28 June 2004
Key Points:
Fred Hawke has extensive legal and practical experience in insurance law, claims management and insurance company operations. Before joining Clayton Utz, he was directly employed in the insurance industry for more than 20 years and was responsible for negotiating and settling insurance and reinsurance disputes involving some of Australia’s largest liability losses. These included Ash Wednesday bushfire claims, product liability class actions involving breast implants and intra-uterine devices and the Estate Mortgage, Spedley, Bond Corporation and Linter Group corporate collapses.
More recently Fred has been extensively engaged in insurance and reinsurance issues involving major projects, the HIH collapse Captive insurers, terrorism and the risk management consequences of the changing world order.
Fred is a well recognised and prolific writer and presenter on insurance law and insurance industry related legal matters. He also teaches in Professional Indemnity Insurance in the Graduate Studies Program at Melbourne University.
