Risk Management & Insurance
Business Interruption Cover for Losses from COVID-19?
July 22, 2021If you run a business, hold business interruption insurance and have suffered losses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, you will be...
An Insurer’s Duty of Utmost Good Faith
June 30, 2021Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Youi Pty Ltd [2020] FCA 1701 The Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia (Allsop CJ)...
Insurers to be Barred from Using Unfair Contracts
September 26, 2019As widely reported in the press, the Morrison Government is set to scrap exemptions to the rules against unfair contract terms for insurance...
Damages for Disappointing Holiday
September 26, 2019Can you sue if a package holiday does not go as planned? In some circumstances, you can. Read on… Scenic Tours v Moore...
Engine of Luxury Yacht Burns Out
November 7, 2018Owner incompetent – but what about the insurance? Sheehan v Lloyds Names Munich Re Syndicate Ltd. [2017] FCA 1340 Mr Sheehan bought a...
Who is Insured When the Whole Family Lives on the Farm?
March 28, 2018On the 28th of June 2017, Judge Beazley of the South Australian District Court delivered a decision commenting on the construction of a...
Australian Executor Trustee Ltd v Suncorp Life
November 8, 2017Arson by Deceased Leads to Claim on Life Insurance Policy Summary In 2008 a house on the outskirts of Renmark in the South...