Hannah accepts briefs in all aspects of insurance law / litigation including general liability, financial lines and general commercial litigation.
Prior to the bar, she worked at a top-tier international firm and national insurance firms. She has acted for domestic insurers, corporate self-insureds as well as Lloyds’ syndicates and their insureds across education, health, entertainment, aged care, hospitals, not-for profit and building sectors. Hannah has extensive litigation experience having instructed on matters in most jurisdictions including SA, VIC, NSW and QLD.
Hannah held in house-roles at Australia’s largest domestic insurer and an ecclesiastical insurer in both general liability and financial lines claims. She has a working knowledge of how insurers assess risk, manage claims and the interplay between claims, reinsurance, underwriters’ and actuaries.
Her practice areas include:
Advisory work
Complex indemnity disputes
Policy construction and multiple proximate causes loss
Late notified claims
Fraudulent / non fraudulent disclosure
Subrogated recoveries
Reinsurance
General liability
Public liability
Personal injury
Occupiers’ liability
Motor vehicle
Bullying / harassment / discrimination
Financial lines
Professional indemnity
Employment
Medical negligence / medical malpractice
Coronial inquests
WHS prosecutions
Defective builds
Product liability
Cyber
Hannah has previously volunteered at Fitzroy Legal Service’s Night Clinic and was a member of the Insurance Council of Australia, Liability Committee. She is currently on the Legal Services Commission General Panel.