General Insurance

Suzanne is a senior associate in our insurance team.

Suzanne’s general insurance experience includes public liability property and personal injury claims, work related accidents and diseases, motor vehicle insurance, home and contents insurance, subrogated recovery claims, product liability, fraudulent claims and indemnity disputes.

Suzanne also acts for a number of life insurers and superannuation trustees in disputes involving total and permanent disablement and income protection claims, arising from group and individual risk products.  She provides advice on fraudulent claims, assessment of disability, avoidance issues arising from non-disclosure and misrepresentation and conducts appeals from the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal to the Federal Court.

Suzanne also advises both general insurers and life insurers on indemnity, policy construction, the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 and other governing legislation.
 

Gillian has practised in insurance law for 20 years and during this period has dealt with a wide variety of insurance policies including;

• public liability policies;
• commercial motor vehicle fleet and heavy equipment policies; and
• marine policies including hull and cargo, carriers’ legal liability and load policies and ship repairers’ policies.

Gillian has a special interest in transport law, both heavy road transport and maritime law.

Matters in which Gillian has been involved include advising insurers in relation to all aspects of insurance cover including;

• indemnity issues;
• issues of double insurance;
• drafting policy wordings for load and liability insurance; and
• recovery/subrogation actions on behalf of insurers.

As part of completing her Masters degree, Gillian undertook several research projects involving transport issues such as the use of exclusion clauses in the road transport industry, sub-bailment, marine insurance law reform and freight forwarding. Gillian has also published articles in the National Law Review, Macarthur Law Review and the Australian Business Law Review dealing with transport law.

Gillian has tutored in commercial law and torts law at Queensland University of Technology and has lectured in maritime law for the Centre of Maritime Law at the University of Queensland.