Overview
With award-winning teams of litigation and insurance experts, Freehills has gained an outstanding reputation, working on some of the most significant and complex corporate insurance matters occurring in Australia.
The collapses of HIH Insurance, UMP and One.Tel and the recent James Hardie inquiry offer important lessons about the liability of company directors and officers, effective risk allocation and transfer strategies.
Our Insurance Solutions team has been heavily involved in each of these matters, acting for directors and officers, major insurers, creditors/financiers and the receivers/administrators.
Our understanding of the insurance industry, as well as insureds' businesses, means we can provide effective commercial insurance advice to both insurance companies and to our commercial clients in relation to their insurance and risk management programs and concerns.
Our specific areas of expertise include:
Our insurance services include:
- commercial litigation
- corporate insurance advice
- legal risk management
- corporate insurance and risk review for major projects
- directors' and officers' issues
- Corporations Law
- trade practices
- alternative dispute resolution.
We are consistently ranked as one of Australia's leading law firms by local and independent legal guides.
In a recent survey by Global Counsel 3000 and in Asia Pacific Legal 500’s 2005 guide, the head of our national Insurance Solutions group Michael Mills was rated as one of Australia’s leading individual insurance lawyers, with the later guide describing Michael as having a reputation ‘as one of the best insurance lawyers in the country’.