Richard is a Consultant in the Adelaide General Insurance team and has in excess of 45 years’ experience in commercial and civil litigation acting for national and international insurers, claims agents and large corporations.
Richard has strategised some of the largest and most complex, high profile cases in SA and the NT. Richard’s practice covers all classes of insurance and includes advice on indemnity issues and policy coverage.
Richard is regularly recognised in Doyle’s Guide as a ‘Preeminent South Australian Defendant Public Liability Lawyer’, a ‘Leading South Australian Defendant Professional Indemnity Lawyer’, a ‘Recommended Leading South Australian Medical and Malpractice Lawyer’ and a ‘Recommended Leading Compulsory Third Party Insurance Lawyer’. Richard has also been regularly named in Best Lawyers™ Australia for Professional Malpractice Litigation Law, Insurance Law and Personal Injury Litigation.
Expertise
Experience
- Medical indemnity insurers Acting and advising medical indemnity insurers, medical professionals and allied health professionals on claims for personal injuries arising out of alleged medical and professional negligence.
- An insolvency practitioner Acting for an insurer of an insolvency practitioner in a Supreme Court of South Australia action and successfully defending the claim against the practitioner for damages for alleged breach of duty in conduct of liquidation.
- An insurer Acting for an insurer in respect of recovery of multiple property losses arising out of a catastrophic bushfire.
- A liability insurer Acting for a liability insurer of a retail food business in defence of class action claims for damages for personal injury arising out of product provided to customers.
- Insurers Acting for insurers in defence of catastrophic and complex personal injury claims arising out of motor vehicle accidents and liability claims in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
- An insurer Advising an insurer of a church authority in respect of indemnity issues and in defence of multiple claims for sexual abuse.
- A major shopping centre Acting for a shopping centre in defence of claim for damages for personal injuries, involving issues relating to delegable duties of care for occupiers of large shopping complexes (Stringer v Westfield Shopping Centre Management Co Pty Ltd [2017] SAFCSC 138).
- Insurers Acting for insurers in defence of recovery claims for substantial property losses following catastrophic bushfires.
