Navigating Liability for Design: Key Considerations for Contractors, Professionals, and Insurers

Partner Luke Preston spoke as part of an international Insurance Law Global webinar panel discussing ‘Navigating Liability for Design: Key Considerations for Contractors, Professionals, and Insurers’.

This featured a panel of experts who compared and contrasted the duties imposed on design and construction practitioners in the, USA, France and Australia respectively.

More specifically, the panel discussed:

  • Design liability for architects, engineers and building contractors
  • Joint, several and proportionate liability
  • The scope of any duty to warn
  • Considerations for insurers
 
The webinar recording is available below.

This article may provide CPD/CLE/CIP points through your relevant industry organisation.

The material contained in this publication is in the nature of general comment only, and neither purports nor is intended to be advice on any particular matter. No reader should act on the basis of any matter contained in this publication without considering, and if necessary, taking appropriate professional advice upon their own particular circumstances.

Luke Preston
Partner

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