Arelene Lowry

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About Arelene Lowry

Arelene has more than 20 years’ of varied litigation and dispute resolution experience. Her areas of specialisation include commercial litigation (indemnity, liability and quantum), workers’ compensation (WC), insurance and motor vehicle accidents (MVA), including specific conduct of all aspects of catastrophic claims, seriously injured, as well as complex medical, quantum and intricate liability issues.Arelene has managed matters with significant volumes of documentation, with an attention to detail which allows proactive matter management and early claims resolution (where appropriate), despite the inherent complexity. She also has a comprehensive understanding of accident reconstruction, engineering concepts and difficult quantum analysis.Arelene’s major claims (liability & injuries) and class action capability translates to an adeptness to operate effectively and efficiently in a high volume practice, no matter the claim size, delivering timely resolution and often without recourse to litigation.Arelene has extensive knowledge advising on and commencing proceedings for recovery of monies in liability, WC and MVA claims. She has worked as part of dedicated defendant/respondent panel firm teams on liability, indemnity, WC and MVA claims in both Northern Territory (NT) and South Australia (SA).Arelene prides herself on providing practical advice, which focuses of achieving client objectives, while appreciating the importance of every claim and its significance to her client’s overall portfolio, no matter its size or complexity. Arelene is industrious in finding new approaches to deal with frequent and often long-standing areas of dispute.She has in-depth experience working in both SA and NT jurisdictions and alternative dispute resolution models.ExperienceActing for private and self-insurers, state and territory government departments, local councils and compulsory third-party insurers.Instructing solicitor for the respondent in a matter seeking significant reduction of benefits payable due to contributory negligence factors - McMillan v Territory Insurance Office Board [2011] NTSC 72Frequent solicitor advocacy appearances for interlocutory matters with successful outcomes in the Federal Court of Australia and all SA and NT courts of competent jurisdiction. Risk analysis and liability assessment for leading national insurers.Regularly advising on complex and significant insurance, indemnity, liability, and OH & S issues, including formulating detailed assessments of liability and quantum, and forecasting financial risk.