Band 2
Provided by Matthew Ford
Matthew’s key focus is to give an excellent service to travel and tour operator clients. He comes with many years of experience in defending complex, highly sensitive and large loss/high value international casualty claims. He is a market leader amongst travel practitioners, having advised many of the largest tour operators and insurers and successfully challenged numerous high value and high profile travel claims.
His day to day practice includes class actions, fatal accidents, complex catastrophic injuries including brain injuries and spinal injuries and chronic pain claims. He manages a specialist team including travel abuse, international Regulatory and cross-border RTA sub-groups to offer expert advice in these niche, but growing areas. He has an extensive portfolio of cases, often dealing with jurisdictional disputes, cross border issues and international recoveries. He regularly advises insurers, brokers, loss adjusters, tour operators and travel agents on regulatory issues, crisis management, how to deal with fraudulent matters and the defensibility of claims. Matthew is also at the forefront of the industry in educating clients on emerging risks, trends and new Regulations.
Provided by Chambers
Matthew Ford is head of Clyde & Co's travel group. He has expertise in dealing with gastric illness cases, road traffic accidents and various catastrophic injury claims. He primarily represents hotels, tour operators and insurers.
Provided by Chambers
Matthew is very easy to work with, very knowledgeable and very quick to respond.
He has a really good knowledge of the travel industry and good perspective on insurance companies - he knows how they would want matters to be handled.
Matthew is very easy to work with, very knowledgeable and very quick to respond.
He has a really good knowledge of the travel industry and good perspective on insurance companies - he knows how they would want matters to be handled.