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Seeking Resolution: Remedies From The Australian Financial Complaints Authority In Travel Insurance Disputes

AFCA serves as an independent body that specialises in resolving financial disputes, including those related to travel insurance.

Australia Insurance

CO

Carroll & O'Dea

What to do if your TPD or income protection claim has been rejected

It pays to understand the basis upon which your income protection or TPD claim was declined.

Australia Insurance

HP

Hall Payne Lawyers

Insurance Comparative Guide

Insurance Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Australia, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

Australia Insurance

LA

LGM Advisors

Overview of insurance and reinsurance laws and regulations in Australia

Overview includes regulatory authorities & procedures, (re)insurance claims, litigation & arbitration.

Australia Insurance

K

Kennedys

Australian Insolvency Considerations for (Re)insurers In The Era of COVID-19

Australia Insurance

CC

Clyde & Co

Insurance And Reinsurance 2020

Australia Insurance

CC

Clyde & Co

We do not have your back: the importance of clear drafting in reinsurance contracts

Australia Insurance

NR

Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

Australia Insurance

CC

Clyde & Co

Lead insurer or follow the leader clauses: binding (re)insurers to the settlement of claims

Australia Insurance

CB

Colin Biggers & Paisley

Circumventing the usual allocation of reinsurance proceeds: in the matter of HIH Casualty & General Insurance Limited [2015] NSWSC 923

Australia Insurance

NR

Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

What inspection rights does a reinsurer have over an insurer's books?

Australia Insurance

CB

Colin Biggers & Paisley

Australian Royal Commission Recommends Abolishing Limitation Periods Retrospectively - Reinsurers

Australia Insurance

CC

Clyde & Co

Liquidators of insurance companies face (re)insurance problems

Australia Insolvency

CU

Clayton Utz

Will insurance claims be paid in the aftermath of the Sydney Siege?

Australia Insurance

SH

Sparke Helmore Lawyers

Can You Dismiss An Employee For Looking For Another Job?

Australia Employment

S

Swaab

Podcast: SMSFs With CGW – What Is Happening With Division 296 Tax? (Tax On Large Superannuation Balances)

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Cooper Grace Ward

"I had cancer and they sacked me. That's disability discrimination". Which case won?

Australia Employment

S

Stacks Law Firm

New English Requirements For Visas

Australia Immigration

IL

Interstaff Immigration Agency

Essential ESG: Episode 25 – Operating Responsibly In Conflict-affected Areas: The Role Of Grievance Mechanisms

Australia Commercial

CC

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Getting your priorities right: Sydney Water Corporation v McGrath [2014] NSWCA

This recent judgment helpfully illustrates the operation of a priority application in relation to reinsurance proceeds.

Australia Insolvency

NR

Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

New ASX Listing Rules And Guidance Note On Continuous Disclosure – Implications For D&O Insurers

The Australian Stock Exchange Listing Rules 3.1, 3.1A and 3.1B, and Guidance Note 8 concerning continuous disclosure obligations came into effect on 1 May 2013.

Australia Insurance

CC

Clyde & Co

9/11 Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center – One Event Or Two? Issues for the reinsurance market

A recent UK decision considering the 9/11 terrorist attacks has removed uncertainty in the reinsurance market.

Australia Insurance

DP

DLA Piper Australia

Using and Avoiding the Australian Court System to Resolve (RE)Insurance Disputes

This is an excerpt of a paper describing Australian insurance law, delivered at the AIDA Budapest Colloquium in 2012.

