery costs is void.
Where the commercial traveller concludes transactions with private individuals, he may by means of a written undertaking assume liability in a given transaction for at most one-quarter of the losses incurred by the employer as a result of non-performance of the client’s obligations, on condition that an appropriate del credere commission is agreed.
In the case of insurance policies the travelling insurance broker may by means of a written undertaking assume liability for at most one-half of the recovery costs where a single-payment premium or premium instalments are not paid and he seeks their recovery by way of legal action or compulsory execution.