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Class actions aren’t just a matter for the major insurers – they can drag in your clients too. Patrick Boardman considers the legal ins and outs in the May edition of Insurance Business magazine.
Class actions aren’t just a matter for the major insurers – they can drag in your clients too. Patrick Boardman considers the legal ins and outs in the May edition of Insurance Business magazine.
Sean O’Connor shares his thoughts on the relationship between proportionate liability, arbitration and insurance cover in this article published in Australasian Lawyer magazine. View article here.
Patrick Boardman spoke to Australasian Lawyer to share his views on recent legal developments and emerging trends in D&O insurance.
The April 2014 edition of our “Construction Bulletin” includes commentary in relation to the following matters: Professionals acting unprofessionally – the meaning of the terms “professional services” in a D&O policy exclusion. Recent changes to Queensland’s building and construction industry legislation. The special leave application in the Brookfield Multiplex litigation. The future of compulsory commercial […]
The current boom in cyber insurance policies is at least partly due to new cyber privacy laws being enacted in March 2014. Andrew Moore, Jane O’Neill and Jack Geng investigate the new legal landscape in the March edition of Insurance Business magazine.
In conjunction with the firm’s Community Footprint Corporate Social Responsibility program, on 14 May a team of Wotton Kearney partners, lawyers, support staff and managers participated in the Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH) “Walk for Justice” from Sydney’s Hyde Park, taking in The Botanic Gardens and Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, before finishing in The Domain. […]
From Monday 9 December W+K Melbourne will be located on level 15, 600 Bourke Street, returning to the building where the office began in 2007. Over the Christmas period the Sydney office will also be moving to new premises, closing the doors at 88 Phillip Street on 24 December and reopening on Monday 6 January […]
The November 2013 edition of our “Construction Bulletin” includes commentary in relation to: Proportionate liability. The newly established Victorian Building Authority. Dispute resolution clauses. Duty of care.
Christmas came early to Wotton Kearney’s offices with staff donating 58 gifts of toys and books to The Smith Family Christmas Toy and Book Appeal. A number of staff also purchased gifts for the Appeal online. Sadly, thousands of Australian children go without presents at Christmas simply because their families can’t afford to buy them. […]
After months of planning and fundraising, which has seem them raise over $21,000, W+K’s team of housebuilders (Nick Lux, Andrew Price, Heidi Nash-Smith, Aisha Lala, Angela Winkler and Karen Pritchard) is heading to Cambodia this weekend to build homes for 13 impoverished Cambodian families, in partnership with the Tabitha Foundation. This will no doubt be […]