Liability Insurance
Moray & Agnew receives instructions from Australia's major general insurers together with numerous Australian boutique insurers, brokers and underwriting agencies.
General insurers from the United Kingdom, United States and continental Europe also regularly instruct Moray & Agnew on matters arising in Australia or throughout the South Pacific.
The firm also advises life insurers, government agencies, and blue-chip corporations on risk and insurance issues.
Our demonstrated legal skills, combined approach of creative problem solving and expertise in alternative dispute resolution ensures that our lawyers offer a rational, cost effective and workable solution to even the most complex legal problems.
Areas of expertise
- Regulatory compliance and risk
- Policy advice, drafting and interpretation
- Directors and officers liability
- Class action
- Medical negligence
- Marine insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Product liability
- Professional indemnity
- Reinsurance
- Construction and all risk
- Builders warranty
- Coronial inquests and inquiries
- Catastrophic accident claims
- Captive insurers / self insurers
- Dust and toxic tort litigation
- Property damage
- Public liability
- Sports insurance
- Travel insurance
- Bloodstock insurance
Significant client work
In the last 12 months Moray & Agnew finalised in excess of 4,500 litigated matters on behalf of general, life, government and statutory insurer clients, totalling over $500 million.
Highlights include:
- Appointed to defend on behalf of five senior Commonwealth officers a $150 million Federal Court class action arising from the suspension of the manufacturing licence of Pan Pharmaceuticals
- Providing insurance coverage policy advice to the directors and officers insurer of large corporate collapses including Lehman Bros (Aust) Limited, Lift Capital and Opes Prime
- Successfully defending a $2.4 million complex mortgage fraud claim on behalf of a finance broker
- Advising a large Australian insurer on compliance requirements in writing risk in a specific line of medical negligence insurance
- Assisting a European insurer on registering in Australia as an overseas foreign insurer
- Drafting new policies for an Australian insurer in innovative risk areas.
Independent industry recognition
Moray & Agnew was also named a finalist in the ALB Australasian Law Awards in the 'Insurance Specialist Firm of the Year' category in 2009, 2008 and 2007.
The firm and individuals are consistently ranked as leaders in insurance law in independent publications including Chambers & Partners Asia. Suzanne Wallace, Andrew McAdam and Anthony Scott are noted in Asia Pacific Legal 500 as "impressive" and "outstanding". Geoff Connellan was recently commended as an "excellent negotiator with extensive knowledge of insurance law", and singled out for his "unrivalled claims litigation experience" in ALB Australasian Legal Business magazine. The same publication in its May 2009 edition ranked partners David Flint as a "leading insurance lawyer in Brisbane" and Stephen Taylor-Jones named "the client's choice in asbestos litigation".
Moray & Agnew was named a 'Law Firm of the Year' finalist in the Australia and New Zealand Insurance Industry (ANZIIF) Awards in 2009 and 2008.
