Insurance
Overview
With award-winning teams of litigation and insurance experts, Freehills has gained a solid reputation working on some of the most significant and complex corporate insurance matters occurring in Australia.
The recent collapses of HIH Insurance, One.Tel, Ansett and Harris Scarfe offer important lessons about effective risk allocation and transfer strategies. Our insurance team has been heavily involved in each of these collapses, acting for major creditors/financiers, insurers and the receiver/administrators.
Our understanding of the insurance industry, as well as insureds' businesses, means we can provide effective commercial insurance advice to both insurance companies and to our commercial clients in relation to their insurance and risk management programs and concerns.
Our specific areas of expertise include: Our insurance services include:
With award-winning teams of litigation and insurance experts, Freehills has gained a solid reputation working on some of the most significant and complex corporate insurance matters occurring in Australia.
The recent collapses of HIH Insurance, One.Tel, Ansett and Harris Scarfe offer important lessons about effective risk allocation and transfer strategies. Our insurance team has been heavily involved in each of these collapses, acting for major creditors/financiers, insurers and the receiver/administrators.
Our understanding of the insurance industry, as well as insureds' businesses, means we can provide effective commercial insurance advice to both insurance companies and to our commercial clients in relation to their insurance and risk management programs and concerns.
Our specific areas of expertise include: Our insurance services include:
- commercial litigation
- corporate insurance advice
- legal risk management
- corporate insurance and risk review for major projects
- directors' and officers' issues
- Corporations Law
- trade practices
- alternative dispute resolution.