Diana Masen
Diana has gained broad insurance experience through legal roles both in-house, for national and international insurers, and in private practice in litigation and corporate advisory roles. Prior to pursuing her legal career, she was an insurance broker for international insurance brokers in Australia and the UK.
Diana enjoys the opportunity to use her extensive insurance and legal knowledge, skills and experience to provide insightful, strategic, practical and commercial technical and legal solutions for clients in litigation or in managing their insurance programs.
Experience
Diana’s experience includes:
- Conducting insurance program reviews for clients in a variety of industries, including industrial, manufacturing, construction, transport, mining and financial services;
- Providing advice to clients on the coverage, structure and obligations under directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies at renewal, in IPO’s or as part of M&A transactions;
- Reviewing and negotiating contracts with respect to the insurance obligations to ensure terms align to clients’ risk appetite and insurance policy coverage;
- Compiling claims submissions and negotiating resolution of claims across all classes of insurance with a particular focus on large property and major civil works, professional indemnity and directors and officers liability insurance;
- Acting as defence or coverage counsel in litigious and non-litigious directors’ and officers’ liability, professional indemnity, management liability, employment practices liability, trustees liability and crime insurance claims;
- Drafting insurance policies for all classes of general insurance for retail and broker markets to ensure coverage reflected policy intent, was within underwriting guidelines and complied with regulatory obligations; and
- Acting for a major national and international insurer in the conduct and management of claims, specifically in the provision of the technical advice on insurance coverage and development of litigation strategies in all jurisdictions and dispute resolution forums in Australia.