Connect with meKarren specialises in financial lines, with a focus on professional indemnity and construction and infrastructure claims. She has broad experience acting for Australian and international insurers, underwriters and insured professionals in contractual and commercial litigation, as well as financial institutions, class action and property damage claims in all courts and jurisdictions (including VCAT).
Karren represents a range of financial professionals (including financial planners and advisers, stockbrokers, insurance brokers, accountants, superannuation fund managers and mortgage aggregators) and construction professionals (including engineers, architects, builders and building surveyors). She has also acted for real estate agents, IT service providers, incorporated associations, owners corporations and migration agents.
Construction + Infrastructure
- Acting on behalf of a D&C contractor on a claim in negligence and nuisance by the owner of an adjoining property for damage caused by subsidence.
- Advising and representing an owners corporation in respect to water ingress into a lot owner’s premises.
- Acting on behalf of a number of building surveyors in respect of claims brought by owners alleging (amongst other things) wrongful issuing of building permits and negligent inspections.
- Acting on behalf of an engineer in respect of a large aged care construction project in South Australia arising from alleged deficient footing design (and other design issues).
Industrial + Commercial Property
- Acting on behalf of a real estate agent on claims by purchasers that the agent’s employee had fraudulently sold properties to them.
Financial Institutions + Services
- Representing a financial adviser on claims of alleged negligent advice, misleading or deceptive conduct, and breaches of section 12ED of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth) and section 945A of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
- Acting on behalf of a large stockbroker on allegations that one of its employees did not have any reasonable basis to make the investment recommendations that they did and negligently managed the plaintiffs’ portfolio by courting an inappropriate level of risk.
Technology Liability
- Providing advice to a large IT services provider on alleged breaches of sections 18 and 29 of the Australian Consumer Law by engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct and making false and misleading representations.
- Financial Institutions
- Professional Liability
- Technology Liability
- Construction + Infrastructure
- Financial Institutions + Services
- Industrial + Commercial Property
- Professions + Business Services
- Australian Insurance Law Association
- Law Institute of Victoria
- Australian Professional Indemnity Group
- Association for Women in Insurance