Practice Areas:

Commercial Litigation
Environmental and Toxic Tort
Insurance and Reinsurance

Karen H. Moriarty is an Associate of the firm where she concentrates in the areas of insurance coverage, reinsurance, environmental, toxic tort and commercial litigation.  Ms. Moriarty has experience in representing insurers and reinsurers in both litigated and arbitrated matters.   Ms. Moriarty has significant experience representing insurers in environmental and toxic tort coverage disputes.  For several years, Ms. Moriarty was associated with the firm of Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker where she specialized in products liability, professional liability and medical malpractice litigation.  Thereafter, she served as in-house claims counsel with a New Jersey based property and casualty insurer concentrating in the areas of environmental, toxic tort, products liability and bad faith litigation.  She joined Coughlin Duffy LLP at its inception in March 2004.

Ms. Moriarty is a member of the firm’s Women’s Initiative Group Steering Committee and has participated in the firm’s partnership with the New Jersey Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education.

Ms. Moriaty was a member of a panel presentation, “I Got ‘YouTube Covered’ Insurance Coverage for IP and Cyber-Loss” at the American Bar Association Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Mid-Year Meeting, February 2008.  She also served as co-author of  “Small Business Insurance Needs,” Garden State Woman (Financial Guide 2006)

Education:
Seton Hall School of Law (J.D. 1986)
Seton Hall University (B.S. 1983)

Professional Admissions:
State of New Jersey (1986)

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1986)
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1986)

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2005)

Memberships and Professional Activities:
Member, New Jersey State Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Computer Technology Subcommittee of the Insurance Coverage Litigation

Committee of the Section of Litigation

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

Direct Dial: (973) 631-6027
Facsimile: (973) 267-6442

E-mail:
kmoriarty@coughlinduffy.com