location_on Sydney
Vanessa Gulesserian
Partner
Vanessa has extensive experience working in insurance litigation. She has defended a wide range of claims including professional indemnity, disciplinary actions against allied health professionals, general liability, and property damage claims. Clients value Vanessa's calm and measured approach.
Overview
A core focus of Vanessa's practice involves acting for allied health professionals and providers and their insurers, including psychologists, chiropractors, radiologists and others. This includes on professional misconduct inquiries and prosecutions involving professional boards, HCCC and AHPRA, as well as for medical institutions in coronial investigations.
She has also acted for various professionals including solicitors, insurance brokers, financial advisers, accountants and engineers in defence of professional indemnity claims. Vanessa's success in this area has come through her empathetic and meticulous approach in supporting the professionals through these challenge issues.
Vanessa has defended high value and complex property damage and business interruption claims involving subsurface engineering, wet pipe systems and general building and construction defects. She has also acted for strata managers, building owners and occupiers to defence claims involving property damage and personal injury, including catastrophic injuries.
Vanessa also advises on complex contractual and indemnity obligations between parties in subcontract arrangements. She has also advised insurers in complex coverage disputes involving the provisions of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth) and on policy interpretation and defence of complex litigated indemnity disputes.
Vanessa regularly presents to clients on a range of insurance and legal topics, and has contributed to a number of articles and publications, including Colin Biggers & Paisley's flagship publication, A Users' Guide to Civil Liability.
Vanessa has a Bachelor of Laws from Macquarie University and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney and is admitted to practice in 2012 in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Federal Court and High Court of Australia.
