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The insurance industry has refuted a court ruling that underwriters should pay insurance money for suicide due to depression caused by a car accident.

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In the “Insurance Act Review” published by the Korea Insurance Research Institute (KIRI) on Monday, underwriters said they must first examine whether depression amounts to injury before paying injury and death insurance money.

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The industry argued that although the court had already defined depression as injury and made a legal judgment, the case should be judged based on the injury criteria defined by the insurance policy.

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The claimant subscribed to the driver’s insurance of an insurance company, which included a special contract for traffic accident death, with his mother as the beneficiary. The mother had a car accident while driving on a rainy night in 2017. She suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression after being trapped in the vehicle for a long time before being rescued. The mother eventually killed herself.

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The contract stipulated that the underwriter pays insurance money of 100 million won ($77,000) if the subscriber dies “as a direct result of injuries due to a car accident.”

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The claimant requested the company to pay traffic accident death insurance money. However, the company refused to pay the money, claiming that it could not think the mother died directly from the injury and that the underwriter could be exempted if subscribers killed themselves.

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A lower court denied the obligation to pay the insurance money, judging that the mother’s death was not the direct result of injury due to the traffic accident. It did not inevitably result from depression or occur in a state of mental or physical loss.

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However, the Supreme Court reversed and remanded the lower court’s ruling, judging it was mistaken by denying the causal relationship between the traffic accident and the mother’s death despite her doctor’s opinion that there was a causal relationship between the “traffic accident, depression, and the suicide.”

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The revocation and remand trial ended on Nov. 25 with compulsory mediation.

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The industry opinion paper said that the lower court and the Supreme Court had judged that the mother’s depression amounted to injury without separate judgment. However, the paper noted that one must first examine the concept of injury defined by the special contract on traffic injury and death.

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“Injury usually means physical injury, and the term injury in the car insurance means a wound. Therefore, injury in this accident can mean physical injury and wound under the special contract on traffic injury and death,” said Hwang Hyeon-ah, a researcher at KIRI.

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Pointing out that the ruling presupposes that depression is an injury according to the driver’s insurance traffic accident death special agreement without further argument, Hwang said it might cause concerns about confusion in the meaning of injuries compensated for by accident insurance, automobile insurance and driver’s insurance in the future.

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“Before judging whether the mother committed suicide as a direct result of depression, they should have reviewed first whether depression constitutes injury under Article 1 of the Special Rules,” Hwang added.

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5-Star Personal Injury Lawyers & Law Firms 2022

5-Star Personal Injury Lawyers & Law Firms 2022

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Fighting for the rights of vulnerable clients

While it may never reach the heights of the United States, Australia is becoming one of the most litigious countries for personal injury, along with seeing higher levels of damages and more cases going to trial. The personal injury law market in Australia grew by 2.3{c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8} in 2022, with revenue amounting to $1.8bn, according to statistics from IBISWorld.

Moving towards 2023, there’s no sign of that demand dropping off. Delays in medical assessments and ongoing government updates have taken a toll on investigations, and there are potential issues around COVID-19 vaccinations – a significant opportunity for personal injury lawyers’ expertise.

Therefore, the demand for strong, empathetic and driven personal injury lawyers is considerable. Now in their second year, Australasian Lawyer’s 5-Star Personal Injury Lawyers & Law Firms awards recognise the incredible work in this field, and the tireless pursuit of good outcomes for clients.

“We provide incentive-based bonuses that meet and exceed our competitors to attract the best lawyers in the industry”

Anthony Cummins, Gair Legal

 

Reflecting on what is needed to be a success in the sector, Richard Johnson of nationwide firm McCabes, a barrister at the High Court of Australia and a personal injury specialist, describes a combination of skills.

“You’ve got to be technically adept, understand the law and the cases that apply in each of the matters you’re dealing with,” he explains.

“There has to be pragmatism and sensibility there too, and you have to have good relationships with the lawyers opposite you. Being able to manage those relationships from every angle is one of the most useful skills you can have.”

The firm’s perspective

Creating an environment for lawyers to thrive is a complicated task. For example, 5-Star winners Gair Legal opted to set up multiple offices in New South Wales outside of the CBD to offer their lawyers a better work-life balance whilst maintaining a team structure.

