We trust professionals to give us advice and provide services based on their specialist area of expertise. Accountants, engineers and lawyers are all examples of professionals. If you have been injured or adversely affected by the actions or inaction of a professional, you may have a professional negligence claim.
The advice that professionals offer can be complex, and highly dependent on the circumstances. It is not enough to bring a professional negligence claim if the advice you received did not give you the outcome you wanted. For example, if a financial planner advised you to buy an investment property in a certain area which was then hit by a freak hurricane, that would probably not constitute professional negligence.