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Quentin Owen

Quentin Owen
Partner
Insurance
T 61 7 3231 2910

Quentin is a partner in Cooper Grace Ward’s Insurance team. Quentin is a specialist litigator with 30 years of legal practice as a litigator both as a Barrister and Solicitor. This includes nine years in criminal law as a Federal Crown Prosecutor and 21 years specialising in insurance matters.

Quentin advises clients in the following areas:

  • General insurance including public liability, products liability, Body Corporate liability, arson and fraud claims, defamation, and Insurance Ombudsman references
  • Recovery actions in a variety of matters, including in the cases of Nominal Defendant v Duntroon Holdings [2008] QCA 183 and Nominal Defendant v Chaffey & Ors [2011] QSC. 
  • Professional indemnity
  • Federal Workers’ Compensation.

Quentin also has a broad range of experience in a wide variety of matters including:

  • Personal injuries claims
  • Breaches of statutory duty
  • Motor vehicle accident claims
  • High level insurance related commercial litigation
  • Compulsory third party (CTP)
  • Arson and fraud matters.

He has advised and delivered papers on a variety of insurance related topics, and has also drafted a Motor Vehicle At Fault Insurance Policy for an insurance company. Quentin has conducted prosecutions successfully for the Motor Accident Insurance Commission.

He recently had one of his matters resolved for The Nominal Defendant in one of the largest amounts ever recovered upon a recovery action in Queensland.

In the 2008 Australasian Legal Business (ALB) Guide to Insurance Law, Cooper Grace Ward was ranked in the top leading three firms in Queensland in insurance law. The firm was recommended for an ability to produce quality results and is considered “ahead of the pack” in the Queensland Insurance Law Market. Quentin was praised for having “simply brilliant general insurance skills".

Quentin was named in the 2011 Chambers’ rankings as one of Australia’s leading lawyers in the Insurance division. Quentin was the only Queensland lawyer to be named in the Insurance Division of this prestigious list.

Qualifications and Memberships

Bachelor of Laws – University of Queensland
Advanced mediation training – Bond University
Admitted as a Barrister – Supreme Court of Queensland, 1980
Admitted as a Barrister – High Court of Australia, 1981
Admitted as a Solicitor – Supreme Court of Queensland, 1989
Member – Australian Insurance Law Association
Member and Accredited Mediator – Queensland Law Society
Queensland honorary solicitor – Queensland Association of Fire Investigators


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Nearly three quarters of our team members are women and hold some of the most senior roles at CGW. Find out more.

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Level 21, 400 George Street
Brisbane 4000 Australia

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