Finance director Anthony Cummins expanded on the initiatives they use to get the best out of their staff. “We have a casual office dress policy, except the court and client attendances. Staff can choose to work in sports attire and have the flexibility to program their sporting and health activities around their work life,” he says. “We provide incentive-based bonuses that meet and exceed our competitors to attract the best lawyers in the industry.”

Part of Gair’s success is their founding principles are still respected today. The firm began when a leading lawyer left a large national firm to strike out on their own.

“It is an environment where every lawyer is valued and allowed to thrive to their best capacity in a supportive and team-based environment. As a result, we have attracted quality senior leaders and lawyers who have created a strong leadership group who cares,” Cummins says. “The lawyers and staff at Gair Legal care about the work product they provide and care about the people and processes involved.”

All of their lawyers are experts in litigation and mediation, and they actively seek early resolution for the best possible outcomes for clients. Cummins highlights how the firm’s superpower lies with its staff.

“We are differentiated by our highly specialised legal team who are willing and able to ‘go the extra mile’ to ensure we provide the best service to our clients. We mentor and develop our team to ensure a consistent and high level of work output.”

And he adds, “We remain highly specialised and focused on all aspects of workers’ compensation claims for the benefit of insurers and employers.”

Despite Gair Legal’s stellar reputation, their team is not standing still. The firm is focused on learning from clients and wants to keep refining their operating methods.

“Gair Legal actively listens to clients and works with them to achieve beneficial outcomes. We always remain open to feedback, ensuring that continual learning and improvement remain the cornerstone of our mantra,” explains Cummins.

Also a 2022 winner is Wendy Nixson, a practice leader and special counsel in medical law at Shine Lawyers. For her, one of the challenging parts of the job is connecting with people from different walks of life and helping them start their journey to recovery.

Nixson has represented two clients before the Supreme Court of Queensland, which she says has been invaluable in developing her perspective on the cases she works on.

“We’re all human beings, and we’re all susceptible to someone making a mistake,” Nixson says.

“We’ve spent years working with the right experts to help us create the cases and pick our way through the relevant facts. We have a team of nurses who help us do our work, so if you pick up the phone and talk to us, you’ll be talking to someone who understands medicine.”

“Giving clients closure, as well as the financial means to move on and get appropriate treatment, brings me great satisfaction in my work”

Daniel Opare, Shine Lawyers

 

The lawyer’s standpoint

Personal injury lawyers deal with clients in vulnerable situations. Add in the need for solid medical expertise, and you have a complicated yet highly personal area of law.

“We place great trust in our healthcare system and when failures occur, the outcome can be devastating,” says Shine Lawyers practice leader in medical law Daniel Opare, one of Australasian Lawyer‘s 5-Star Personal Injury Lawyers. “Giving clients closure, as well as the financial means to move on and get appropriate treatment, brings me great satisfaction in my work.”

According to Clare Eves, national practice leader and medical negligence expert at Shine Lawyers, the human factor is particularly important. It takes a unique combination of expertise, empathy and understanding to get clients the outcomes they need.

“Every single client I’ve had has been very much like me,” explains Eves, also one of the 5-Star winners. “Just a normal person living their life, worrying about the small stuff like what they’re going to wear to work tomorrow, or what they’re going to have for dinner. And then the next day, life is just completely tipped on its head through absolutely no fault of their own.”

“I can’t change the past, but I can help my clients navigate a whole new future,” she adds. “If you have a really complex claim, it is really essential that you get the right lawyer that has experience in these types of claims, knows which doctors and barristers to work with, and knows how to navigate the process properly.”

Aside from representing clients, many of the winners are also prolific contributors to discussions about the latest legal issues and challenges in the personal injury space.

Kate Henderson, partner at BPC Lawyers and also a 2022 winner, has written extensively on personal injury, including commentary around issues related to COVID-19, and the use of alternative dispute resolution to solve personal injury claims. She says that mediation in particular has been on the rise over the past few years and is increasingly being seen as a better alternative to a full trial.

“These days, many legal disputes between people are resolved outside of courts by alternative dispute resolution means such as mediation,” Henderson writes.

“The growth of mediation as a way of solving legal disagreements was an inevitable response to the expense, delays and stress involved in taking a matter to court for judgment,” she explains.

