Matthew Ford

Career

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.