Chambers Review
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Insurance: Policyholder - Australia
What the Team is Known For
Clayton Utz's highly commended team acts for a diverse range of high-profile policyholders, including major banks, corporates and government bodies. The insurance team offers expertise across the spectrum of contentious and non-contentious issues, including professional indemnity, product liability and cyber risk. The law firm handles matters relating to regulatory compliance and insurance product development as well as providing advice on alternative risk transfer and reinsurance. Clayton Utz's contentious practice encompasses, in addition to advice on coverage disputes and claims resolutions, a strong capability for the handling of large-scale customer remediation and compensation issues for leading financial services providers. It also advises extensively on class action-related insurance recovery mandates for both corporate defendants and individual executives.
Strengths
Clayton Utz provides good communication and engagement between the firm, the insured and broker to ensure the ultimate advice is valuable and actionable.
Clayton Utz brings strength in insurance and financial services law, offering strategic insight into regulatory compliance, cyber risk and directors' liability.
Work Highlights
Clayton Utz acted for Brisbane Airport Corporation in Supreme Court of Queensland litigation against Airservices Australia and AIG Australia to recover actual and projected costs of dealing with PFAS contamination at Brisbane Airport.
Clayton Utz advised the Suburban Rail Loop Authority in relation to commercial and strategic aspects of its insurance program.
Notable practitioners
Fred Hawke is very well respected.
David is everything and more that you could ask for in your external lawyers. He provides great insights, industry knowledge and he's very responsive.
David Gerber provides very good technical legal advice in a proper commercial context.
