Practice Areas:

Appellate
Commercial Litigation
Construction Litigation
Environmental and Toxic Tort
Insurance and Reinsurance
Pharmaceutical
Product Liability

Kevin Coughlin is a founding member and managing partner of Coughlin Duffy LLP. His practice extends to numerous areas, including insurance and reinsurance, toxic torts, products liability, professional liability, directors and officers, financial institutions, construction, antitrust, commercial and corporate litigation, environmental and bad-faith litigation. He regularly counsels insurers and reinsurers worldwide on a variety of issues relating to commercial insurance and reinsurance. Mr. Coughlin also defends insurance companies and reinsurance companies in coverage litigation and arbitrations in numerous jurisdictions throughout the United States and Europe. In the commercial area he represents multi-national clients in disputes arising out of commercial transactions, including non-U.S. transactions with implications within the United States and U.S. transactions outside the United States. He also counsels non-U.S. companies doing business in the U.S.  Mr. Coughlin was a founding member of the insurance services group at McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney LLP. He was a partner at that firm from 1987 until he resigned in March 2004 to start the firm of Coughlin Duffy LLP.

Recent significant cases include acting as counsel to a major insurer in connection with its insurance issues arising out of the World Trade Center terrorist attack, as well as acting as lead counsel to various syndicates at Lloyds in successfully defending a major reinsurance claim arising out of the U.S. Workers Compensation Market. Mr. Coughlin also acts as lead counsel for 50 foreign insurers in a complex multi-national insurance and antitrust dispute arising out of U.S. asbestos litigation. He is also involved in numerous insurance and reinsurance disputes in the U.S. and Europe arising from litigation against financial institutions and accounting firms.  Mr. Coughlin earned his BA from Villanova University in 1977 and his JD from Seton Hall University in 1980.

Education:
Seton Hall University (J.D. 1980)
Villanova University (B.A. 1977)

Professional Admissions:
State of New Jersey (1981)
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1981)
State of New York (1981)
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1981)
United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (2003)
United States District Court of Appeals – Second Circuit

Professional Activities:
Member, American Bar Association
Member, New Jersey State Bar Association
Member, Morris County Bar Association

Honors:

Listed in Super Lawyers, Insurance Coverage (2006, 2007)

International Who's Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers (2007)
Madison Who's Who of Professionals (2006-2007)
Profiled in Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers (2006)
Secretary, District X Ethics Committee for Morris and Sussex Counties (1987 to 1990)

Contact:
P.O. Box 1917
350 Mount Kemble Avenue
Morristown, NJ 07962-1917

Direct Dial: (973) 631-6001
Facsimile: (973) 267-6442

E-mail:
kcoughlin@coughlinduffy.com