Attorney-Client Privilege in Insurance Disputes: Preserving Confidentiality, Meeting Legal Ethics Standards

Ms. Devlin is an experienced litigator who provides advice to insurers and litigates coverage issues relating to various types of insurance policies, including comprehensive general liability, directors and officers (D&O), errors and omissions (E&O), employment practices liability (EPL), professional liability, commercial property and casualty, and public entity and public officials. She manages coverage cases and represents the interests of insurers in a variety of areas, including environmental contamination, asbestos exposure, toxic tort, construction defect, commercial matters, public entity, public officials, and professional liability. In her experience, Ms. Devlin has successfully addressed coverage issues and disputes through coverage opinions, arbitration, mediation, and declaratory judgment actions.

Ms. Villaverde concentrates her practice in insurance coverage litigation and counseling. For over a decade, she has represented insurance carriers in connection with coverage issues and disputes including general liability, directors’ and officers’, errors and omissions, employment practices, commercial property, environmental and contractual liability. Ms. Villaverde has particular expertise on matters that concern long-tail environmental contamination and construction defect claims. She also aggressively defends lawyers and other professionals in matters involving claims of malpractice.

Mr. Baldwin's practice focuses primarily on defending financial lines of insurance coverage disputes concerning directors and officers (D&O), errors and omissions (E&O), employment practices liability (EPL), commercial general liability (CGL), Fidelity, Surety and Performance and commercial property insurance policies. His practice also includes prosecuting commercial torts on behalf of client businesses, which involves representing businesses, individuals, partners, shareholders, directors and/or officers, public entities and officials in matters including wrongful acts, breaches of contracts, non-compete agreements and fraud. Mr. Baldwin has substantial appellate experience extending to the New Jersey Supreme Court. He also is a pro bono attorney for Kids in Need of Defense (KIND).