Connect with meCaitlin specialises in personal injury claims, with a focus on institutional abuse matters and catastrophic claims. She also has extensive experience in product liability claims, third party property damage claims and policy coverage advice.
Caitlin represents a broad range of clients in various industries including mining, manufacturing, construction, entertainment and retail. She regularly appears in the Supreme Court, District Court and Magistrates Court, where she has been involved in several high-profile matters, including a class action.
Caitlin spent a significant amount of time on secondment in the liability claims team within a large multinational insurer. That experience has given her a unique appreciation of the challenges and needs of her clients, and has informed her commercial and pragmatic approach to the management of litigated and unlitigated claims.
Legacy, Sensitive and Complex Claims
- Defending historical abuse claims on behalf of insurers and self-insureds, and obtaining successful resolutions prior to trial.
- Acting for insurers in multi-party litigated claims involving catastrophic and fatal injuries, including coronial inquests.
- Advising insurers on claims for psychiatric damages/nervous shock.
Personal Injury
- Defending claims on behalf of occupiers, builders, scaffolders and manufacturers regarding construction site injuries, breaches of occupational health and safety legislation, and fatalities.
- Defending retailers, real estate agents, small and medium enterprises, and local governments against ‘slip and trip’ type claims.
- Defending claims brought against dog owners for dog attacks.
- Defending statutory recovery actions brought by workers’ compensation insurers against third parties.
Product Liability and Recall
- Defending manufacturers and suppliers in product liability claims arising from products with safety defects that result in personal injuries and/or property loss.
- Advising insurers on product liability claims involving manufacturers and suppliers of medical and therapeutic products.
- Defending recovery proceedings brought against manufacturers of electronic goods that have allegedly caused fires and subsequent property damage.
Property Damage (Third Party)
- Acting for excess layer insurers in relation to a class action arising out of a large bushfire.
- Acting for insurers of logistics companies in proceedings involving large loss motor vehicle collisions.
Coverage
- Advising and defending insurers on complex policy coverage issues and disputes, including the operation of policy exclusions and claims for policy coverage by third parties.
- Advising insurers on policy coverage for various common law claims and penalties arising out of a fatality at a worksite.
- Advising insurers on policy coverage regarding dual insurance claims.
- Legacy, Sensitive and Complex Claims
- Personal Injury
- Product Liability and Recall
- Property Damage
- Energy, Mining and Power
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Industrial and Commercial Property
- Manufacturing and Consumer Goods
- Retail and Labour Hire
- Australian Insurance Law Association
- Law Society of Western Australia