Claims Club member: Josephine Suppiah

Josephine Suppiah is a managing consultant at Marsh Risk Consulting's Forensic Accounting and Claims Services (FACS) Practice.

Based in the London office, Suppiah specialises in loss of profits claims, stock loss claims and employee fidelity claims. She was also involved in preparation of expert reports for submission to court in litigation. She has handled cases which included a mix of large and multinational insured in varied industries, in the UK, Europe, Caribbean and South America. This includes managing a major business interruption claim of over £20 million.

Suppiah has also been involved in completing business interruption reviews where she applies her business interruption experience to pre-loss cover issues and loss scenarios as well as working on business interruption Claims with the rest of the FACS team. Her areas of expertise include telecommunication industry, national rail industry, hotel industry, electricity generators, wholesale distributors and retailers.

Suppiah joined Marsh Risk Consulting in April 2007. She has brought experience in investigating and evaluating loss of profit or loss of earnings cases across different industries, varying in size from £5,000 to over £100 million.

In addition, she also has experience of investigation and preparation of fraud/employee fidelity claims on behalf of the insured, in the review, preparation and calculation of business interruption, stock loss and material damage claims.

Suppiah has extensive experience with the catastrophe team, working in the Cayman Islands and Jamaica in calculation of various business interruption and property losses following Hurricane Ivan. Suppiah also assisted the insurers in calculating the losses due to hurricanes Wilma and Emily in Mexico. Josephine has also been involved in the completion of business interruption exposure reviews for a wide portfolio of organisations, including telecoms and manufacturing, with recommendations for cover and calculation of ‘maximum' and ‘normal' loss estimates.