Suvetha is a litigation lawyer who is experienced in mass tort, complex litigation and class actions involving recoveries arising from large scale disasters.
Her experience involves acting in several mass tort recovery actions across various jurisdictions and handling the companying complex legal and logistical issues in such large matters. Suvetha is also experienced in assessing and negotiating the settlement of hundreds of quantum assessments of named plaintiffs in individual bushfires. Her deep understanding of common law damage principles have secured her clients timely and excellent results.
In addition to Suvetha’s involvement in large scale matters, she handles a wide scope of matters including fraud, water ingress, Australian Consumer law and defective building works.
Experience
- Acting for five major insurers and 140 plaintiffs in the Supreme Court of South Australia regarding property damage losses arising from a bushfire totalling almost $25 million (judgment pending). Suvetha had sole responsibility for developing and managing the electronic Court Book throughout the four-week trial, marshalling and reviewing evidence and conducting quantum assessments.
- Successfully negotiating the recovery of multiple bushfires actions in Western Australia pre-litigation resulting in her clients recovering over millions without the stress and expense of litigation.
- Acting for two major insurers in the Supreme Court of New South Wales regarding property damage losses arising from a bushfire. Suvetha recovered about $2.6 million in damages and costs for her clients, which resulted in significant distributions for uninsured loss to farmers and business owners who were not in a position to seek recovery of these amounts on their own.
- Acting for two major insurers in the Supreme Court of Western Australia regarding property damage losses arising from a bushfire. Suvetha recovered about $2.6 million in damages and costs for her clients.
- Acting for a major insurer in the Supreme Court of Victoria and recovering over $1.4 million (including 100% of costs) regarding property damage losses arising from a bushfire.
- Negotiating a nearly 100% recovery for her clients caused by flooding as a result of defective building works. This litigated matter involved a number of settlement conference, directions hearings and disputes over discovery and common law assessment of damages.