Kathy Chen
Lawyer
Lawyer
Kathy completed her Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Commerce degrees at the University of Sydney in 2020 and was admitted into practice in December 2021. Kathy joined McCabes in August 2022 and has experienced in various practice areas of the firm.
She has worked in the Recoveries group of the Insurance Division, where she assists with managing high-volume motor vehicle recovery claims for insurers, being both undefended and defended legal actions in all jurisdictions Australia-wide, particularly focused on NSW and ACT.
She also works in the Government Division on institutional abuse claims, where she focuses on the management and defence of historical child sexual abuse claims including sensitive, complex and high quantum claims, including litigated matters in the Supreme and District Courts.
Kathy also as past experience as a graduate in the Health group of the Government Division, principally representing NSW Health agencies in litigated and unlitigated medical negligence claims.
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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