Dan assists insurers and reinsurers to navigate and resolve complex coverage issues and disputes. He is also regularly appointed by insurers to defend and protect the interests of their insured organisations and insured persons in civil proceedings, investigations and inquiries.
Dan has a depth of experience across commercial lines, including directors’ and officers’ liability, management liability, financial institutions professional indemnity, professional indemnity, warranty and indemnity, and industrial special risk products. He has also acted for subscribers to multi-layered programmes, and for cedants and reinsurers under both facultative and treaty arrangements.
Clients trust Dan to provide accurate, timely and commercial advice, and to act for them and their insureds in commercial litigation consistent with their commercial and strategic objectives.
Dan’s pragmatic and commercial approach has earned him national industry recognition and strong client support, within both the domestic and London markets. Dan has been recognised as a Legal 500 ‘Rising Star’ in insurance, and is a long serving committee member of the Australian Insurance Law Association and has recently completed a Masters of Law (Commercial Law).
Presentations
Utmost good faith and claims, Property & Liability Discussion Group, September 2021
Presentation to insurers on issues in declining for non-disclosure and misrepresentation – August 2020
- No dough for policyholder: UK court finds that buyer-side W&I policy does not respond to purchaser’s claim
- When things don’t go swimmingly: NSW Court of Appeal finds broker’s negligence did not cause policyholder’s loss
- Claims handling as a financial service: ASIC seeks and obtains penalties against insurer for breach of its claims handling obligations
- APRA releases report on insurance claims trends
- High Court finds that utmost good faith does not bind insurer to coverage representation
- Insurers largely succeed in appeal of latest business interruption test cases
- Proposed reforms to litigation funding
- Changes to continuous disclosure laws passed
- When is a notification one of facts that might give rise to a claim? Guidance from the New South Wales Court of Appeal
- Implications of the Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 on future shareholder class actions
- Insurance implications of the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Act
- Sublimits a case of ‘each to their own’ in rectified D&O insurance programme
- Policyholders succeed in UK Business Interruption Test Case at first instance
- When ignorance is not bliss: recent appellate court guidance on deeming provisions in professional indemnity policies
- When is a notification one of facts that might give rise to a claim?
- COVID-19 Toolkit - Managing challenges for insurance brokers arising from COVID-19
- COVID-19 Toolkit - ASIC outlines expectations of general insurers on account of COVID-19
- Insolvency exclusions: what are they and when do they apply?