Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Excluded Conditions and Compromised Claims: A Deep Dive into TPD Litigation
- Challenges of pleading and proving TPD involving multiple conditions one of which is an excluded condition – Nathan Rich v TAL Life Ltd
- The impact of a TPD settlement on other existing cover e.g. Life and Income Protection
Presented by David Kelsey-Sugg, Barrister, Ah Ket Chambers
Chair
Nawaar Hassan, Barrister, Foley’s List
Presenters
David Kelsey-Sugg, Barrister, Ah Ket Chambers
David is an experienced barrister with a strong practice-focus on disability insurance. He has extensive experience in litigated TPD matters and has acted in a number of significant TPD cases. He regularly advises in relation to policy exclusions, pre-existing condition clauses, policy construction issues and the intersection between different types of claims and benefits across different jurisdictions and regimes. Prior to the Bar, David was a solicitor in private practice and with ASIC.
Nawaar Hassan, Barrister, Foley’s List
Nawaar has specialist expertise in insurance law. She acts both for insurers and insureds in indemnity disputes, defence of claims and subrogated recovery. She regularly acts in matters involving avoidance for alleged non-disclosure and alleged fraudulent claims in both general and life insurance. Nawaar has experience across the field of general insurance including: Professional indemnity insurance, building and property insurance, business interruption insurance, public liability insurance, owners corporation and strata insurance. Before coming to the Bar Nawaar worked as the Associate to Justice Cavanough of the Supreme Court of Victoria and to Judge Taft of the County Court of Victoria.
