Diana Semaan
Associate
Associate
Diana specialises in workers insurance claims, including common law work injury damages and statutory compensation claims. She assists various national insurers including icare in litigated claims management and regularly appears in matters in the Personal Injury Commission, District Court and Supreme Courts of New South Wales.
Prior to joining McCabes, Diana worked as in-house legal counsel and in general practice with a boutique law firm. Diana gained broad experience dealing with private clients in a variety of areas including commercial transactions and litigation, employment and administrative law.
Diana was admitted into the Supreme Court of NSW in May 2019 and holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Technology Sydney. She completed her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts majoring in International Business and International Relations from the University of New South Wales.
Case Note – Zaya v Damirdjian Judgment date: 11 October 2022 Citation: Zaya v Damirdjian [2022] NSWCA 203 Jurisdiction: Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of NSW Before: Bell CJ, Gleeson JA and Griffiths AJA Principles Expert evidence has a limited role to play in resolving liability issues in motor accident claims and will carry little […]
A claimant suffers psychological injury when he is threatened by a would be thief of his motor bike. Whether the medical assessor was justified in concluding that this was not a motor accident was answered by the Supreme Court in Bell v Allianz Insurance Australia Ltd. Judgment date: 18 August 2022 Citation: Bell v Allianz […]
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