INSURANCE LAW PRACTICE

Since the founding of Connell Foley in 1936, the firm has been widely recognized for our premier expertise in the area of insurance law. Led by a team of experts in this field, our Insurance Law Practice represents clients with exceptional skill and insight.

 

Insurance Coverage Practice Group

For more than six decades, the firm has maintained a sophisticated coverage practice that handles a broad array of complex, specialized, and large exposure matters for a variety of domestic and international clients. 

 

Our unsurpassed expertise covers many different types of insurance coverage areas.  Connell Foley routinely counsels, monitors, and litigates on coverage matters involving products liability, professional liability, construction defects, environmental exposures, asbestos matters, toxic torts, mold litigation, class actions, aviation liability, business interruption, first-party property, health care, life and disability, trademark infringement, and bad faith/extra-contractual claims, among other areas.  Connell Foley has also long been at the forefront in cutting-edge areas of insurance law, such as the recent surge in the need to protect our clients’ insurance rights through the bankruptcy proceedings of major corporations.  In all respects, Connell Foley’s insurance coverage practice group has consistently achieved strong results in state, federal, and alternative dispute resolution settings. 

 

A firm partner, (George J. Kenny) and former partner (Frank Lattal) are co-authors of “New Jersey Insurance Law,” the standard text for New Jersey insurance practitioners.  It contains summaries and comments on all reported New Jersey coverage cases and touches upon numerous topics, including rights and obligations of insurers, duty to defend, general liability policies, homeowner policies, and personal injury protection insurance.

 

Insurance Defense Practice Group

Since its inception, Connell Foley has also provided strong litigation advocacy and defense for major international and national claims, achieving extraordinary results for our clients across the spectrum of insurance defense.  Our skills reach across all levels, including litigation at trial and appellate levels, arbitration, and client counseling and advice. Our vast professional services include commercial property losses, automobile negligence, products liability, construction liability, premises liability, malpractice, railroad liability, subrogation prosecution and defense, environmental litigation, and contractual liability.  We also offer our clients educational seminars on significant legal developments in the area of litigation.

 

Contacts:

          Jonathan P. McHenry

Partners/Counsel:

Richard J. Badolato

Steve Barnett
Richard D. Catenacci
Timothy E. Corriston
Glenn T. Dyer

Kevin R. Gardner
Jodi Anne Hudson

Patrick J. Hughes
Angela A. Iuso
Brendan Judge
George J. Kenny
Samuel D. Lord

Owen C. McCarthy
William T. McGloin
Jonathan P. McHenry
Jeffrey W. Moryan
Kathleen S. Murphy
Gregory E. Peterson

Karen Painter Randall

Robert E. Ryan
Ernest W. Schoellkopff
Brian G. Steller

 

 

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