Professional Indemnity

Cantwell Lawyers is a national law firm specialising in Insurance Law.

We have acted for professionals and their insurers in major and complex professional negligence, commercial, financial services and property litigations.

Professional we can and have acted for include:

  • Insurance brokers
  • Solicitors
  • Accountants
  • Financial advisers
  • Hospitals
  • Psychiatrists
  • Property Professionals
  • Architects
  • Valuers
  • Hospitals
  • Psychiatrists
  • Engineers
  • Real-estate agents

Examples of major professional indemnity include:

  • Major litigation acting for insurers and their insured, an accountant firm, against a class of claimants in respect of representations allegedly made by the insured and advice given concerning the sale of unit entitlements and the rights of unit holders in two large hotel, commercial and residential complexes.
  • Acting for architects in a large claim involving all other on-site professionals and their contractors, against an architect for not designing the box gutters large enough at a large Brisbane CBD commercial shopping and retail complex.
  • Acting for valuers and their London insurers in significant claims involving the Myer Centre, Brisbane.