Current Issues in Director's and Officer's Liability Insurance

Substantive Law

CPD Points 1

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The most recent cases and developments in director’s and officer’s liability insurance and their implications are discussed in this course.

Lawyers are often asked to provide advice with respect to Directors’ and Officers’ liability insurance. This course provides an overview of the basic nature and distinctive characteristics of this type of insurance.

The course discusses some of the issues which most commonly arise in relation to Directors’ and Officers’ Liability insurance, such as non disclosure of claims and the circumstances which may give rise to claims, advance payment of defence costs and access by third parties to D&O policies.

The course also examines cases which outline recent developments in this area of law, including the decisions in ASIC v Healey (Centro Group), Hird v Chubb Insurance, Rushleigh Services v Forge Group (in liq) and CGU Insurance v Blakeley.

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Michael Cornes

Michael specializes in insurance and corporate risk, and has practiced as a barrister and solicitor for 25 years.

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Helpful to any commercial lawyer

This CPD was extremely informative and would certainly assist any commercial/corporate lawyer.
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An excellent overview of the issues.
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Learned some useful things

This was an area where I thought I had a high degree of knowledge - but I still learned some useful things
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Wonderfully convenient way to do CPD!

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