“Whereas litigation in the court environment is adversarial by nature, with each party’s legal representatives pursuing, to the best of their ability, a ‘win’ for their client and a loss for the opponent, mediation is a more collaborative effort by the opposing parties to negotiate a workable solution they can both live with and move on.”

“We’ve spent years working with the right experts to help us create the cases and pick our way through the relevant facts. We have a team of nurses who help us do our work, so if you pick up the phone and talk to us, you’ll be talking to someone who understands medicine”

Wendy Nixson, Shine Lawyers

 

Growth with no end in sight

According to Johnson, the adaptability of lawyers and firms in the personal injury space means we’re not likely to see a lull in business.

“I think the legal profession has been really adaptive in its use of technology,” Johnson says. “Because of this, and the ability of plaintiff solicitors to issue claims throughout lockdowns, the expectations around claims dropping off just didn’t happen as much as we thought it would.”

Johnson also says we’re likely to see interesting issues emerge, particularly around concussion sports and institutional abuse. Although Australia introduced a National Redress Scheme for children in institutions who experienced abuse, Johnson says that many claimants are not necessarily going to go through its process.

“I think the intention of the Redress Scheme was to reduce the amount of claims,” Johnson says. “That hasn’t had the impact that was thought to be had, so I think we’re going to see more ongoing claims in this area.

“But we’re also seeing claims increase in every other sector that you’d ordinarily see, so I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of work for us over the coming year.”

 

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Australasian Lawyer obtained feedback from leaders in the law profession over a period of 15 weeks. The research team began by conducting a survey with a wide range of personal injury lawyers to determine the key value that law firms can contribute to their clients’ cases.

The in-depth information provided by the participants regarding their clients’ needs enabled the research team to assign weighted values for the law firms’ services. Then, the research team sought the opinions of personal injury lawyers themselves as to which law firms they would recommend other than those they were currently working with.

At the end of the research period, the law firms and lawyers that received the highest rankings in terms of work quality, specialist expertise and client service quality were declared 5-Star awardees in the field of personal injury law.

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Wake Up Call: Midsize Firms Top Big Ones in Tough First Half

Wake Up Call: Midsize Firms Top Big Ones in Tough First Half

In today’s column, plaintiffs attorneys asked a choose for far more costs and prices as sanctions from Fb and its regulation business Adams and Reese mentioned it launched a follow to assistance historically Black schools and universities and a former in-residence lawyer convicted for murder faces many years in prison.

  • Main off, the 100 best-earning firms as ranked by the American Lawyer noticed their client need shrink by .2{c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8} in the year’s first 50 percent as international financial ailments deteriorated. In the meantime, midsize U.S. corporations saw their need climb 1.7{c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8} in the similar time period and also had a scaled-down drop in productivity when compared with even larger companies, according to a new report from Thomson Reuters Institute. (Reuters)
  • Huge Regulation firms’ deal activity is down sharply this yr, but so considerably the functions, which had been battling furiously for talent into late past 12 months, haven’t started out producing major work cuts. (American Law firm)
  • Plaintiffs attorneys requested a federal choose to hit Fb and its law business, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, with extra fees and prices as a sanction in the litigation in excess of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. (The Recorder)

Lawyers, Legislation Companies

  • New Orleans headquartered Adams and Reese claimed it released a exercise to support traditionally Black schools and universities and minority-serving institutes. (AdamsandReese.com)
  • A former Atlanta application organization senior counsel will be qualified for parole in about 30 several years when he’s 81 decades old soon after his conviction for murder for hitting a gentleman with his Mercedes. (ABA Journal) A New York point out judicial commission called for removing of a city decide accused of pointing a gun at a black defendant. (New York Regulation Journal)
  • Kutak Rock signed a 10-year lease on new workplaces in Denver. (Denver Business Journal)

