Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hours in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
The Climate Opportunity in Business Insurance
- The intersection between climate and the new mandatory climate disclosure rules
- Satisfying Directors and officers liability (D&O) insurance policies
- Recent greenwashing cases, and their significance for insurance lawyers
Presented by Tomo Boston KC, Barrister, List G Barristers
Chair
Melanie Quixley, Principal, Barry Nilsson; President of the National Board of the Australian Insurance Law Association (AILA)
Presenters
Melanie Quixley, Principal, Barry Nilsson
Melanie is a principal in Barry Nilsson Lawyers’ Insurance & Health team and is based in the Brisbane office. Since joining Barry Nilsson in 2003, she has developed a practice in the areas of general liability and professional indemnity acting for local and overseas insurers, and directly for large corporate entities. Melanie is consistently listed in the Best Lawyers for Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation and Product Liability Litigation and Doyles Guide for Public and Product Liability and Professional Indemnity. She was also the exclusive winner of the 2018 and 2021 Client Choice Award for Insurance in Australia which recognises solicitors from around the world for the level of client care they provide and the quality of their service.
Tomo Boston KC, Barrister, List G Barristers
Tomo practises in commercial law, corporations and insolvency, trade practices, environment, product liability, professional negligence and arbitrations. Tomo is a highly regarded trial and appellate lawyer with particular expertise in climate change litigation, arbitrations, corporate and commercial law, consumer protection, environmental law, negligence and nuisance, professional negligence, and regulatory matters. He has written and presented extensively on climate change litigation, in particular the intersections between climate change and administrative and judicial reviews, environmental legislation, class actions, consumer products and protection (including greenwashing), contract and risk allocation, directors’ duties, disclosure obligations, financial products, insurance, negligence and nuisance.
