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Greg MacDougall Partner, Edinburgh +44 (0)131 220 9216 greg.macdougall@clydeco.com Greg specialises in insurance litigation and has experience of a wide range of insurance litigation actions, both in the Court of Session and the Sheriff Court. He is a specialist in motor claims, especially in claims involving serious personal injury claims and complex credit hire or fraud issues. He deals with the civil claims arising from the Glasgow Bin Lorry Tragedy and recently appeared as Junior Council in one of these claims where a spectator of the events sought to be categorised as a secondary victim. Greg is the head of the Scottish Travel and Holiday Claims Team and has an expertise in handling complex holiday sickness and food poisoning claims and accidents abroad. Such complexities have included the investigation of the links between salmonella and ulcerative colitis. He has also dealt with aviation claims and claims on behalf of baggage handlers, ground crew and airlines including claims involving the Montreal Convention.

Cormac Fitzpatrick Partner, Ireland +44 (0)28 9595 2501 cormac.fitzpatrick@clydeco.com Cormac heads the catastrophic injury and large loss services on offer within Northern Ireland. A partner at our Belfast and Derry branch, Cormac has specialised in insurance referred litigation and associated work since 1990. His expertise has led him to act on many cases covering a broad range of areas. These include road traffic accidents, employers’ liability and public liability, professional negligence, fire damage recovery, fraud, subsidence, assault, trespass to the person, litigation involving complex clinical issues, catastrophic injury litigation and substantial damages recovery actions. Cormac advises insurance clients on complex policy indemnity issues, first-party fraud (property and motor) as well as third party fraud. He also advises on health and safety legislation/investigations.

Chris Murray Partner, Manchester +44 (0)161 240 2659 chris.murray@clydeco.com

Matthew Ford Partner, London +44 (0)20 7865 3394 matthew.ford@clydeco.com

Emily List Partner, London +44 (0)20 7865 3328 emily.list@clydeco.com

Chris is a partner with 30 years’ experience handling injury claims and coverage issues for insurers across employers, public, product and motor litigation in multiple jurisdictions. He is regularly instructed to deal with very high value claims litigated in the US; some exceeding $20 million. He has defended claims of the utmost severity in a wide variety of countries such as Morocco, France and Turkey. He deals with claims, Inquiries and Inquests arising from deaths abroad as he is an Assistant Coroner for South Manchester and West London. His connections extend throughout the European legal community via his role as a Judicial Officer for European Swimming (LEN) and as an appointed arbitrator for the International Court of Arbitration for Sport based in Lausanne

Matthew Ford leads our travel and tour operator team, and travel practice group. He advises corporate and insurer clients on significant loss, complex and sensitive injury claims. Matthew is an active member of Airmic, The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) and The Travel and Tourism Lawyers’ Association (TATLA). He regularly contributes to various insurance and industry seminars and publications.

Emily List is a partner in our travel and tour operator liability team at our London office. She acts on behalf of leading tour operators defending claims brought under the Package Travel Regulations (PTR). Emily also advises on complex, large loss employers liability and public liability claims for insurers and corporate clients. She advises major retailers, leisure providers, and international hoteliers on risk management and civil defence strategy. She also delivers regular client training on these topics. Emily’s expertise was recognised in 2021 when she was named a rising star in the Legal 500 list.

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