Description
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Learning Objectives:
- Review recent property insurance cases related to natural disasters
- Understand key legal issues in claims for floods, landslips, and earthquakes
Chair
Gary Hughes, Barrister, Britomart Chambers
Property Insurance Round Up: Floods, Landslips, and Earthquake Issues
With natural disasters on the rise, property insurance law is being tested. This session reviews recent litigation involving floods, landslips, and earthquakes highlighting the legal challenges, insurer obligations, and practical implications for property owners and advisors.
Presented by Grant Shand, Principal, Grant Shand Barristers & Solicitors
Presenters
Gary Hughes, Barrister, Britomart Chambers
Gary is a leading independent lawyer at Britomart Chambers, specialising in all types of regulatory investigations, enforcement and disputes, advocacy, and advice. His insurance practice has a focus on financial lines, D&O, or statutory liability cases. He has deep expertise in resolving issues with business crime regulators – especially the Commerce Commission, Financial Markets Authority, AML/CFT Supervisors, Serious Fraud Office, Privacy Commission, and other government agencies. Widely known for specialist work on Competition law and Anti-Money Laundering cases, Gary is a member of the NZ Law Society Law Reform Committee, Chair of the International Bar Association’s AML & Sanctions Experts committee, and author of the Thomson Reuters textbook AML/CFT Workflows & Guidance for Lawyers. At the cutting edge of regulatory issues, his work includes the DIA’s first AML/CFT pecuniary penalty case, Russian Sanctions Act issues, and defending the first criminal cartel prosecution in New Zealand. Gary has worked on insurance law disputes and problems throughout his 28-year career including at leading law firms (Clyde & Co, Chapman Tripp and Wilson Harle) and for a period in-house at Aon UK. That ranges from defending claims against directors/managers, to policy coverage disputes, to Commerce Commission or RBNZ prudential investigation of insurance companies. Gary’s pragmatic strategic approach also makes him a sought-after trainer of Boards and Professional partnerships. Admitted in NZ (1996), also qualified in England & Wales and Supreme Court of NSW Australia.
Grant Shand, Principal, Grant Shand Barristers & Solicitors
Grant Shand is the principal of Grant Shand Barristers and Solicitors. He is New Zealand’s leading natural disaster lawyer. Since 2012 he has done hundreds of cases arising out of the Canterbury earthquakes and is still involved in two earthquake class actions against EQC and many court proceedings. He is now involved in flooding and landslip cases around the country, including two class action flooding cases against local authorities.
