Samantha Traves
Samantha is a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, at the Queensland University of Technology. She lectures in insurance, commercial and corporate law. Samantha has published a commercial law text which is currently being used by students in Australian Universities and Australian Practitioners as a valued resource. Samantha has consulted to our insurance group since 2003.
She has published most extensively in the area of insurance law including articles on many insurance related issues, including fraudulent claims, s54 of the Insurance Contracts Act, double insurance and contribution, defence cost clauses in liability insurance policies and directors and officers insurance. She is a regular speaker at specialist insurance law conferences convened by the Queensland Law Society in conjunction with the Australian Insurance Law Association and has also been invited to speak at the National Claims Management Symposium & Brisbane Insurance Forum.
Samantha has extensive experience in the provision of education to members of the insurance industry. She received an award from the President of the Australian and New Zealand Institute for Insurance and Finance in recognition of the contribution she has made to the education of the insurance law industry and is a past recipient of the Australian Insurance Law Association Insurance Law prize.
