Victoria is a Senior Associate in the Melbourne office with experience across a broad range of insurance disputes. Her core practice involves life and disability claims and public and product liability matters.
Victoria is a Senior Associate in the Melbourne office with experience across a broad range of insurance disputes. Her core practice involves life and disability claims and public and product liability matters.
Victoria joined Clyde & Co in 2021 and is a Senior Associate in the Professional & Financial Disputes team. Victoria practices out of the Melbourne office.
Victoria provides both front and back-end advice to life insurers and superannuation trustees in the defence of Total and Permanent Disablement, Death and Income Protection claims, including non-disclosure and fraud disputes, in both retail and group insurance contexts. Victoria also played a key role in a team that acted for and achieved a successful result for a major life insurer in regulatory proceedings commenced by ASIC.
In addition to her life insurance practice Victoria regularly advises Australian and London insurers and their insured clients in the defence of public and product liability proceedings brought across a variety of products and Australian jurisdictions. Victoria specialises in the defence of personal injury claims including claims by injured workers and associated recoveries brought by the Victorian WorkCover Authority.
Victoria also has experience advising and representing insurer clients in accident and health and property based subrogated recoveries.
Victoria is Treasurer of the Victorian chapter of Women in Insurance, having been appointed as a committee member in 2019.
Expérience
Defending major Australian life insurers and superannuation trustees in Victorian and Western Australian jurisdictions in respect of litigated claims for TPD, IP and non-disclosure
Providing front end advice to a major life insurer in respect of non-disclosure in claims
Defending a major Australian life insurer in a regulatory prosecution brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Advising a superannuation trustee in relation to complaints brought before the Australian Financial Complaints Authority
Acting for a global construction company in defence of public liability claims including claims brought by injured workers and recoveries brought by the Victorian WorkCover Authority, as well as contractual indemnity disputes
Defending public and product liability claims brought against major Australian retailers, restaurants, and distribution and logistics companies
Assisting a major confectionary manufacturer in a defective product claim against a supplier
