Partner
Practice Areas:
Appellate
Commercial Litigation
Construction Litigation
Environmental and Toxic Tort
Insurance and Reinsurance
Pharmaceutical
Product Liability
Kevin Coughlin is a Founding Partner 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-US transactions with implications within the United States. He also counsels
non-US companies doing business in the US. 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 an insurer in coverage litigation involving pollution
at two mines in Western United States and Canada. Mr. Coughlin acted as lead
counsel for 50 foreign insurers in a complex multi national insurance and antitrust
dispute arising out of US asbestos litigation. He is also involved in numerous
insurance and reinsurance disputes in the US and Europe arising from litigation
against financial institutions and accounting firms. He is actively involved in
counseling insurers and reinsurers on claims arising from the subprime and
liquidity crisis.
Education:
Seton Hall University (J.D. 1980)
Villanova University (B.A. 1977)
Professional Admissions:
State of New York (1981)
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (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 Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1992)
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2003)
Memberships and 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, 2008, 2009, 2010)
International Who's Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers (2007, 2008)
Madison Who's Who of Professionals (2006, 2007, 2008)
Profiled in Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Insurance and
Reinsurance Lawyers (2006, 2008)
Secretary, District X Ethics Committee for Morris and Sussex Counties (1987 to
1990)
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