Laterals, Moves, In-home

  • Jones Day claimed the inaugural decide of the Georgia state-vast company court, Walter Davis, is, after a few yrs on the bench, returning to the firm as a associate in its securities litigation & SEC enforcement follow in Atlanta. He previously used 17 several years at Jones Day, in which he was a lover and led the Atlanta office’s securities litigation & SEC enforcement observe in London, Fried Frank hired personal fairness attorney James Renahan as a husband or wife. He joins after 20 several years at Travers Smith McGuireWoods employed O’Melveny & Myers corporate business growth government Robert Fox as taking care of director for personal fairness. (McGuireWoods)
  • Akin Gump world wide money restructuring legal professional Sam Brodie returned to the company as a lover in London. He beforehand spent six and a 50 {c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8} many years at the business, like as partner, and returns from Shearman & Sterling White & Scenario employed Allen & Overy level of competition and shopper attorney Stefanie Benson as a husband or wife in its world-wide antitrust follow based in Sydney. (White & Situation)
  • Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale employed trademark attorneys Amanda Roach and Angela S. Kalsi as “officers” in Chicago. They sign up for from Amin Talati Wasserman, in which they were associates Raines Feldman extra 3 corporate and personal bankruptcy companions to its new New York place of work. They involve bankruptcy and restructuring legal professional Carollynn Callari, a previous Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Venable legal professional who started her very own boutique, from which she arrives with previous Significant Regulation attorney David Forsh. Former Willkie corporate and finance lawyer Gregg Shulklapper arrives from his very own boutique Nixon Peabody introduced in actual estate attorney Craig Jeffrey in Chicago as a lover. He comes from Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila. (Nixon Peabody)
  • Option dispute resolution providers company JAMS stated previous Texas Northern District federal individual bankruptcy court docket chief decide Harlin DeWayne Hale joined its panel in Dallas. JAMS also added household regulation legal professional Gregg M. Herman to its Chicago panel and retired California county excellent courtroom presiding decide Barry Baskin to its Walnut Creek, California, panel. (JAMSadr.com) In-household veteran Elisabeth Sullivan, who about a calendar year ago still left chemical multinational INEOS Team Ltd. to be a part of Uk bookstore chain Waterstones as top rated attorney, took a occupation as London-based common counsel at “tech-enabled” procurement and provide-chain advisor Efficio. (LinkedIn)
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Opendoor Hires Winklevoss-Backed Crypto Firm’s Top Lawyer (2)

Opendoor Hires Winklevoss-Backed Crypto Firm’s Top Lawyer (2)

Sydney Schaub left her work as chief legal officer for Gemini Believe in Co., a cryptocurrency exchange launched by the Winklevoss brothers, to join on the net serious estate enterprise Opendoor Technologies Inc. as top law firm.

Schaub invested practically the previous 4 several years at the enterprise begun by bitcoin billionaires Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Gemini just lately get rid of 10{c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8} of its staff members amid a downturn in the electronic asset sector.

Opendoor, which went public in late 2020 by merging with a specific function acquisition corporation, is hunting to reinvent the home-acquiring system. The business, whose organization is concentrated on so-known as iBuying know-how, expanded earlier this calendar year into the suburbs surrounding New York City.

Schaub “has been instrumental in earning organizations that are disrupting previous means of executing business enterprise into house names,” Eric Wu, Opendoor’s co-founder and chief executive officer, explained in a statement.

A Gemini spokeswoman claimed the corporation promoted deputy common counsel Niels Gjertson to common counsel and he will oversee authorized, compliance and regulatory affairs. He joined Gemini in 2019 soon after just about five yrs at Square Inc., a Jack Dorsey-led economical companies enterprise now regarded as Block Inc.

Gemini, valued very last 12 months at $7 billion, hired Schaub in 2018 just after she put in a lot more than a 12 months as common counsel for e-commerce fashion retail system Hire the Runway Inc. Prior to that Schaub put in practically six yrs at Sq., wherever she was named co-acting general counsel in 2016 upon the exit of former legal chief Dana Wagner.

Schaub also labored for just about five years at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which recruited her specifically out of Harvard Legislation College in 2007. She did not answer to a ask for for comment about her departure from Gemini.

Schaub, in a assertion July 26 on her LinkedIn profile, thanked her former colleagues at Gemini and claimed she was “looking ahead to a new challenge disrupting however another controlled field.”

Opendoor Function

At Opendoor, Schaub moves into a job earlier held by Elizabeth Stevens, a previous head of authorized and brokerage at the corporation. Stevens left in September to develop into typical counsel for One particular, a monetary technology application backed by Walmart Inc.

Opendoor gave Stevens nearly $5.9 million in total payment throughout fiscal 2021, the business disclosed in a proxy statement filed in April. However, Stevens forfeited 75{c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8} of the roughly $5.6 million in inventory awards when she still left Opendoor.

