Mark Sammut
Clayton Utz
Consultant
Brisbane
Overview
Mark is a highly experienced professional with over three decades specialising in commercial litigation and insurance matters. He has a strong track record of successfully handling disputes spanning insurance coverage, professional indemnity, trade practices, contract disputes, ASIC investigations, and a wide range of complex legal actions.
Notable Work
- Natural Disasters: provided advice on insurance and reinsurance claims concerning property losses following the Canberra bushfires, involving complex industrial special risks and business interruption insurance worth $750 million.
- Various: represented clients in Trade Practices Act Class Action related to a fraudulent investment scam involving 176 plaintiffs.
- Engineering company: defended a claim for over $50 million brought by a mining company, alleging negligence in a mine feasibility study.
- Corrective Services witnesses: acted for a number of Corrective Services witnesses in the Queensland Youth Detention Commission of Inquiry
- Racing Queensland: acted as a key member of the team representing Racing Queensland in the Racing Commission of Inquiry.
- Construction company: successfully representation in a complex property insurance dispute concerning flood damage to a gas pipeline against an insurance provider.
- Major international bank: acted in connection with 11 legal proceedings brought by investors in a failed loan scheme called the "Wattle Group," involving allegations of fraud and misleading conduct.
- Directors of a trustee and former auditors: acted in Supreme Court proceedings initiated by ASIC against the directors of a trustee and former auditors from a superannuation fund after APRA imposed a freeze on the fund.
- Engineering company: defended a claim for over $50 million brought by a mining company, alleging negligence in a mine feasibility study.
- Local council: acted in a multiparty litigation involving significant landslips on a residential development in Far North Queensland.
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COVID-19 claims under business interruption insurance – NSW Court of Appeal gives go-ahead in test case
19 Nov 2020 | Article
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