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Webinar Recording: Apportionment and Contribution in Insurance

Click through to watch Holman Webb's latest insurance webinar: Apportionment and Contribution in Insurance.

Presented by General Insurance Partner Peter Bennett and Associate Linda Huynh on Tuesday 6 July 2021, this webinar examines a range of significant cases relating to apportionment and contribution in insurance.

Discussion topics include:

  • Contributory negligence.
  • Failing to keep a proper lookout.
  • Intoxication.
  • Contributory negligence can defeat a claim by being determined at 100%.
  • Contributory negligence in contract.
  • Joint tortfeasor, where judgment entered for a defendant.
  • Proportionate liability.
  • Where the plaintiff is unable to recover from the concurrent wrongdoer.
  • Liability of an employer for a hire worker.

Upcoming Insurance Webinar: Apportionment and Contribution in Insurance (Tuesday 6 July)

Holman Webb is delighted to announce our second Insurance Webinar of 2021, hosted by the firm's General Insurance Team and presented by Partner Peter Bennett and Associate Linda Huynh.

Click through to register your attendance today!


Court of Appeal: Alleged Concurrent Wrongdoers With Statutory Immunity Cannot be Legally Liable at Any Stage

In the NSW Court of Appeal decision of Woodhouse v Fitzgerald [2021] NSWCA 54 given on 9 April 2021, the Court addressed whether the Proportionate Liability provisions of the NSW Civil Liability Act were engaged in circumstances where the alleged concurrent wrongdoers had a statutory immunity from suit.


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