Insurance Law

Contact: Rebecca Stevens, Partner and Allison Bailey, Senior Associate; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia)

Following on from the New South Wales Court of Appeal decision in GIO General Limited v Centennial Newstan Pty Ltd¹ in which the Court found an indemnity and insurance clause in a contract in the ‘Erect Safe’ mould operated to provide indemnity to a principal,² the decision of Jackson v McDonald’s Australia³ follows that line of reasoning in that the principal extension clause was activated to cover a contractual indemnity in a contract between McDonald’s Australia (McDonald’s) and one of its cleaning contractors.

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