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The McCabes team is experienced in managing the legal liability arising from construction and infrastructure-related litigated and non-litigated disputes relating to property damage, defects and personal injury.
Our specialist team has worked on some of the highest profile cases in Australia in relation to a major loss at a power plant, faulty works at a residential unit, water damage, significant flooding, combustible cladding, inappropriate materials, mine collapses, defects liability, excavation damage, collapse of a structural wall and defective design, plan or specification.
Our team advises on policy wording, contractual indemnities, regulatory and legal issues, as well as claims recovery and settlement strategies. We assess the risk under a contract and its interaction with a policy of insurance to achieve the best result for our clients.
The McCabes team has broad experience in advising insurers, brokers, underwriters and self-insurers on all aspects of environmental risks, exposures and claims. Our experience ranges from contaminated land, air and water pollution risk management, to advising in relation to compliance, regulatory breaches, regulatory investigations, enforcement actions and defending prosecutions.
Our lawyers are well versed in dealing with the technical issues of complex risks and work in parallel with environmental experts, our clients and their customers to mitigate those risks. We understand the insurance issues and put in place an appropriate claims strategy to achieve a fair, timely and effective resolution.
McCabes has an established team with the technical skills and experience to manage industrial special risk claims in a proactive and cost-effective manner. We manage
high-value claims involving complex indemnity issues under industrial special risk, machinery and delay in start-up policies and recoveries.
Our claims experience covers damage to generators on commissioning, crane fires, saturated soils, damage to industrial conveyors, business interruption, pollution and contamination, boiler damage or explosion, flood damage during construction with damage and delay, consideration of causation.
We provide bespoke advice and excellent solutions. Whether you have a general question, feedback or seek legal counsel, please do not hesitate to reach out.
