SRB Legal has managed many professional indemnity and Directors & Officers claims and has an excellent track record in devising innovative claims strategies and approaches to resolve these claims. We support many leading insurers, self-insurers and the WA State Government Insurance Commission in these lines.

Our professional lines team has several decades of collective experience in this area and works with insurers covering a very wide range of directors, company officers and professionals across many industries, including legal, financial, construction, engineering, medical, property, education and local government.

SRB Legal also represents various professionals at disciplinary hearings in the State Administrative Tribunal. These involve cases where the professional is facing a charge for a breach of the relevant professional code of conduct or other statutory obligations which are related to a claim for professional negligence.

Our practitioner expertise in this area also includes a leading role in setting up the existing compulsory insurance scheme for lawyers in Western Australia (Law Mutual), including the creation of its internal procedures as well as its management.

How we manage claims

SRB Legal’s professional lines team aims to provide detailed, astute advice on policy coverage right from the outset of each claim, to ensure insurers quickly and fully appreciate their rights and obligations, and that insureds always understand their prospects of success in an argument for cover.

Because many such matters involve detriment to the reputations and livelihoods of the professionals involved, we carefully communicate with insurers, brokers, and insureds throughout the course of each claim, to ensure all parties understand and support our management and resolution of the claim.

Our professional lines team also actively manages the reputational and commercial concerns of insureds as we work to resolve each claim. Our objective in all claims is to protect our clients and their clients, while ensuring we achieve the best possible outcome for each claim through a carefully-chosen strategy leading to a timely resolution.

For more information contact:


Graeme Richards
Byron Winburn-Clarke