Michael Coffey

Biography

Michael Coffey is partner of the Connecticut office. He has handled many of the largest insurance-related claims and litigated matters in New York State over the past 25 years.  The world’s largest companies routinely parachute in Mr. Coffey to handle complex high exposure liability and damages matters.  He is also an ABOTA attorney who has personally tried over 125 jury trials for companies and syndicates in state and federal courts throughout the U.S. in cases involving all types of high-stakes insurance-related and commercial matters.  He has also arbitrated and mediated over 300 matters to a successful conclusion.  Mr. Coffey and his bespoke litigation team deliver legal services that ensure excellent results in mitigating exposure and containing litigation costs, either through ADR or trial by jury, if necessary.

Mr. Coffey’s legal practice includes direct litigation, excess litigation, AFA’s, reinsurance litigation, primary and excess monitoring, coverage, and oversight of national programs for companies, insurance companies, syndicates, captive insurance companies, and MGA’s located in the U.S, London, Dublin, and Bermuda. He has extensive experience defending insurance clients in all lines of business, including casualty, E&O, D&O, and property matters.  His specialties include construction litigation, construction defect, miscellaneous professional liability, contingency, legal malpractice, cyber, public entity, allied health, habitation, dram shop and premises liability, transportation, A&E, EPL, London Market, energy, excess liability, and casualty.  Mr. Coffey also assists the London market insuring and reinsuring syndicates and companies with coverholder, third-party-administrator and cedant audits, ranging from single, high exposure claim audits to portfolio audits, investigative audits, comfort audits, pre-commutation audits and more.  He also regularly handles a range of marine/admiralty matters internationally.

Education: St. John’s University School of Law (J.D., 1994)Connecticut College (B.A., 1989)

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: NY, CT