The San Francisco-primarily based firm went public in December 2020 just after combining with Social Cash Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II, an entity backed by enterprise capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, a serial dealmaker in the SPAC space.

Latham & Watkins suggested Opendoor on that offer, when Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom took the guide for Palihapitiya’s SPAC. Opendoor has designed a $9 billion war upper body as it seeks to shake up the US residential real estate market by getting and offering houses, Bloomberg documented previous 12 months.

Schaub is a founding member of TechGC, a personal, invitation-only neighborhood of law division leaders and in-property legal professionals in the technologies sector that share best tactics, network with one particular a different, and exchange job assistance.

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Three Big Law Firms Aid Amazon $3.49 Billion One Medical Buy (1)

Three Big Law Firms Aid Amazon .49 Billion One Medical Buy (1)

Amazon.com Inc.‘s bid to purchase A person Clinical and split into the US overall health care sector is acquiring assistance from 3 Huge Regulation firms.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is advising Amazon even though Cooley and Ropes & Grey are representing San Francisco-primarily based 1Lifetime Health care Inc., parent of most important care enterprise A person Healthcare.

Just one Clinical operates 182 health care offices in 25 marketplaces in the US. Prospects shell out a subscription fee for accessibility to doctors and 24-hour digital expert services. Amazon’s acquire of 1 Professional medical for $3.49 billion in cash would be the 3rd-premier deal in the Seattle-centered company’s historical past.

Paul Weiss corporate partners Krishna Veeraraghavan and Kyle Seifried are counseling Amazon. Paul Weiss recruited Veeraraghavan final calendar year from Sullivan & Cromwell in a large-profile lateral go.

Steven Tonsfeldt leads the Cooley group. Cooley hired him in 2016 after the Silicon Valley dealmaker led the mergers and acquisitions observe at O’Melveny & Myers.

Other Cooley attorneys symbolizing A person Health-related include things like company associates Matthew Hemington and Annie Lieberman, as nicely as affiliate Gaël Hagan.

Ropes & Gray health and fitness care companions Jennifer Romig and Christina Bergeron are doing the job with a 50 {c024931d10daf6b71b41321fa9ba9cd89123fb34a4039ac9f079a256e3c1e6e8}-dozen associates for 1 Health care.

Cooley’s Tonsfeldt and Hemington and Ropes & Gray’s Romig very last yr encouraged 1 Health care on its $2.1 billion all-inventory get of Iora Well being Inc. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom recommended Boston-based Iora, a primary treatment service provider, on the offer.

Skadden is the place Seifried spent a dozen a long time before joining Paul Weiss as counsel in 2017. He built lover at the business 2020.

Paul Weiss was co-counsel very last 12 months to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. on the film studio’s approximately $9 billion sale to Amazon.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore encouraged Amazon on its MGM acquisition, the next-greatest takeover by the e-commerce large right after its $14 billion obtain in 2017 of Whole Foods Marketplace Inc. Sullivan & Cromwell encouraged Amazon on that transaction.

Amazon in 2018 made its initially health treatment foray by paying out $1 billion to order PillPack Inc., a Boston-dependent on the web pharmacy startup recommended by Goodwin Procter.

Amazon’s provide for 1 Medical consists of the target’s internet credit card debt, in accordance to Bloomberg. One particular Clinical had acquired takeover fascination from CVS Well being Corp. and other individuals, Bloomberg documented this thirty day period, citing sources acquainted with the subject.

1 Medical’s most modern proxy assertion shows that its typical counsel, Lisa Mango, received extra than $5 million in complete compensation in 2021. Mango joined 1 Health care in January 2016 and she was promoted to authorized chief in June 2018.

Amazon’s David Zapolsky has been the company’s top rated in-home attorney because 2012. His year-in excess of-year full compensation dropped to $163,000 past yr from $17.2 million in 2020. During that time Zapolsky sold off extra than $19 million in Amazon stock, Bloomberg Legislation claimed previously this 12 months.

Bloomberg noted Thursday on Amazon breaking a quarterly record for lobbying Congress by paying out just about $5 million to guard versus laws that could split up the enterprise and other know-how giants.

— With Matt Day and John Tozzi