A midsize firm with a heavily intensive litigation focus that comprises 90 percent of its practice, Coughlin Duffy carries on a special concentration in insurance and reinsurance matters. In fact, 32 of its 54 litigators devote at least part of their practice to representing carriers in defense and indemnity matters and coverage disputes. Equally notable is that the top litigators in the Insurance and Reinsurance Services Group also are versatile and active in litigation areas in which coverage disputes arise.
The firm was founded as a mass departure of 32 lawyers from McElroy Deutsch & Mulvaney in 2004, led by partners Timothy Duffy and Kevin Coughlin. It initially had two principle departments: one, headed by Duffy, for complex commercial litigation, including product liability and labor and employment, particularly for pharmaceutical and chemical companies; the other, headed by Coughlin, for carrier-side insurance services with an emphasis on coverage issues. Among the carrier clients that came in tow was Zurich-American Insurance Group.
