Insurance
Insurance is a people business.
So is the law.
Tailored to the insurance industry.
Our insurance experience is unmatched. Our clients have access to one of the largest pools of dedicated insurance lawyers in the country. This expertise is available around Australia and across all commercial lines of insurance. We regularly advise over 65 different insurers along with brokers, cover holders, underwriting agencies, TPAs and self-insureds.
Your trusted legal partner.
Our firm is founded on strong, enduring relationships with our insurance clients. At the heart of this is an understanding of your values and standards and a dedication to provide service that matches your expectations whilst adapting to your changing needs.
This commitment goes beyond the quality and value of the advice we provide, to include how we engage and support your claims teams, insureds, brokers and wider stakeholders. Providing clarity and transparency so you can make informed decisions.
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Professional Indemnity
Experts at defending experts.
We know that professional indemnity matters are often complicated and sensitive. Regardless of size of claim or type of issue, our team is highly qualified and experienced to manage your needs.
As a market leader of legal services in professional indemnity insurance, many of our firm’s practitioners have been formally acknowledged by the industry. Our principals are recognised year-on-year as leaders in professional indemnity claims in Doyle’s Guide.
Our team:
- has represented thousands of senior professionals across all industries, including lawyers, accountants, financial advisors and brokers, consultants, conveyancers, architects, engineers, those in the building and construction industry and medical professionals
- extensive experience in matters encompassing everything from small value disputes to multi-million-dollar class actions
- serve as panel lawyers, or otherwise act for, a large number of Australian and global insurers, including Lloyd’s syndicates, both as defence and coverage counsel
Our national team provides seamless coverage across Australia and in relation to international matters, and our expertise representing professionals in the legal, financial and construction industries is widely recognised. Indeed, we are panel lawyers for the solicitors’ professional indemnity schemes in NSW, ACT, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. These appointments as lawyers to the legal sector itself reflects the depth and calibre of our professional indemnity expertise.
Our approach.
We understand the often confronting and difficult position of claims against professionals, together with the risk of reputational and commercial damage, and are adept at handling these matters with empathy, clarity and maturity.
We work with our insured and insurers clients to formulate an appropriate strategy. We are adept negotiators and strong litigators and will tailor these skills in each case to effect the desired outcome.
We appreciate that the way in which claims are manage can cause a tension between insureds and insurers, and we always work to minimise that tension, through honest and open dialogue, and collaboration.
Our experts.
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