R. Dixon Grier, CPA

Managing Partner, West Coast Region

Practice Areas:

Builders Risk
Business Interruption
Catastrophe Losses
Employee Dishonesty
Expert Testimony
Product Contamination
Property Damage
Stock
Subrogation

Industry Experience:

Agriculture
Chemicals
Financial Institutions
Food Packaging Plants
Foundries
Government Contractors
Grain Elevators
High Tech
Hospitals
Hotels, Restaurants, Shopping
Shopping Centers
Lumber
Medical Centers
Mining
Pharmaceuticals
Power Generation Facilities
Public Utilities
Oil & Gas Pipelines
Oil Refineries
Retail and Wholesale
Semi-Conductors
Textiles
Transportation

Work Experience

Dixon started his career in loss accounting as a staff accountant with Johnson, Atwater & Company in 1977. Matson, Driscoll & Damico was formed in 1979, and Dixon was one of their first employees. In 1985, Dixon was given the opportunity to start MD&D’s first West Coast office in Los Angeles. Dixon opened the firm’s San Francisco office in 1991 and their Seattle office in 1995. He is the West Coast Region’s Managing Partner. In addition, Dixon is a member of the firm’s global executive management committee, which assists in managing the firm’s thirty worldwide offices.

Dixon’s work experience includes supervision of reviews for claims on large business interruption, stock, property damage, contaminated product, jewelers block, builders risk and catastrophe losses. He also provides litigation support on subrogation, fraud, liability, lost earnings, lost wages and arson assignments and expert testimony in district, state and federal courts.

Throughout the years, Dixon has presented various seminars and workshops including business income loss and introduction to business interruption losses. His paper entitled, “Forensic Accountants Make it Add Up” was published in The National Law Journal in December 2004.