Presenters: Mark Birbeck (Principal Lawyer) & Isabel Cusumano (Special Counsel)

Delivered by Meridian Lawyers’ legal experts, this webinar distils the risk dynamics that shaped Australian liability portfolios in 2025 and translates them into practical underwriting and broking priorities for 2026.

The webinar will spotlight how liability portfolios have absorbed persistent claims inflation, and heightened litigation around psychiatric injury and worker to worker incidents. As well as examining emerging risks like forever chemicals and related environmental and product liability considerations, the session will focus on the trends that matter, highlight why they are accelerating, and the pragmatic actions brokers, underwriters, and claims teams can take to protect portfolios and advise insureds effectively in 2026.

Learning objectives
Attendees will gain an understanding of:

• The top liability claims themes of 2025
• The areas to prioritise in 2026
• How to decode claims inflation
• Psychiatric and nervous shock claims
• Managing worker to worker exposures
• Differentiating PI v PL responses
• Issues around notification practices
• Emerging risks

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