Ina Iyer
Director
Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc
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Biography
Ina is a director in the litigation insurance team in Johannesburg. She has specialist knowledge and experience in property/assets and public liability insurance disputes, with additional expertise in personal injury litigation, life insurance and commercial litigation.
Ina advises various insurance clients (primarily commercial business insurers and their underwriting management agents) in policy interpretation and policy response, subrogated recoveries and defences and litigious disputes with policyholders.
Ina completed her articles and worked as an associate at the firm before joining another global law firm in 2015, where she became a partner during 2018. Ina re-joined the firm in 2023.
Professional experience
Collapse all- LLM (Insurance Law) from the University of South Africa
- LLB from the University of Pretoria
- Attorney, qualified in South Africa 2013
- Defending a life insurer in an action by the beneficiaries of a life policy, in circumstances where their claim was rejected owing to the deceased’s death being through natural causes (excluded from cover) as opposed to accidental causes (included in the cover).
- Defending several insurers in relation to actions instituted against them by insureds for motor claims which were rejected on account of the insureds’ breach of the reasonable precautions clause in their policies, on account of speeding.
- Advising an insurer on the merits of numerous third-party approaches made to its insured in relation to a veld fire which spread from the insured’s tenanted premises.
- Advising an insurer on its liability to its insured following the accidental destruction of the insured’s home whilst undergoing minor repairs by the insurer’s agent, and on pursuing a recovery against the agent.
- Defending an insurer in an action against it by its insured for business interruption losses following damage to heat exchangers at a solar power plant.
- Successfully pursuing a subrogated recovery action against a state-owned company for damage to a construction company’s works during repairs by the state-owned company of a water pipe.
- Ina is recognised by Best Lawyers, 2022 and 2023.
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