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Harriet Bateman

Harriet joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ New York office as a Partner in 2024. She was previously a Director in forensic accounting at a global firm, where she specialized in cyber insurance.

Harriet has over a decade of experience in forensic accounting; her practice focuses on quantifying economic damages in matters related to cyber risk, supporting clients throughout the claims process, and during any subsequent litigation. Harriet also has extensive experience in property, advanced loss of profits/delay in start-up, professional liability, contingent BI & extra expenses, commercial disputes, and fidelity claims.

Harriet’s experience spans a wide variety of industries, including professional services, manufacturing, retail, technology, healthcare, government, hospitality, and tourism. Fluent in Spanish, she supports clients in both the USA and LatAM.

Harriet has presented numerous seminars, including cyber insurance training and workshops for claims professionals, underwriters, and actuaries. She has also presented at market conferences and has been a contributor to Business Insurance magazine.

Harriet graduated from the University of Birmingham (UK) and holds her ACA designation.

Laura Lagana

Laura joined MDD’s London office in 2024 and is a Manager at the firm.

With over 10 years of experience within the accounting field, her professional practice concentrates primarily on issues related to business interruption, contingent BI & extra expenses, cyber risks, fidelity claims, stock and content losses. She also has catastrophe services experience, having worked on losses arising from COVID-19.

Laura has experience across a broad spectrum of industries including retail, manufacturing, hospitality & tourism, power generation, professional services and IT.

Laura is the Deputy Education Secretary of the London Business Interruption Association (LBIA) and regularly presents the LBIA’s popular online and in-person training session.

She graduated from The University of London in 2003 with a MSc in Computer Science.

Laura is a native German and is fluent in French and Italian.