corporate risk and insurance

The corporate risk and insurance team at gadens melbourne provides a range of skilled legal services and solutions to increasingly complex local, national and international insurance issues. Our team is part of a national corporate risk and insurance practice area which benefits clients by increasing the available industry expertise and experience.

Our corporate risk and insurance team has an excellent track record of providing legal services to insurers, self insureds, brokers and agents to assist them to achieve their business imperatives and remain abreast of relevant changes to the law.

We have a strong commercial focus and commitment to keeping you informed of new legislation and developments in corporate risk and insurance law, as well as providing you with a full range of services and assistance in developing new products.

areas of expertise

Our corporate risk and insurance team members are experienced in: 

• advising and acting in matters where assault is alleged, including common law assault and sexual assault against persons holding positions of authority in commercial and religious organisations;
• acting in the defence of product liability claims brought against primary producers, manufacturers and suppliers of goods arising from the manufacture and sale of defective products, including chemicals, pharmaceutical products; prostheses and manufacturing components;
• advising in relation to the consumer protection provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) and drafting product recall procedures for the recall of therapeutic goods manufacturing components and consumer products;
• appearing before professional boards and tribunals in inquiries into professional misconduct, unprofessional conduct and unethical conduct in breach of statutory provisions regulating the conduct of various professions;
• advising and acting on instructions from insurers in the defence of matters involving disputes amongst insurers arising out of multi-layered insurance cover; indemnity disputes arising out of liability and other insurance policies; policy interpretation and wording; dual insurance; principals’ extensions; joint insured clauses; cross liability clauses, exclusion clauses and general conditions clauses;
• advising and acting for pharmaceutical corporations in applications for review of administrative decisions before the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal, including decisions notified under the Therapeutic Goods Administration by persons acting as delegates of Ministers;
• pre-court procedures and tort reforms in each state/territory;
• statutory insurance such as workers compensation and CTP;
• acting in matters where damage to goods and theft is alleged during transit and / or storage of goods, claims for business interruption, breach of officers' and directors' duties, industrial risk and construction risk and pure economic loss claims;
• contractual insurance provisions in commercial agreement in relation to level of cover, indemnities and warranties;
• advising in relation to agency and broker agreements, binders, compliance with regulatory requirements, as well as policy drafting and interpretation and product development;
• transactions involving purchase and sale of businesses of insurers, brokers, agents and loss assessors, as well as deposit guarantees / equity performances bonds; and
• risk management strategies advice in relation to public liability and occupational health and safety.

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