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Pamela Madafiglio |
| Partner |
| BA, LLB (Hons), FAICD |
| Sydney |
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Biography
Pamela is the head of our Sydney Insurance and Corporate Disputes team. During her more than 30 years' in practice she has developed a practice covering complex corporate litigation, insurance advice (policy, compliance and litigation), product liability and administrative law.
Insurance is a feature of Pamela's practice. She is one of the firm's most experienced insurance lawyers having worked with the insurance industry throughout her career. She has a diverse range of skills and significant experience in insurance claims and litigation including financial services lines (professional indemnity, directors & officers, trustees, banks), retail lines, product liability issues and claims and class actions. She has vast experience acting for insurers and corporate clients on policy wording and advice, compliance and regulatory issues and corporate risk. She is responsible for developing the highly regarded Minter Ellison publication Insurance Contracts Handbook: an annotated reference of the legislation affecting Australian insurance contracts (now in its sixth edition).
Pamela maintains a strong involvement with the insurance industry. She is President of the NSW Branch Executive Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF), is a fellow of ANZIIF and is the NSW executive member of the National Product Liability Association (NPLA). Pamela has been recognised by the Australian Insurance Law Association (AILA) with life membership for her services to the association and the industry. She was awarded the prestigious 2005 AILA Law Prize, recognising her significant contribution to the insurance industry and insurance law and is former National President of AILA. Pamela is also a Ministerial appointment to the Australian Government's Comcover Advisory Council.
Complementing her insurance practice, Pamela has significant experience in complex commercial litigation, including acting in a number of high profile class actions, for clients across diverse industries including financial services and insurance, pharmaceutical, health, manufacturing, energy, higher education and government.
Administrative law is another of Pamela's areas of focus and interest. For many years, she has worked with universities in New South Wales advising on diverse issues such as governance, funding, enabling legislation, other legislation relevant to the sector (e.g. the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, Freedom Of Information, Independent Commission Against Corruption and Ombudsman's Acts), student matters (disciplinary and discrimination) and administrative law issues generally. She is Secretary of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law (NSW Chapter) and a member of the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
Pamela is consistently recognised as one of Australia's leading insurance and dispute resolution lawyers by independent, international legal guides. She is recognised as a 'Tier 1' leading individual in Chambers Global 2010, who described her as 'sensational' and in 2009 she was noted as "acclaimed by clients as 'a first-class lawyer with enormous intellectual capacity.' A sought-after litigator, she deals with all forms of insurance work and is also admired for her strengths in insurance product development, including policy wordings and endorsements". Pamela is recognised in the The International Who's Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers 2010 & The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2011, Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers, PLC Which Lawyer?, Asia Pacific Legal 500 (as 'a leader in the industry'), Euromoney's Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2010 and was named in Best Lawyers: Australia (2010 and 2009).
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