Connect with meIsaac is a Senior Associate with deep expertise in health law, personal injury, and professional indemnity litigation.
He advises public and private healthcare providers, medical practitioners, and insurers on a wide range of legal issues, including medical negligence, disciplinary proceedings, coronial inquests, and health privacy compliance. Isaac’s health law practice spans Queensland and Tasmania, supported by a nine-month secondment with Australia’s largest private hospital provider.
His experience includes defending complex medical negligence claims, managing practitioner accreditation disputes, and advising on regulatory complaints and policy reform. Isaac represents clients across industries including local government, construction, and childcare, in public liability and workers compensation matters. He is known for his pragmatic, resolution-focused approach, while being fully equipped to defend claims through litigation when necessary.
Isaac also advises on professional indemnity claims in the healthcare and legal sectors, offering strategic guidance on coverage, liability, and quantum in high-value and sensitive disputes.
Committed to delivering tailored, commercially sound advice, Isaac helps clients manage legal risk and achieve optimal outcomes in both contentious and advisory matters. Isaac has a longstanding relationship with LawRight, providing pro bono advice and assistance through the Self Representation Service and provides support to the LGBTI Legal Service in Queensland.
- Acting for various clients (public hospitals and a Gynaecologist) in relation to pelvic mesh litigation matters involving cross-vesting issues, limitation period hearings and complex factual scenarios including both failure to warn and procedural negligence allegations.
- Acting for a neurosurgeon in a delayed diagnosis and failure to warn litigated claim commenced by a self-represented litigant.
- Acting for an emergency physician in an application for review of a psychiatric treatment order in a state tribunal.
- Advising public and private hospitals, medical practitioner and allied health professionals with regulatory complaints across Australia.
- Part of team who supported a state government’s response to COVID-19 in accordance with public health legislation and public policy considerations.
- Advising on discrete privacy questions, including responding to subpoenas and requests for information and documentation from various public entities and statutory bodies, as well as responding to statutory notices issued by Commissions of Inquiry and Royal Commissions.
- Led a team of lawyers in supporting a client introduce significant legislative reform and draft legislation / explanatory memorandum for a health-related bill.
- Acting for a crane hire specialist in a litigated claim involving a significant crush injury which occurred on a construction site.
- Acting for a local childcare provider in a litigated claim for damages involving a significant facial and eye injury to a child from another child and a metal pole.
- Acting in complex recovery actions and corresponding common law actions relating to employment-related injuries on work sites.
- Advising various private hospital providers in relation to complex medical practitioner accreditation. This included external reviews and show cause processes in compliance with hospital By-Laws, drafting confidentiality agreements and Terms of References, resisting interlocutory applications and providing practical advice on liability risk.
- Advising a barrister in relation to a multi-party litigated claim for loss of opportunity relating to alleged negligent advice within a workers compensation claim.
- Advising a solicitor in relation to a litigated claim for damages relating to alleged negligent advice within a conveyancing matter leading to an issue with an unregistered right of way.
- Health
- Inquiries, Investigations and Prosecutions
- Personal Injury
- Professional Liability
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Professions and Business Services
- Public Sector
- Law Society of Tasmania
- Australian Insurance Law Association (Tasmanian Committee)
- Young Insurance Professionals
- Australasian Professional Indemnity Goup