Law firm HFW has hired two Sydney-based special counsel from Dentons and Meridan Lawyers to boost its growing insurance group.
The superannuation fund of the construction industry has been hit with ASIC enforcement action, accused of long delays in processing the death and disability claims of thousands of members.
Medibank is seeking to shield from a shareholder class action an “irrelevant” post-incident report by Deloitte into its massive October 2022 data breach.
Investment manager Salter Brothers has sued XL Insurance, saying it has “unreasonably delayed” covering the costs of defending a former client’s lawsuit alleging misleading conduct.
ASIC has won its case against insurer HCF Life over a pre-existing condition term that was likely to mislead the public, but failed to convince the court that it was an unfair contract term.
A ‘junk’ insurance class action against Suncorp unit AAI wants an initial trial to deal with the claim — absent a sample group member — that car dealers made purchasing a policy necessary for a loan.
The corporate regulator has brought court action against QBE Insurance alleging it misled over half a million customers over policy discounts.
The High Court has been asked to take up an appeal by insurers over coverage for the class action defence costs of Opal Tower’s consultant engineer.
Nuix has taken a slew of insurers to court seeking coverage of legal bills incurred in defending multiple class actions and proceedings by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
In the tangled legal fallout of the $7 billion collapse of Greensill Capital, the administrator of the failed financier’s bank has secured a so-called anti, anti-suit injunction against an arm of insurer Marsh.