Economic dependency: The Anger Court of Appeal explains that a brutal increase in the price of accounting and administrative services is an abuse of economic dependency (Proservices c/ SA Orthodis)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CA Angers, Switzerland, February 7, 2006, SARL Proservices c/ SA Orthodis The ruling handed down on 7 February 2006 by the Angers Court of Appeal is instructive not only with regard to compensation for a victim of a multiple violation of the provisions of article L. 442-6 C. com, but also with regard to the concept of economic dependence. In the present case, since 1990, a distributor of prostheses had been working closely with a group of companies. One of the companies in this group supplied him with the prostheses and another company handled all his administrative and accounting tasks. In 2002, however, the situation deteriorated as the distributor