IN PERSON SEMINAR & WEBINAR: Resilience in the Face of Climate Change – Will climate change result in insurers and assessors doing things differently?

The impacts of climate change in Australia make it difficult for insurers to assess future risks and determine how policies can best respond to those risks and handle claims.  In the past, the insurance industry has responded in either a “business-as-us...

IN PERSON SEMINAR & WEBINAR: To test or not to test – that is the question (in claims involving mental harm)

Defendants in personal injury claims often experience real doubt about the diagnosis of a recognised psychiatric illness of a plaintiff. Raphael’s presentation will consider some of the difficulties in establishing malingering or exaggeration in cl...

Demystifying section 151Z of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 – defence against the dark arts

The cost of worker to worker claims is on the march and the process of wading through the complex statutory recovery regime in NSW only seems to be becoming more complex. Over the past 5 years there have been a number of decisions in relation to the proper...

IN PERSON SEMINAR AND WEBINAR: Lithium-ion batteries – Risks and consequences

In recent years, usage of lithium-ion battery has increased dramatically, and we are now seeing further applications in the form of electric vehicles, battery storage systems and their integration with solar and alternative energy. For all their numerous b...