McCabe Terrill’s public liability team have vast experience managing claims against owners and occupiers of residential and commercial property, managers of commercial property, cleaning and security contractors, construction site managers, construction contractors, road authorities, local government corporations, schools, hospitals and government instrumentalities.
We understand that public liability claims often involve the insurance coverage of strangers and double insurance.
Specific expertise includes:
- Acting in defence of high frequency claims, including occupiers and landlords’ liability, defence of claims against Coles Myer, Lend Lease, Centro Group, Franklins and Westfield and cleaning companies including Spotless, Glad Cleaning, ISS Facilities Management Pty Ltd, Assetlink Services Pty Ltd and P & H Property Services
- Acting in a wide range of hotelier liability claims against licensees and clubs relating to occupier’s liability, intoxication, security escorting breaches and patron assault
- Acting in catastrophic personal injury claims, for example, for the Australian Gymnastics Federation in defence of one of the largest catastrophic personal injury claims in a sporting context in Australia
- Our most recent success has been in the High Court’s decision of Hughes v RTA when the Court reaffirmed the principles of causation in the calculus of negligence