Area of law
Professional Indemnity
When it comes to professional indemnity matters, our team has complete appreciation that these claims are almost always complex and sensitive.
HBA Legal is widely recognised and trusted for managing complex, high-value professional indemnity claims across all Australian states and territories. Equally, our people are skilled at managing high volume, low value claims, focusing on strategic resolutions and claims mitigation with insureds.
Our work in the professional indemnity space stems primarily from the following industries:
- Health & Medical
- Professional Services (e.g. accountants, financial advisors, brokers, lawyers, valuers, certifiers, engineers, surveyors)
- Building, Construction & Engineering
- Mining, Energy & Resources
- Transportation & Logistics
- Hospitality
- Real Estate, Strata and Body Corporate Management
- Government
- Consumer Goods & Manufacturing
- Retail & Labour Hire
- Sports, Leisure & Entertainment
- Dust Claims
- Historical Abuse
Our offering extends beyond pure ‘legal’ work and includes close collaboration with insureds and brokers to develop risk profiles and strategies that minimise claims and expenditure.
Supporting the London market
In particular, the London market has come to depend on HBA for a focus on optimal outcomes, resolution of matters at the first realistic opportunity, and a strong working partnership characterised by responsiveness and honesty.
With London and Australia being separated by distance and time zones, our clients rely on us to safeguard their interests around the clock. The HBA team has been working seamlessly with London-based clients for more than a decade, making us well equipped to navigate these differences effectively.
“At HBA, they go against the grain and do things a little differently. This is the defining ethos of HBA Legal. For years they have cultivated a craft of providing cradle-to-grave solutions for professional indemnity claims by encouraging a willingness to step down from the law firm ivory tower and work in lockstep with underwriting agents, claims handlers and insurers. They have consistently made good on their promise to achieve results for clients, while generating significant cost savings.”
Tom Allen
Chief Executive, Prime, CBC Partnership
Due to the variety of clients our team works with, we have experience dealing with insureds and their brokers directly, including where claims control is retained owing to large, self-insured retention. We work in collaboration with our clients to ensure their interests are protected whilst their rights to claim under their applicable insurance through their insurer.
We are acutely attune to the needs of insureds and insurers to keep claim costs and defence costs low. We appreciate the different perspectives and concerns insureds bring to the table, and we work closely to ensure client satisfaction during the life of a claim.
When you work with HBA, your matter hits the desk of a Partner first and claim strategy is set down early. This ensures the right level lawyers touch the file at precisely the right time, eliminating time wasting and driving down cost and claim duration.
We provide risk management advice as a matter of course; if our team sees issues within an insured’s business that can be fixed or mitigated, we report back on these items so you can reduce risk into the future.
Below, we share some standout results for HBA’s clients within the professional indemnity arena.
