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TressCox 'Insurance Contracts Act' Seminar Series 2010 (Event)

Health Business: March 2010 (Newsletter Article)

In this issue:

• Medical Indemnity and Graduate Medical Students
• Contractor or Employee for Workers Compensation Purposes
• Mandatory Reporting now in place for Queensland Medical Practitioners
• VMO Contract Arrangements in NSW

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Insurance Law Update (Newsletter Article)

What happens if a claimant wants to sue a professional indemnity insurer directly? For one reason or another, there may be no viable middleman – i.e. the insured.

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Margin Lending - Issuers and Advisers must be licensed (Newsletter Article)

The Corporations Legislation Amendment (Financial Services Modernisation) Act (‘Act’) (which commenced on 1 January 2010) now classifies a ‘margin lending facility’ as a financial product.  As a result, issuers of margin lending facilities and intermediaries who provide advice on margin lending facilities (such as financial advisers) have until 30 June 2010 to apply for an AFS licence or a variation to an existing AFS licence to comply with the new  licensing requirements.

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Brennan v O’Meara [2009] NSWSC 1374 (11 December 2009) (Caseflash)

On 11 December 2009, Davies J of the Supreme Court of NSW examined the meaning “become mentally ill” in relation to the Special Conditions in a Contract for the sale of land.

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