MinterEllison’s general insurance advisory practice is widely recognised as pre-eminent throughout Australia. We have been trusted advisers to the general insurance industry, in Australia and overseas, for more than 50 years. In that time we have seen dramatic change sweep the industry in terms of the leading players and the regulatory and legal landscape. Our understanding of those developments adds significant weight to our advice.
Our clients include insurers, insureds, underwriting agencies, brokers and agents, other intermediaries and loss adjusters/assessors. Our client insurers are locally based and international (e.g. the Lloyd’s market and US insurers) and include primary and excess layer insurers, and reinsurers. Our client insureds include leading Australian organisations and multi-national corporations.
Our work covers policy work (drafting policies, legal compliance reviews and sign-offs, ‘Australianising’ overseas wordings), regulatory change and compliance, distribution, transactions (mergers and acquisitions, and Part 9 and Div 3A transfers), and corporate risk and risk management.
We cover all areas of general insurance in the retail and wholesale segments. Specialist expertise includes financial lines (e.g. directors and officers, professional indemnity, investment managers), medical malpractice, property, liability, products, workers’ compensation, asbestos, marine and aviation. We also advise on less common or emerging products in industries such as information technology, mining, energy, health/pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and construction.
We advise our corporate clients on their insurance programmes, and insurance and indemnity provisions in contractual documentation and in due diligence exercises as part of major transactions.
We are also strong supporters of the insurance industry through our participation in and leadership positions held at industry bodies such as the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance, Insurance Council of Australia, Australian Insurance Law Association, Australian Professional Indemnity Group, Generation i and Women in Insurance.