Katarina Bilandzic
Katarina.Bilandzic@kennedyslaw.com
+61 3 8456 6206
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Profile
Katarina Bilandzic is a Special Counsel in Kennedys Melbourne office. Katarina has 15 years’ experience in defending personal injury claims against metropolitan and rural hospitals, disability service providers, prison operators, employers and occupiers.
With a dual biomedical science/law qualification, Katarina has a keen interest in medical defence litigation and has acted for, and provided advice to, professional indemnity insurance providers and medical defence organisations and their members on issues including medical negligence claims in the County and Supreme Courts of Victoria, and coronial investigations and inquests.
Katarina has also represented legal practitioners in ‘lost chance’ claims arising out of alleged negligent advice and management of personal injury litigation including medical negligence claims.
Qualifications and admissions
- Bachelor of Biomedical Science | University of Melbourne | 2002
- Bachelor of Science (Honours) | University of Melbourne | 2003
- Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) | University of Melbourne | 2006
- Supreme Court of Victoria | 2008
Work highlights
- Acting for Victorian country and metropolitan hospitals and rural general practitioners in claims arising out of alleged medical negligence including defending claims arising out of alleged negligent surgical technique, failure to warn, failure to diagnose, and delayed diagnosis and treatment.
- Acting for Victorian country and metropolitan hospitals in litigated claims for nervous shock by family members arising out of deaths of patients.
- Acting for metropolitan hospitals, disability service providers and private prison operators in Coronial investigations and Inquests.
- Acting for radiology providers in medical malpractice cases concerning imaging deficiencies.
- Referring impairment assessments to the Victorian Medical Panel.
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