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 has considerable expertise in complex insurance and reinsurance matters and Alternative Risk Transfer. We always receive feedback on deliverables and prompt response."
"We are really impressed with the quality and availability of the partners. They have great knowledge on our business and industry, and have taken the time to partner with us."
Work Highlights
Clayton Utz acted for Wellington Gateway Partnership in a litigation for a recovery of an 'Advance Loss of Profits' claim made under the construction insurance for the Transmission Gully Project in New Zealand.
Clayton Utz acted for the Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation in relation to the establishment of a Cyclone Reinsurance Pool.
Notable Practitioners
Fred Hawke is a highly respected, veteran insurance practitioner who continues to advise across a comprehensive range of practice area issues from the Melbourne office.
David Gerber operates across the full insurance spectrum, acting for both insurers and policyholders and also advising state and Commonwealth government agencies on a variety of issues. He is particularly focused on the financial lines market and often assists on policy reviews. "David is really good, handling complex interpretations of insurance policies, causes and implications. He makes things simple and is pragmatic." "David is calm and considered. He has a good level of technical and practical approach."
