Guidelines: Telehealth Consultations With Patients
From 1 September 2023, the Medical Board of Australia Guidelines setting out its expectations of medical practitioners undertaking all forms of telehealth consultation are available, replacing…
Learning to Live With COVID-19 - The Trolley Dilemma in Our Economy
How do we decide which industries are so essential that the risks of suspending operations outweigh the risk of using COVID-19 positive workers who can continue working?
Business Interruption Cover for Losses from COVID-19?
If you run a business, hold business interruption insurance and have suffered losses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, you will be very interested in whether your policy covers those COVID-19…
An Insurer’s Duty of Utmost Good Faith
Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Youi Pty Ltd [2020] FCA 1701 The Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia (Allsop CJ) recently added to the growing weight of jurisprudence…
Damages for Disappointing Holiday
Can you sue if a package holiday does not go as planned? In some circumstances, you can. Read on… Scenic Tours v Moore [2018] NSWCA 238 was a class action in which various people sued the tour…
Insurers to be Barred from Using Unfair Contracts
As widely reported in the press, the Morrison Government is set to scrap exemptions to the rules against unfair contract terms for insurance companies acting on one of the 76 recommendations to come…
Engine of Luxury Yacht Burns Out
Owner incompetent - but what about the insurance?
Who is Insured When the Whole Family Lives on the Farm?
On the 28th of June 2017, Judge Beazley of the South Australian District Court delivered a decision commenting on the construction of a "Farm Pack" Personal Insurance Policy and a "Small Farm" Rural…
Australian Executor Trustee Ltd v Suncorp Life
Arson by Deceased Leads to Claim on Life Insurance Policy
Omissions Must Cause or Contribute to Loss to Allow Rejection of Insurance Claims
Implications of Maxwell v Highway Hauliers Pty Ltd [2014] HCA 33
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