Victoria Chalmers is a Brisbane-based insurance and dispute resolution lawyer with extensive experience advising domestic and international insurers and reinsurers. Her practice focuses on coverage and liability issues across directors’ and officers’, professional indemnity, general liability, and indemnity policies.
Victoria has acted in complex litigation and class actions, including some of Australia’s most prominent securities and D&O disputes. Her background includes practice in global law firms and a secondment to the claims team of an international insurer. She regularly appears in the High Court, Federal Court, and Supreme Courts across multiple states, providing strategic litigation management and policy interpretation in high-value and reputationally sensitive matters.
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- An International insurer Acting in defence of an $800 million PFOS environmental insurance dispute at an international airport.
- Director of an ASX listed funds management company Defending a class action for breaches of director’s duties in Federal Court for the ex-CIO and director of an ASX listed funds management company (in liquidation).
- An International Engineering, Geotechnical and Project Management client Acting in relation to a claim brought against them in relation to remediation and rectification works undertaken in relation to a major development in Sydney.
- A Queensland Government Agency Advising in relation to a regulatory investigation and successfully conducting statutory investigation in connection with complaint made to the Crime and Corruption Commission regarding conduct within a Queensland Government Agency.
- A Federal Department and Agency Acting in relation to class action proceedings commenced by armed services personnel concerning an alleged breach of contract claim.
- An international insurer Acting for an insurer in relation to class action proceeding commenced against directors of a pharmaceutical company concerning allegations related to non-disclosure.
- An international insurer Acting in relation to recovery of investors’ funds that were misappropriated by an employee and liaising with ASIC after criminal charges were made against the employee.
- An international insurance broker Acting in relation to a Singaporean International Arbitration Court proceeding regarding the interpretation of a contentious policy wording.
- An International insurer Advising numerous claims involving an AFS licensee and authorised representatives in respect of allegations of inappropriate geared investments.