Kennedys has managed some of the most significant professional indemnity litigation conducted in Australia.
Our team has unrivalled experience in acting for major insurance clients in professional indemnity disputes across a vast array of professional businesses and services.
Senior partners have over thirty years’ experience in all areas of professional indemnity insurance and enjoy an enviable reputation based on exceptional skills in this increasingly complex area.
We advise and represent:
- Accountants, financial planners, and advisers
- Legal practitioners
- Doctors, other health care professionals and hospitals
- Insurance brokers
- Engineers, architects and surveyors
- Local municipal authorities
- Valuers and real estate agents
- Religious institutions
- Professional and other associations
We also provide clear and detailed advice on policy coverage issues so that insurers and insureds fully understand their rights and obligations.
Partners and lawyers hold leadership positions in APIG and AILA, and are frequently invited as key note speakers for conferences.
Work highlights
- Successfully defended CGU in proceedings commenced against the D&O insurer by the liquidator of an insolvent mining company. Indemnity denied to directors under directors and officers insurance policy for non-disclosure (Martin John Green in his capacity as liquidator of Arimco Mining Pty Limited (in Liquidation) v CGU Insurance Limited & Ors [2008] NSWSC 825).
- Successfully defended CGU in the High Court in proceedings commenced by barrister. CGU denied a Claim made by the barrister under a Barristers Civil Liability Professional Indemnity Policy, for failure to notify CGU of known circumstances (CGU Insurance Limited v Porthouse [2008] HCA 30).
- Acting on behalf of a large PI insurer in defending a $10 million claim for indemnity brought against it by a major engineering company.
- Acting on behalf of a major international insurance broker in a $15 million claim where allegations of underinsurance were brought against the insured educational institution.
- Successfully defending a major professional indemnity insurer in a claim brought in the Supreme Court by an insured council seeking to use the operation of both Sections 40 and 54 of the Insurance Contracts Act to bring the claim within the ambit of the policy.