Connect with mePaul specialises in public and product liability, first- and third-party property and professional negligence claims, and manages subrogated recovery actions across these insurance classes. He regularly advises multi-national and London market insurers operating in Australia, underwriting agencies, claims administrators and corporates which self-manage their insurance programs with a particular focus on the construction, commercial, retail, sport and leisure industries, as well as religious institutions.
Paul is highly regarded by his clients for his service-oriented, considered and pragmatic approach to the dispute resolution process.
Paul is the Managing Partner of the Brisbane office.
Paul is recognised as a leading Public/Product Liability and Professional Indemnity lawyer by the Doyles Guide and as a leading lawyer in Insurance Law and Personal Injury Litigation by Best Lawyers.
Property Damage
- Successfully defending a government agency against an alleged failure to adequately inspect, maintain and repair an underground utility that catastrophically failed and damaged a pile wall at an adjacent development site.
- Successfully resolving various third party claims for a government agency following a landslip caused by a defect in an underground utility.
Personal Injury
- Acting for members of a contractors’ alliance under a principal arranged insurance scheme in personal injury / occupier’s liability claims and claims following industrial accidents.
- Acting for the liability insurer and operator of immigration detention facilities in claims by former detainees, who allegedly sustained psychiatric injury while in detention.
Professional Indemnity
- Advising the professional indemnity insurer of a nuclear engineering company involved in the design and construction of a nuclear power facility.
- Advising the professional indemnity insurer of a construction company engaged to install a ventilation system in a medical facility.
Construction and Contract Works
- Advising the plant insurer of a crane that collapsed on a construction site, and managing the subsequent subrogated recovery against third parties.
- Managing a recovery action for a multinational construction company and its insurer to recover losses from third parties for negligent manufacture, design and works.
- Accident, Health and Travel Claims
- Personal Injury
- Professional Liability
- Property Damage
- Sports, Leisure and Entertainment Liability
- Construction and Infrastructure
- Industrial and Commercial Property
- Manufacturing and Consumer Goods
- Professions and Business Services
- Sports, Leisure and Entertainment
- Australia Insurance Law Association
- Australian Professional Indemnity Group
- Claims Discussion Group
- Law Society of NSW and QLD
- Property and Liability Discussion Group (Committee member)