How can lawyers and clients best work together?
We often hear about clients and lawyers frustrated with each other. Certainly, both sides would have wished to avoid the disappointment. However, do we know how to forge a healthy...Read more
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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. Since joining Clayton Utz 23 years ago, Fred has practised insurance and reinsurance law, with special emphasis on claim recoveries, regulatory and compliance issues, Property, Casualty, Marine, Crime and Financial Liability insurances, reinsurance and retrocession, Trade Credit insurance and Political Risk insurance, Captives and alternative risk transfer are all areas in which he has had considerable experience, both in the insurance industry and in legal practice. Fred is a member of the Editorial Board and former General Editor of the Insurance Law Journal. He is the present author of the chapters on Australia in International Insurance Law and Regulation and on Insurance in The Laws of Australia and has published numerous other papers and articles on topics of insurance law and claims management.