Your client has suffered a serious injury.
Their income has stopped.
The family is under pressure.
And you’re the first call they make.
Not their lawyer – you.
What often goes unseen in that moment are the legal and financial consequences that follow. They don’t announce themselves. They surface gradually, escalate quickly, and can be difficult to unwind once decisions are made.
Zaparas Lawyers and MST Lawyers invite you to a professional dinner designed specifically for accountants and financial advisers:
TOPIC: When Serious Illness and Injury Changes Everything. What Advisors need to Know About Financial and Legal Risk
This seminar focuses on identifying potential compensation following injury or illness, recognising emerging legal risks that affect financial security, and knowing when to involve specialist lawyers.
- Date: Tuesday 17 March 2026
- Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm
- Venue: Gardiner Hotel, Malvern
- Format: Seated dinner | Limited to 30–40 advisers
- Register here
Who this event is for:
This briefing is designed for accountants and financial planners who:
- Have clients facing serious injury, illness or occupational disease
- Are managing income disruption or changing decision-making capacity
- See families under pressure around financial decisions
- Want to know when to refer—and to who
What you’ll take away:
- How to spot compensation opportunities
- Legal risk red flags to watch for
- Clear triggers for when to refer (and to who)
- Where advisers can step in – and where you shouldn’t
- A practical Quick Reference Guide you can use immediately
Speakers
- Kehela Vandenberg – Senior Associate & Occupational and Dust Disease Practice Leader, Zaparas Lawyers
- Carmel Morrison – Principal, Family Law | Accredited Family Law Specialist, MST Lawyers.
- Andrea Olsson – Principal, Wills & Estates | Accredited Specialist (Wills & Estates), MST Lawyers
Why this matters
Early recognition and timely referral can prevent disputes, protect client outcomes, reduce pressure on families, and keep you out of matters beyond your role.
The Agenda
Session 1: How compensation and personal injury claims play out over time
Kehela Vandenberg
Kehela will explain how occupational disease and personal injury claims — including long-latency conditions — play out over time, and where advisers commonly encounter uncertainty around income, compensation structures and long-term financial outcomes.
Session 2: How injury and illness put pressure on families and increase risk
Carmel Morrison
Carmel will discuss what to consider when injury and illness place pressure on families leading to separations and family law proceedings as a result of declining health and income loss. She will explain which issues need to be managed well before separating clients recognise them as family law concerns including the death of a party who has or is about to receive a claim payout.
Session 3: Show how injury and illness quickly create estate and capacity risk
Andrea Olsson
Andrea will explore the estate planning moments that injury and illness create, including when wills, powers of attorney and guardianship arrangements should be reviewed or put in place to protect clients and their families.
Please register your spot. Limited to 30-40 advisors.
