Glenn T. Dyer

Partner, Roseland Office

85 Livingston Avenue

Roseland, New Jersey 07068

Phone:  (973) 535-0500

gdyer@connellfoley.com

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Representative Experience


Mr. Dyer represents insurance companies and their insureds in tort-based liability claims and contractual claims venued in the Superior Court of New Jersey and in various arbitration forums. He has tried over fifty cases before juries, has had numerous bench trials and has arbitrated hundreds of personal injury protection benefit, uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage cases. He has been elected by his peers across the state as a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).

 

Mr. Dyer also routinely handles insurance coverage and insurer bad faith claims, specializing in fraud, misrepresentation and non-cooperation-related disclaimer, denial, rescission and restitution-based affirmative claims and defenses.

 

Mr. Dyer has also dedicated himself to the betterment of the civil justice system (including the preservation and advancement of the jury system) and to the needs of the New Jersey State Bar. He is the former Chairman of the Essex County Bar Association Product Liability Section (1999 to 2001) and is currently a Trustee of the Middlesex County Trial Lawyer’s Association (2007 to present). He is also a certified civil case arbitrator of contract and tort cases in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Middlesex County and routinely acts as an arbitrator of private, contractual uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage cases.

 

Mr. Dyer began his career as a law clerk to the Honorable Karen D. Russell, J.S.C. (retired), before joining Connell Foley in 1990.

 

 

Practice Areas:

Insurance Law

Mass Tort and Toxic Litigation

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Professional Liability

Admitted to Practice:

State of New Jersey

United States District Court, District of New Jersey

 

Education:

West Virginia Wesleyan College (B.S., Marketing, cum laude, 1986)

• University of Notre Dame (J.D., cum laude, 1989)

 

 

Affiliations:

New Jersey State Bar Association

Middlesex County Trial Lawyers Association

American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)


Published Cases

  • Pinto v. NJ Manufacturers Ins. Co., 183 N.J. 405 (2005);

  • Thompson v. Potenza, 364 N.J. Super 462 (App. Div. 2003);

  • Green v. NJ Manufacturers Ins. Co. 160 N.J. 480 (1999);

  • Derfuss v. NJ Manufacturers Ins. Co., 285 N.J. Super 125 (App Div. 1995).

     

Representative Experience

  • Successfully represented individual and corporate defendants in numerous automobile-related serious injury and wrongful death/survival actions.

  • Successfully represented insurers, from trial through appeal, in coverage actions related to policy provisions/statutory interpretation.