Iffah Umairah Md Farid

Full Profile

Iffah Umairah Md Farid is an Associate in Clyde & Co’s London office. Iffah specialises in insurance and reinsurance disputes with a focus on international arbitration arising from the Bermuda Form. Iffah has experience acting on behalf of global (re)insurers in the London and Lloyd’s markets, the United States, and Bermuda, and has a particular focus on complex, high-value coverage disputes relating to product liability (including pharmaceutical products and medical devices), mass torts (including climate change-related claims), and excess liability claims.

In addition to this Iffah also advises and supports clients on general coverage investigations, and publishing various articles on litigation trends and class action suits in the United States, with a particular focus on climate change litigation across various states.

Experience

• Acting for Bermuda-based excess liability insurer clients on an arbitration involving a high-value property damage claim and various different types of underlying liability claims.
• Acting for liability insurers in relation to mass litigation arising from the US Opioids Epidemic.
• Providing coverage advice on climate-change related claim notifications in relation to claims-made follow form policies.
• Acting for Bermuda-based excess liability insurers in relation to a complex product liability claim relating to medical devices.
• Advising excess liability insurers in relation to climate change litigation trends and providing insight on major class-action suits based in the US (i.e. hair relaxer litigation).
• Acting for excess liability insurers in relation to claims arising from an oil spill in California.