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Recently, some motor vehicle repair shops have partnered with third party recovery agents to offer customers, who appear to be not at fault in a

The battle over Administrative fees A few weeks ago, I thought I had settled a motor vehicle accident claim on behalf of an insurer (I’ll

In March 2015, the High Court delivered its judgment in Grant Samuel & Ors v Fletcher & Ors [2015] HCA 8, and unanimously overturned the decision of

In Hammersley v National Transport Insurance1, the Supreme Court of Tasmania provided a timely reminder that when dealing with exclusions in Motor Vehicle Policies, the state

Insurers need to be made aware of immediate changes to the Disclosure Notices required for all ‘eligible contracts of insurance’ (regulation 2B) being – motor,

In a major win for the insurance industry at large in New South Wales, the Supreme Court of NSW in Wong v Maroubra Automotive Refinishers and

In March and April 2014, the Supreme Court of New South Wales handed down three decisions considering the operation of restraint of trade clauses in

The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal does not have the power to redraft an exclusion clause for cover offered by a trustee of a superannuation fund in

In his keynote address to the Inaugural SIAC Congress 2014, Law Minister K Shanmugam spoke of the Singapore government’s proposal to form an International Commercial

The current national unfair contract terms protections found in the Australian Consumer Law (and those that relate to financial services, in the Australian Securities and

The New South Wales Supreme Court has taken the decision making processes of insurers and trustees to task in the first half of 2014 –

The temporary protection for transitional security interests in the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (PPSA) is about to come to an end. The PPSA, which came into

The decisions of the respective courts of appeal in Queensland and Western Australia in Johnson v Triple C Furniture & Electrical Pty Ltd [2012] 2 Qd R

It is common practise in lower courts (such as the Magistrate’s Court and Local Court, especially in motor vehicle property damage matters) for plaintiff’s to

The Home Building Act 1989 (NSW) requires a contractor who wishes to enter into a contract for residential building work to obtain statutory mandated home