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Pursuant to the Insurance Contracts Act your duty to disclose all relevant information is set out below.
DUTY OF DISCLOSURE
Before entering into a contract of general insurance, you have a duty, under the Insurance Contracts Act, to disclose to us every matter that you are aware of, or could reasonably be expected to be aware of, that is relevant to our decision about insuring you and if so, on what terms. You have the same duty to disclose these matters to us before you renew, extend, vary or reinstate a contract of general insurance.
Your duty however does not require disclosure of matter –
- that diminishes the risk to be undertaken by us;
- that is of common knowledge;
- that we know or, in the ordinary course of our business, ought to know;
- as to which compliance with your duty is waived by us.
You should note that your duty continues after the proposal form has been completed until the policy is entered into, i.e. until the date we receive instructions to bind cover.
NON-DISCLOSURE
If you fail to comply with your duty of disclosure, we may be entitled to reduce our liability under the policy in respect of a claim or may cancel the policy. If your non-disclosure is fraudulent, we may also have the option of avoiding the contract from its beginning. It is therefore vital that you enquire of all entities comprising the insured, including senior staff, before completing the proposal form and before you sign any declaration confirming no change in the information disclosed.
RETROACTIVE LIABILITY
The proposed insurance may be limited by a retroactive date either stated in the schedule or endorsed onto the policy. Where the retroactive cover provided by the proposed policy is subject to such a date, then the policy does not cover any claim arising from actual or alleged act, error, omission or conduct occurring prior to such retroactive date.
AVERAGE PROVISION
One of the insuring provisions of the proposed insurance may provide that where the amount required to dispose of a claim exceeds the limit of the sum insured in the policy then We shall be liable only for a proportion of the total costs and expenses. This shall be the same proportion of the total expenses as the policy limit bears to the total amount required to dispose of the claim.
SURRENDER OF WAIVER OF ANY RIGHT OF CONTRIBUTION OR INDEMNITY
If another person or company is liable to compensate you or hold you harmless for part or all of any loss or damage otherwise covered by our policy, but you agree with that person or company (either before or after the inception of our policy) that you would not seek to recover any loss or damage from them, we will not cover you for this loss or damage.
ABOUT PACIFIC INDEMNITY
Pacific Indemnity Underwriting Solutions Pty Ltd, ABN 14 606 511 639, specialises in Professional Risk insurance (including Professional Indemnity Insurance, Malpractice Insurance, Information & Computer Technology Insurance, Management Liability Insurance and similar products).
Pacific Indemnity issues insurance policies on behalf of Insurance Australia Limited (IAL) ABN 11 000 016 722. IAL’s Australian Financial Service Licence number is 227681. The Pacific Indemnity AFSL Number is 480863.
With effect 1 August 2017, Pacific Indemnity issues policies on behalf of Insurance Australia Limited ABN 11 000 016 722 AFSL 227681 (IAL), following the transfer of CGU’s licence to IAL.
WHOLESALE ONLY
Pacific Indemnity Underwriting Solutions Pty Ltd is only licensed to offer or provide General Insurance products or services which do not include any of the following types of General Insurance (which are defined by the Corporations Act as “retail”): Motor Vehicle, Home Building, Home Contents, Sickness and Accident, Consumer Credit, Travel, Personal or Domestic Property, Medical Indemnity or any other kind of General Insurance which has been prescribed by the Corporations Regulations.