Suzanne C. Midlige
Suzanne Cocco Midlige is the Managing Partner and a founding member of Coughlin Duffy LLP. She is also a member of the Firm's Insurance and Reinsurance Services group.
Prior to election to managing partner, Suzanne served as the practice group leader for the Insurance and Reinsurance Services Group from 2004 to 2012. Suzanne's practice focuses on the representation of domestic and international insurers and reinsurers in litigated and non-litigated matters. She has extensive experience representing multi-national companies involved in transnational disputes. Suzanne has years of experience representing the interests of insurers and reinsurers in disputes relating to financial institutions, director and officer disputes, asbestos, pollution, health hazards, and the recent opioid litigation. Suzanne has acted for multinational reinsurers in a series of corporate malfeasance claims and failed tax strategy claims, as well as coordinating counsel for a multinational reinsurer in relation to subprime and credit exposures. She has significant experience with asbestos coverage disputes, including the area of asbestos bankruptcy litigation. Significant cases include acting as counsel to 50 multinational insurers in a complexinsurance and antitrust dispute involving US and Australian asbestos claims, as well as counsel to European insurers in asbestos coverage litigation filed in the US and London. Suzanne works closely with insurers in relation to the development and implementation of models to allocate losses across complex insurance programmes, and in evaluating future loss projections and developing burn rate analyses.
Suzanne served as a judicial clerk to Hon. William G Bassler, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Regular representation of multi-national insurers in asbestos coverage disputes, including the area of asbestos bankruptcy litigation.
- Lead counsel for insurers in multiple insurance coverage disputes relating to contamination of Lower Passaic River.
- Lead counsel for insurers in multi-party coverage dispute involving herbicide.
- Representation of insurers and reinsurers in disputes relating to financial institutions and director & officer disputes.
- Lead counsel for insurer in claim against Directors & Officers of failed hospital.
- Acted for multinational reinsurers in a series of corporate malfeasance claims and failed tax strategy claims.
- Served as coordinating counsel for a multinational reinsurer in relation to subprime and credit exposures.
- Counsel to fifty multinational insurers in a complex insurance and antitrust dispute involving US and Australian asbestos claims.Monitoring counsel for insurers in relation to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) litigation.
- Monitoring counsel for insurers in relation to organic roofing shingle class action litigation in the United States and Canada.
- Counsel to insurer in international claim against Director & Officers of international bio-pharmaceutical company.
- Work closely with insurers and reinsurers in relation to the development and implementation of models to allocate losses across complex insurance programs, and in evaluating future loss projections and developing burn rate analyses.
- Representation of companies embroiled in commercial and antitrust disputes.
Morristown, New Jersey 07962
