Connect with meMatt advises on general liability insurance matters, primarily relating to personal injuries and property damage disputes. He has extensive experience defending personal injuries claims brought under the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) and the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 (Qld).
His experience includes conducting large multi-party disputes that straddle the WCRA and PIPA regimes, advising on complex contractual issues relating to insurance and indemnity obligations, and advising large deductible corporate entities on managing their claims portfolios.
Matt has acted for a range of defendant insurers, TPAs and a statutory workers’ compensation authority. He has also accumulated extensive experience drafting administrative decisions on behalf of a regulatory body. Additionally, Matt has obtained in-house experience through secondments at a large multinational TPA and a multinational integrated services provider.
- Advising and acting for insurers and corporate insureds on complex multi-party claims involving injuries sustained on construction and mining sites, which have included contractual indemnity and obligation to insure issues.
- Advising and acting for insurers in dependency/wrongful death claims, including liaising with the Coroner’s Office and investigating authorities.
- Advising and acting for insurers and insureds in pure psychiatric injury claims arising out of fatal incidents.
- Acting for residential and commercial occupiers in public liability claims arising from slips, trips and falls.
- Acting for a variety of educational and religious institutions in response to claims of abuse, which have involved complex psychiatric injuries.
- Acting in motor vehicle property damage recovery and defence claims.
- Personal Injury
- Product Liability and Recall
- Property Damage
- Construction and Infrastructure
- Industrial and Commercial Property
- Public Sector and Education
- Retail and Labour Hire
- Australian Insurance Law Association
- Queensland Law Society