Our front-end insurance team provides extensive advisory services to both insurers and insureds, including:
- Establishing businesses, licensing, agent and broker arrangements
- Policy wording, drafting and advice
- Advice on new product offerings
- Regulatory obligations, compliance, regulatory change and reform and interactions with regulators such as APRA, ASIC, ACCC and PHIAC and overseas regulators
- Risk management and allocation;
- Corporate governance and advisory
- Marketing and sales advice
- Reinsurance
- Portfolio transfers and other M&A transactions
- Client distress, restructuring and insolvency
- Technology implementation and outsourcing
- Tax structuring
Our insurance litigation practice helps resolve claims and handle insurance disputes across multiple sectors. We also have significant expertise defending litigation (including class actions) on complex insurance issues.
We focus across multiple segments, insurance offerings and insurance claims including general insurance, life insurance, directors' and officers' insurance, professional liability and indemnity, employment practices liability insurance, workers safety and compensation, industrial special risks, construction all risks, maritime, aviation and trade, environmental, warranty & indemnity insurance, cyber risk, management liability, IPO liability, class actions, defamation, product recall, reinsurance and sector specific especially in life sciences, technology, medical malpractice and mining industrials (especially dust diseases).
We are the firm insurers and insureds turn to for emerging trends, new and novel, untested products such as policies and claims.
