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Neil V. Mody focuses his practice on
complex insurance coverage
and contractual litigation and
counseling. In particular, he
represents both domestic and
internationally-based insurers in
connection with a wide variety of
insurance coverage matters dealing
with property claims, general liability coverage,
excess liability claims, long-tail
claims (such as asbestos,
environmental and other toxic
torts), construction defect, bad
faith/extra-contractual claims,
reinsurance matters, product
liability and catastrophic loss.
Before
joining Connell Foley, Mr. Mody
served as Judicial Law Clerk to the
Honorable Lawrence Weiss, J.S.C. in
the Superior Court of New Jersey
and as Judicial Intern to the
Honorable Katharine S. Hayden, U.S.D.J. in the U.S. District Court
for the District of New Jersey.
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Admitted to Practice:
State of New Jersey
State of New York
United States District Court for the
District
of New Jersey
United States District Court for the Eastern
District of New York
United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York
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Education:
Seton Hall University
(B.S., Psychology, cum laude,
1998)
Seton Hall University School of Law (J.D.,
2001)
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Affiliations:
New Jersey State Bar Association
New York State Bar Association Commercial
Litigation Section
American Bar Association Insurance Coverage
Committee
Defense Research Institute Ethics and
Professionalism Committee
Liability Insurance Research Bureau
Property Liability Research Bureau
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Representative Experience |
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Represented Fortune
100 insurer before New Jersey Supreme Court
following successful rulings at Superior
Court and Appellate Division levels on duty to defend
in complex, multi-million dollar
environmental insurance coverage action; |
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Represented domestic
insurer before New York Appellate Division
after achieving summary judgment dismissal
of environmental coverage claims based on
pollution exclusion and other policy
provisions; |
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Obtained summary judgment dismissal
of internationally-based insurer
in multi-million dollar construction
defect coverage action based on principles of
trigger, allocation, exhaustion, business
risks exclusions and other insurance
policy
defenses; |
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Achieved dispositive judgment against
plaintiff's insurance coverage complaint arising from
toxic exposure bodily injury claims before New York Supreme
Court. |
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Professional Activities |
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Speaker,
LRB/LIRB 2010 Regional Adjusters Conferences
"Deconstructing
Chinese Drywall: Analysis of First- and
Third-Party Chinese Drywall Coverage Claims"
Atlanta, Georgia (June 2010) |
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Publications |
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Co-Author, “Pulling
the Right Trigger: Identifying the
Appropriate Insurance Policy Trigger
Approach at the Inception of a
Construction Defect Coverage Case”
USLAW magazine (Spring/Summer
2010) |
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