Practice Areas:
Commercial Litigation
Insurance and Reinsurance

Suzanne Cocco Midlige is a Founding Partner of Coughlin Duffy LLP where she serves as the Practice Group Leader for the Insurance and Reinsurance Services Group. Ms. Midlige’s practice focuses on the representation of domestic and international insurers and reinsurers in litigated and non-litigated matters. Ms. Midlige has extensive experience representing multi-national companies involved in transnational disputes. She also concentrates on the representation of companies embroiled in commercial and antitrust disputes. In 1992, Ms. Midlige joined the law firm of McElroy Deutsch & Mulvaney LLP where she served as a Practice Group Administrator for the Insurance Services Group. She was made a partner in 1999 and remained at that firm from 1992 until she resigned in March 2004 to start the firm of Coughlin Duffy LLP. Ms. Midlige served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable William G. Bassler, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey for the 1991-1992 Term.

Ms. Midlige has extensive experience representing the interests of insurers and reinsurers in disputes relating to financial institutions, asbestos, pollution, and health hazards. Ms. Midlige recently acted for multinational reinsurers in a series of corporate malfeasance claims and failed tax strategy claims and is currently acting as coordinating counsel for a multinational reinsurer in relation to subprime and credit exposures. Ms. Midlige has significant experience with asbestos coverage disputes, including the area of asbestos bankruptcy litigation. Significant cases also include acting as counsel to fifty multinational insurers in a complex insurance and antitrust dispute involving US and Australian asbestos claims. Ms. Midlige works closely with insurers in relation to the development and implementation of models to allocate losses across complex insurance programs, and in evaluating future loss projections and developing burn rate analyses.

Ms. Midlige was named as a leading attorney by the Guide to the Worlds Leading Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers in 2004, 2006 and 2008 and was named a New Jersey Super Lawyer in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

In 2010, Ms. Midlige was selected for inclusion in the Guide to the Worlds Leading Women in Business Law.

In 2008, Ms. Midlige was named a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America. Ms. Midlige is also a member of the Association for Professional Insurance Women, the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), ARIAS, and the New Jersey, International and American Bar Associations where she was recently appointed as Co-Chair of the London Subcommittee of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation.

Ms Midlige was selected as a Leader Among Women and Minorities in New Jersey by the New Jersey Law Journal. She is a founding member of the firm's Women's Initiative Group and is leading her firm's partnership with the New Jersey Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education.

Education:

Seton Hall University (JD, 1991)

Muhlenberg College (BA, 1984)

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10406020903543269

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

Direct Dial: (973) 631-6006
Facsimile: (973) 267-6442

E-mail:
smidlige@coughlinduffy.com