By: Andrew Hooker 

Duration: 57.30 

The important fundamental principles of interpretation and analysis can often be lost in the fog, and this seminar will assist in getting back to basics and to understand how it all fits together.

This workshop content includes fundemental principles such as:

    How does a policy work?

              Operative Clause
              Conditions
              Exclusions

    Causation and Proximate Cause

              Common Law Principles:
              Good Faith
              Duty of Disclosure

    Common Issues:

              Indemnity/replacement

Andrew is a specialist insurance lawyer. He has spent 20 years providing insurance legal advice and this has included:

- Partner in one of New Zealand's leading insurance specialist law firms;
- Chief legal counsel for one of New Zealand's largest insurance companies;

Prior to working as a lawyer, Andrew worked in claims and sales for a major New Zealand insurance company, and also set up and ran a nationwide specialist insurance investigation company.

Andrew practices as a specialist insurance lawyer in Albany, on Auckland's north shore and a director of Claims Information Specialists Ltd, running an insurance information website.