The Queensland Parliament passed the Amending Bill on 17 September 2015.  The Amending Act will make some significant changes to the Workers Compensation & Rehabilitation Act 2003 (WCRA).

Last week, the New South Wales Supreme Court handed down a decision in the matter of Anderson v Ausgrid [2015] NSWSC 1308 which is likely to be extremely helpful to insurers seeking recovery as a result of fire damage.

On the 6^th July 2015, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released an Information Paper in relation to Outsourcing. It noted that in recent years there has been a significant change in the way that technology is being employed with shared computing services (SCS) being increasingly utilised by a range of business entities.

The making of appropriate contemporaneous notes in medical records is best practice for clinical care, but also to facilitate the defence of a claim should an adverse event occur.

For practitioners, knowing what is classified as an adverse event, which must be notified to their professional indemnity insurer, is often difficult. Failing to notify of an adverse event could mean that the practitioner is not covered by their insurer for any claim arising out of the adverse event.

Previous proceedings brought by a credit hire car provider in the name of an insured do not necessarily preclude a later subrogated action.

The Queensland Treasurer, Curtis Pitt, on 15 July 2015 introduced into Queensland Parliament the Workers’ Compensation & Rehabilitation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015 (Qld) (the Bill). The Bill makes a number of amendments to the Workers’ Compensation & Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) (WC&RA), the most significant of which is clause 6 which will see the removal from the WC&RA of the requirement for a worker’s injury to have an assessed degree of permanent impairment (DPI) of more than 5% in order for a worker to be entitled to bring a common law claim against their employer. The amendment is proposed to be back dated to commence on 31 January 2015 (the date the Qld state election was held).

Nicholas Gordon, Senior Associate, and Vahini Chetty, Associate recently presented on recent cases which considered the Civil Liability Act and how these decisions may impact future claims.

Application pursuant to section 16 of the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 (Qld) (PIPA) to join an insurer as a PIPA contributor.

Welcome to our second edition of the Holman Webb Insurance Law Bulletin.