Construction and Engineering Insurance
Carter Newell is a leading dynamic Queensland-based firm providing specialist legal advice to Australian and international corporate clients.
Led by partners Patrick Mead and David Rodighiero, the Construction & Engineering Insurance team provides high-level strategic advice for insureds and self insured companies and public and significant private companies in the mining, engineering, construction and property industries, including developers, main contractors, principals and sub contractors.
Our team is specialises in two streams – Construction All Risk (‘CAR’) insurance (including defective structure and product claims arising in construction projects) and Professional Indemnity for construction professionals, specifically engineers, architects and surveyors.
Our range of services include:
- Defective building claims and workmanship
- Product claims
- Interpretation of policy exclusions, ie. defective workmanship and design
- Construction professional liability
- Policy coverage and drafting policy terms and conditions
- Advice on project coverage and ‘gaps’ in cover
- Defence of litigated claims
- Recovery actions
- Defence of subrogated proceedings
- Alliance contracts
Members of the Construction & Engineering Insurance team have a thorough understanding of the modern construction industry, having acted directly for the firm’s national and international clients over many years.
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This book has been prepared for insurers, their advisors and other professionals involved in the construction and engineering industry...
A recent decision in the New South Wales Supreme Court, John Holland Pty Ltd v Made Contracting Pty Ltd [2008] NSWSC 374 considers an applicant’s ability to withdraw an adjudication application once it has been lodged under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payments Act 1999 (NSW) (“BCISPA”) and how the courts will strictly interpret the prescribed process of adjudication...
