Professional Liability

• Defending a structural engineering company and individual against multiple competing claims arising from collapsed retaining walls at a residential estate in Queensland.
• Defending a building certifier company against a claim for loss and damage arising out of subsidence to a commercial building owned by the property developer plaintiff.
• Defending a large corporate client in a lost opportunity claim brought by multiple self-managed superannuation funds against its town planning business arm.

Personal Injury

• Acting for the insurer of a large mining company in defending a series of personal injuries claims brought against it by first responders to a fatal accident at the insured’s mine operation.
• Defending a large mining company against a claim brought by a labour hire employee engaged to perform manual handling tasks at a warehouse.
• Defending a gas plant operator insured against a claim brought by a gas fitter for chemical burns allegedly suffered while completing work at a processing facility in the Northern Territory.

Property Damage (Third Party)

• Acting for the insurer of a telecommunications network aerial maintenance company in defence of property damage claims arising from a bushfire in 2019.
• Acting for the insurer of a fire sprinkler systems maintenance company in defence of a litigated property damage claim, arising from the discharge of water from a sprinkler system on to machinery owned by the furniture manufacturing plaintiff.
• Advising an insurer client on coverage for claims against a deregistered insured arising from the design of a cabling system at two large solar farms in North Queensland.

Property Damage (First Party)

• Advising the primary insurer and following market of a construction works global policy for a claim by a subcontractor for losses arising from defective air-conditioning duct insulation installed at a hospital in Darwin, Northern Territory.
• Advising an insurer client on coverage for first-party losses incurred by a property owner insured following the destruction of a shopping centre from a fire occurring in 2019.

Product Liability + Recall

• Advising an insurer client on coverage issues arising from negligence by a logistics facility operator insured spanning over a 4-month period.
• Defending the insurer of a fibreglass component supplier in respect of an alleged failure of the product against dual insurance claims by two insurers of a related insured entity. T
• Advising an insurer client on coverage for and monitoring a claim brought in Canada against an Australian manufacturer of a water leak detection device.

Commercial Litigation

• Advising a local Council client in respect of a dispute concerning the negligent preparation of a railway inspection report by a supplier in respect of a large railway restoration project.
• Acting for a loss adjuster in a dispute involving the buy-out of an agricultural claims portfolio following the breakdown of a commercial relationship.