Practice Areas:
Commercial Litigation
Insurance and Reinsurance
Pharmaceutical
Product Liability

Julia Talarick is Of Counsel to the Firm of Coughlin Duffy LLP. She is engaged primarily in commercial litigation including complex contract and insurance matters. She counsels insurers and has represented insurers in both state and federal courts on a variety of insurance issues and policies. She has defended insureds in a wide variety of cases including general negligence, product liability, construction defect, employment, pharmaceutical malpractice, truck stop liability/cargo loss, mold and underground storage tank claims. This work includes all phases of trial work including trial and appellate practice.

Ms. Talarick has successfully represented parties in obtaining additional insured coverage, including recovery of counsel fees and costs. She is currently representing insurers in connection with coverage disputes arising out of asbestos and welding rod litigation and continues to counsel and represent insurers on additional insured claims, the applicability of general liability coverage in construction defect claims, the applicability of the pollution exclusion in a variety of environmental claims, the reporting requirements under claims-made policies, the negotiation of defense cost sharing agreements, the relationship between global/master policies and domestic policies and commercial and truckers auto claims.

Ms. Talarick graduated from Kean University cum laude in 1985.  She received her JD cum laude in 1997 from Seton Hall University.  Ms. Talarick received an award for Outstanding Student Practitioner Center for Social Justice, Housing Law and was a contracts tutor for first year law students.

Professional Admissions:
State of New Jersey (1997)
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1997)

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2007)

Memberships and Professional Activities:
Graduate, 2000 Arthur T. Vanderbilt Inn of Court
Member, New Jersey State Bar Association, Insurance Law Section

New Jersey Defense Association

Merit Badge Counselor (Citizenship and Law Public Safety) Troop #113 (2008)

Publications/Seminars:

PIP and MEB Exposures Under Commercial Auto Policies (2010)

NY Appellate Division Reverses Trial Court that Insurers Must Provide Operations Coverage for Asbestos Claims Under Primary Policy (2009)

A Divided Supreme Court Holds No UM Coverage for Drive by Shooting (2009)

2007 Case Law Highlights in NJ Auto, General Liability and Workers Compensation Insurance and Tort (2008)

Covered Auto Symbols in Business Truckers Auto Policies (2008)

Co-Author: “Small Business Insurance Needs,” Garden State Women Magazine (Financial Guide 2006)

Awards:

Recipient 2008 Outstanding Volunteer for Volunteer Lawyers for Justice ReLeSe.

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

Direct Dial: (973) 631-6042
Facsimile: (973) 267-6442

E-mail:
jtalarick@coughlinduffy.com