We are excited to announce that Chambers Asia-Pacific has recognised Wotton Kearney as a Band 1 insurance firm in Australia for the fourth consecutive year. Four of our partners have also been recognised in the 2016 guide as Notable Practitioners, being founding partners David Kearney and Phillip Wotton, along with Cain Jackson and Andrew Moore. […]
Wotton Kearney has been awarded Law Firm of the Year for Insurance Law by Best Lawyers in Australia, as announced on Friday in the Australian Financial Review. This is the first time the award has been released in Australia and is determined by Australian peer evaluation of insurance law firms, based on asking respondents that […]
Two recent decisions of the Western Australia Court of Appeal (Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd v Inglis [2016] WASCA 25) and the NSW Federal Court (Pantaenius Australia Pty Ltd v Watkins Syndicate 0457 at Lloyds [2016] FCA 1) show that section 54 of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 is still causing trouble over 30 years after […]
The NSW Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Nightingale v Blacktown City Council [2015] NSWCA 423 has provided increased certainty of the level of “actual knowledge” of a risk that must be established in order to defeat a section 45 defence. The case has significant ramifications for plaintiffs seeking to sue road authorities. In order […]
Yesterday the High Court handed down its decision in CGU Insurance v Blakeley [2016] HCA 2, a case which considers a third party claimant’s right to join an insurer to Court proceedings against an insured for the purpose of challenging the insurer’s decision to decline cover to the insured. After reviewing conflicting authorities on the […]
We are delighted to announce that Wotton Kearney has been named a finalist for Best Law Firm in Australia (revenue under $50m) at the Financial Review Client Choice Awards 2016. The awards are based solely on independent research of client responses across a range of key service and experience related criteria. Having won the award […]
Wotton Kearney’s Perth office is now open for business in our new Brookfield Place premises As one of the only boutique providers of legal services to the Australian insurance industry, opening our doors in Perth is a natural progression to provide on-the-ground support to our clients in the West and to their corporate insures. It […]
Wotton Kearney and APIG are delighted to announce that Kristine Salgado of Willis Australia has won the inaugural W+K APIG Scholarship. Kristine’s application was selected because of her thought provoking account of the way forward for the insurance industry and her contribution to financial lines insurance at such a young age. As part of the […]
Congratulations to W+K partner and Head of Pro Bono Heidi Nash-Smith on being named as a finalist for Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year at the 2015 Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards – an award she currently holds. Heidi continues to lead the development of our Pro Bono and CSR program Community Footprint to […]
As one of the first true legal boutiques in Australia with a focus on one industry, in November this year. W+K has worked with national insurers and their corporate insureds based in Western Australia for over 10 years. Establishing an office in Perth will further strengthen our service offering to the insurance market, a large […]
