Niva Harney-Hiller

Education

• University of Miami Law School, JD
• Maritime and Admiralty Law, University of Miami School of Law, LLM
• Florida International University, BBA (summa cum laude)

Niva Harney-Hiller is a partner in the firm’s Miami office. Niva dedicates her practice to defending premises liability and commercial liability claims. Specifically, her focus is on personal injury, wrongful death, negligent security, property damage, construction defect, product liability, medical and professional malpractice, product liability and commercial litigation. Niva also defends corporate directors and officers against breach of fiduciary duty claims, mismanagement and breach of care allegations, business tort claims and organizational misconduct allegations in high-stakes civil litigation.

Niva was born and raised in Antigua, West Indies. She remains strong to her Caribbean roots.  To that end, she is also barred in the US Virgin Islands and has practiced there for over a decade successfully defending a large array of local businesses on the islands. Additionally, she frequently handles claims throughout the rest of Caribbean including representing foreign governments, individuals and businesses in commercial disputes.

Across her multi-jurisdictional practice, Niva’s clients include retail stores, major hotels & resorts, condominium associations, shopping malls, developers, the world’s premier cruise lines, and major insurance carriers. A large portion of her practice is devoted to representing property owners and condominium associations in premises liability, property damage and negligent security matters.

She earned her Juris Doctor and her LLM in Maritime and Admiralty Law from the University of Miami School of Law. Niva works with a number of marine insurers and cruise lines defending against Jones Act, Unseaworthiness and Maintenance and Cure claims.  

Niva is an active member of the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (CLM), where she earned the CLMP designation.