Casualty
Michael is a partner in the Dispute Resolution Group at Clyde & Co in Dubai. He moved to Dubai in January 2016, prior to which he spent 8 years with Clyde & Co in the UK. Michael has extensive experience advising litigants on a wide range of complex liability and coverage disputes, with a particular focus on property & casualty, product liability & recall, and medical malpractice & healthcare risks. Michael is recommended for Insurance by Legal 500.
Direct Lines
+971 4 384 4277 +971 56 509 4671 michael.ducker@clydeco.comMain Office
Dubai
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Michael has a particular focus on complex policy coverage and business interruption advice, working on claims in the commercial property, hospitality, manufacturing and energy sectors. Specifically, Michael has represented re/insurers in several significant tower fire claims in the GCC, regularly speaking on the issues that such claims present.
In respect of medical malpractice and healthcare, Michael regularly advises medical professionals, hospitals and clinics on both contentious and non-contentious matters. This includes providing representation before regulatory authorities and in both criminal and civil litigation. Michael is co-head of Clyde & Co’s MEA Healthcare Group.
Michael regularly advises re/insurers on general liability claims (coverage, monitoring and defence) arising under Commercial General Liability, Employers’ Liability & Workmens’ Compensation, and Public & Product Liability policies across a variety of different sectors and jurisdictions.
Experience
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Healthcare
- Advising medical professionals, hospitals and clinics in the GCC on both contentious medical malpractice claims before the regulatory authorities and in criminal and civil litigation, and varied non-contentious matters.
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Property & business interruption
- Advising re/insurers on policy coverage for property and business interruption losses following a high-profile hotel fire in Dubai with a claim value of USD 332 million.
- Advising various re/insurers on policy coverage for business interruption losses arising from Covid-19 in the UAE and the wider GCC.
- Advising re/insurers on policy coverage for large-scale property and business interruption losses following an explosion at a warehouse in the UAE.
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Liability defence
- Successfully defending liability re/insurers and their policyholder in respect of a claim arising from property damage to over 3,000 motor vehicles in the UAE.
- Successfully defending liability re/insurers and a mall operator in respect of multiple criminal and civil claims following a mall fire in the UAE.
- Advising liability re/insurers on the defence of a claim for USD 8 million arising from damage to a vessel in Tunisia.
- Advising liability insurers and an international hotelier on civil and criminal litigation defence and jurisdiction issues in connection with a serious sexual assault at one of their premises.
- Advising insurers and an automotive manufacturer in relation to a large number of product liability and recall claims.
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Subrogated recoveries
- Advising re/insurers on a USD 332 million subrogated recovery following a significant cladding fire at a high-profile hotel in Dubai.
- Advising re/insurers on a USD 80 million subrogated recovery in respect of damage to a reformer at a methanol plant in Oman.
- Advising re/insurers in relation to a significant subrogated recovery arising out of the explosion of generator transformers at a power plant in Saudi Arabia.