Australia Insurance

DP

DLA Piper Australia

UK Supreme Court rules in favour of New Cap liquidators

Australia Insurance

NR

Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

Reinsurance: Order of reinsurance proceeds varied

Australia Insurance

NR

Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

Reinsurance: First Bridgecorp, now a charge on "reinsurance" proceeds

Australia Insurance

NR

Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

Westport Insurance Corporation v Gordian Runoff Ltd

Australia Insurance

NR

Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

Issues in Reinsurance 2011

Australia Insurance

DP

DLA Piper Australia

Failure to eject unruly hotel patron not a breach of duty of care

Australia Insurance

CB

Colin Biggers & Paisley

Include me out: exclusion clauses, reinsurance, and section 18B of the Insurance Act

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

Reinsurers win decade-long battle in High Court

Australia Insurance

D

DibbsBarker

New Queensland Reconstruction Authority will have broad planning powers

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

Flood Claims Pour In

Australia Insurance

C

Curwoods Lawyers

Include me out: exclusion clauses, reinsurance, and section 18B of the Insurance Act

High Court rules that exclusion clauses and limitations have a precise meaning separate to the scope of insurance cover.

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

Reinsurers win decade-long battle in High Court

This High Court decision is important for reinsurers and for parties involved in commercial arbitration.

Australia Insurance

D

DibbsBarker

New Queensland Reconstruction Authority will have broad planning powers

Broad new planning powers will be vested in the Queensland Reconstruction Authority under the Queensland Reconstruction Authority Bill, which was passed by State Parliament on 17 February 2011.

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

Flood Claims Pour In

Does the ingress of water constitute damage to an open cut mine?

Australia Insurance

C

Curwoods Lawyers

How Much Discretion Does A Trustee Have In Choosing A New Insurer?

Australia Insurance

DP

DLA Piper Australia

Reinsureds Beware

“Lexington Insurance Company v AGF Insurance Limited"; "Lexington Insurance Company v Wasa International Insurance Company Limited” [2009] UKHL 40 confirms that where the laws of the insurance and reinsurance contract differ, it is no longer safe to assume that cover under a facultative reinsurance contract incorporating the terms of the underlying insurance contract will be ‘back-to-back’.

Australia Insurance

DP

DLA Piper Australia

Battles From Afar: A Liquidator’s Fight To Recover Payments To UK Companies

In a win for Australian liquidators, “New Cap Reinsurance Corp Limited v A Grant & Ors, Lloyd’s Syndicate No. 99”1 [2009] NSWSC 662 allowed the Australian liquidator of a re-insurer recovery of payments to two UK companies under sections 588FF and 588FE of the “Corporations Act 2001” (Cth).

Australia Insurance

DP

DLA Piper Australia

"Back-To-Back" Contracts Of Reinsurance Can Lead To Face-Off In Court If Not Drafted Correctly

Do so-called "back-to-back" reinsurance contracts provide cover co-extensive with the insurance, particularly where similar terminology is used?

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

Drafting Reinsurance Clauses

The recent New South Wales Court of Appeal decision in General Reinsurance Australia Ltd v HIH Casualty & General Insurance Ltd (in Liq) [2009] NSWCA 22 highlights the risk of adopting general and ‘common industry’ language when drafting reinsurance wordings.

Australia Insurance

DP

DLA Piper Australia

What´s Covered, And What´s Excluded? Contracts Of Reinsurance And Section 18B

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

That Wasn´t Supposed To Be Covered! General Reinsurance Australia Ltd V HIH Casualty & General Insurance Limited (In Liquidation) [2009] NSWCA 22 - A Cautionary Tale For Reinsurers

Australia Insurance

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Gadens Lawyers

APRA Eases Up On Recognition Of Reinsurance Recoverables

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

Praise The Lords: HIH Reinsurance Money Coming Home

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

First Party Loss Policies

Australia Insurance

DP

DLA Piper Australia

Additional Conditions & Follow Settlement Provisions

Australia Insurance

DP

DLA Piper Australia

What´s A Payment "Under" A Reinsurance Contract?

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

APRA Reforms Released For Public Comment

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

DOFI Bill Strikes Balance

Australia Insurance

CU

Clayton Utz

WA Decision Puts Home Owners Warranty (HOW) Market On Tenterhooks

Australia Insurance

ME

Minter Ellison

Mediation - A Rival To Arbitration In Reinsurance Disputes?

Australia Litigation

CU

Clayton Utz

Solvent Run-Off Scheme A First For Australia

Australia Commercial

CU

Clayton Utz

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