Bachelor of Laws (Adelaide University) 1976
Master of Laws (Monash University) 1993
ANZIIF (Fellow) CIP
South Australia (1977)
Victoria (1983)
New South Wales (1995)
High Court of Australia (1992)
Western Australia (2003)
Fellow, Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance
Senior Fellow, Faculty of Law, Melbourne University
General Editor, Insurance Law Journal
Reporter, Australian Insurance Law and Regulation and Honorary Fellow, Centre for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria
Member, Australian Insurance Law Association
Member, Law Institute of Victoria
Member, Advisory Board, Banking and Financial Services Law, Faculty of Law (Graduate Studies), Melbourne University
Member, Prahran Insurance Society
Fred is the General Editor of the Insurance Law Journal published by Lexis Nexis and Former Chair of the Journal Advisory Council of the Australian Insurance Institute. He is also the Australian Reporter for the Center for International Legal Studies, and the author of the Chapter on Australia in Oceana Publications Inc's loose-leaf publication International Insurance Law and Regulation, as well as a number of other papers and articles on topics of insurance law and claims management. His publications include the following:
“Notes from the Underground: Some Tips for Acting & Instructing in Insurance Disputes" Copyright Business Law Education Centre (1988)
Drafting and Construction of "Insurance Contracts", 8 Australian Insurance Law Bulletin 59 (1993)
"Double Insurance and Equitable Contribution", Copyright Institute for International Research and the author (1994)
"Claim Reserves: Perspective of a Claims Manager" published in "Challenges & Resolutions" proceedings of the Australian Insurance Law Association National Conference (1993)
"Utmost Good Faith ‑ What does it really mean?" 6 Insurance Law Journal 91 (1994)
"Notification of Circumstances under Claims Made Policies: Some Observations upon the Scope and Operations of Section 40(3) of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth)", 6 Insurance Law Journal 252 (1993‑94)
"Claims Management Parts 1 & 2", 18 No.1 Australian Insurance Institute Journal 12 & 18 No.2.A.I.I.J 8 (1995). This article won the Australian Insurance Institute's E.E. Vines Memorial Prize for 1995
"Circumstance Notification: Failure to Obtain Insurer's Consent to Costs ‑ Whether an Omission within Insurance Contracts Act S54", 7 Insurance Law Journal 72 (1995)
"Proportionate Liability: the Enquiry into the Law of Joint and Several Liability, Parts 1 & 2", Vol 20 No.5 Australian Insurance Institute Journal 26 (1997) and Vol 21. No 1 A.I.I.J. 14 (1998). This article won the E.E. Vines Memorial Prize for 1998.
"Insurer's Duty of Care" 9 Insurance Law Journal 59 (1997)
"Class Actions: the Negative View" 6 Tort Law Journal 88 (1998)
"Holding the Distribution Chain to Ransom: the Legal Implications of Product Tampering" 9 Australian Product Liability Reporter 77 (1998)
“You would cry too if it happened to you! The Legal and Insurance Implications of Major Utility Failure” 18 Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Journal 42 (1999)
"Risky Business: A General Overview of Section 54 of the Insurance Contracts Act and Claims Made Policies" Vol 22 No. 3 A.I.I.J.26 (1999)
"Alternative Risk Transfer: Magic Pudding or Bermuda Triangle?" 12 ILJ 61 (2000)
"Proceeds of Settlement of Litigation against Insurer: Income or Capital Gain?" 12 ILJ 117 (2000)
“How Dominant is a Dominant Purpose? New Rule for Legal Professional Privilege” Vol 24 No 3 ANZIIF Journal 26 (2001)
Alternative Risk Transfer: Pollution and Environmental Impairment Risks (2002) Australian Mining & Petroleum Law Association Yearbook 371
Passing the Buck: Non-delegable Duties and Vicarious Liability and the Impact of the Lepore Decision (2003) Vol 26 No 3 ANZ IIFJ 28 (with Natalie Cameron)
Document Management and Litigation (Parts I & II) (2003) Vol 14 Nos. 4 & 5 Australian Product Liability Reporter (with Romy Klein)
Managing the Risks of Insurance, ARELJ 168 (2003)
The Insurance Contracts Act Reloaded. Parts 1 and 2, (2004) ANZIIF Journal Vol27 No 4 p10 and No 5 p12
The New General Insurance Code of Practice 2005 (with Janine Fenwick) (2005) Vol 21, 1 Australian Insurance Law Bulletin 1
The Innocents Abroad: A comparison analysis of key elements of Australian and United Kingdom Insurance and Reinsurance Law (2006) 17 I.L.J. 18
Out of the Frying Pan: The New Victorian Regulations for Fire Services Levy on Insurance Premiums. Corporate Risk, January 2006 (with Yee-Fui Ng)
A Gaping Hole in Section 54 (2006) Vol 21 No 10 Australian Insurance Law Bulletin 1 (with Janine Fenwick)
An Updated Overview of Political Risks Insurance (2006) Vol 29 No 5 ANZIIF Journal 22
Proportionate Liability and Contract Certainty (2007) Vol 22 No. 6 Australian Insurance Law Bulletin 82. This article also appeared in Vol 4 No. 2 of the journal Australian Civil Liability
Three Colours - Professional Indemnity Insurance (Part 1) (2007) Vol 30 No 2 Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance Journal 27
Three Colours - Professional Indemnity Insurance (Part 2) (2007) Vol 30 No 3 ANZIIFJ 34
The Fence-Sitting Insurer and the Prudent Uninsured (2007) Vol 23 No 2 Australian Insurance Law Bulletin 18 (with Rebecca Dean)
Contractual Waiver of an Insurer's rights and remedies: Securing protection for the innocent Co-Insured (2008) 19 ILJ 263 (with Tanya Janfada). This article was also published in (2008) Vol 31 No. 4 Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance Journal at page 30.
Mind the Gap! A Cautionary tale of Coverage Intentions (Parts 1 and 2) (2008) Vol 23 No 10 Australian Insurance Law Bulletin 154 and (2008) Vol 24 No 1 A.I.L.B. 2.
The Ethical Conduct of Litigation - A Proposed New Rule Book (2008) Vol 31 No 5 Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance Journal 16 (with Fred Prickett)
What Use is Liability Insurance to a Bank?, Australian Banking & Finance On-Line (October 1, 2010)
Insurance & flooding - issues for commercial enterprises (2011) Vol 26 No 2 Australian Environment Review 51
