Personal Injury

• Acting for insurers and the providers of recreational services, including members of the domestic and foreign travel industry, water parks, indoor play centres, game shooters, amusement rides, golf courses, hoteliers and major event organisers, on personal injury claims following accidents, assaults and the service of alcohol.
• Defending Government and NGOs in respect of claims arising from historical sexual abuse.
• Acting for the insurers of domestic and foreign manufactured products, industrial cleaning equipment and various sporting goods, in personal injury claims.
• Defending builders, sheet pilers, scaffolders, crane operators and other building industry contractors in personal injury claims, including advice on differing forms of insurance and indemnity clauses.

Property Damage

• Defending builders, crane operators, scaffolders and various building industry contractors in property damage claims, including advising on different forms of insurance and indemnity clauses.
• Acting for the insurers of domestic and foreign-manufactured products in property damage claims.
• Defending owners of a commercial premises following the collapse of a factory wall causing $15 million damage to a neighbour’s property.

Coverage

• Providing coverage advice about multi-million dollar product contamination claims following a mouse plague.
• Providing coverage advice in relation to the application of Professional Services exclusions on numerous claims involving Real Estate Agents, Arborists, Pest Inspectors, Engineering firms and Managing Agents.
• Providing advice on the application of “reasonable care” conditions in respect of claims for grossly negligent property damage and associated class action.
• Numerous claims involving property damage resulting from defective building works and the application of faulty workmanship exclusions.