Kate is a commercial disputes lawyer in the insurance and professional risks practice.
Kate specialises in insurance disputes, assisting policyholders, brokers, and insurers with claims and coverage issues across all types of insurance. She has a particular interest in directors and officers (D&O) and civil liability (PI) insurance. Kate has also acted on significant claims involving public and products liability, construction, employment practices liability, and marine insurance.
Kate also represents solicitors firms, barristers and insurance brokers in professional indemnity claims.
Background
Kate holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Business from Griffith University and was admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2015.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- a leading pharmaceutical company on opioid-related D&O insurance recoveries
- a major retail bank on insurance claims related to alleged misselling of mortgage products
- one of the world's leading mining companies on D&O insurance recoveries following a major disaster
- marine insurers of vessels detained in South America in US$ 150 million Commercial Court proceedings
- King's Counsel and Junior Counsel in the successful defence at trial of professional negligence and conspiracy allegations brought by their former client concerning their conduct of a Commercial Court trial: King v DWF & Ors [2023] EWHC 3132 (Comm)
Sectors
