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Patricia concentrates her primary practice on insurance coverage litigation and consulting, bad faith litigation, environmental & toxic tort litigation, and appellate practice. She has represented a large number of insurance companies and insurance industry professionals in both first and third party insurance coverage and bad faith matters. Patricia has also provided coverage opinions and advice to insurance carriers concerning their coverage obligations under insurance policies they issued and which provided CGL, homeowners', automobile liability, UM/UIM, PIP, workers' compensation, and/or employer's liability coverage. She has also represented oil delivery companies and other third parties in litigation where they have been asked to assume or share in the costs of state-mandated clean up and remediation of environmental contamination. In addition, Patricia has had a great deal of experience in the defense of general liability, professional malpractice, and products liability matters.
In 1990, Patricia graduated magna cum laude from Fairfield University. She then went on to obtain her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law in 1993, after which she was admitted to the Bar in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
After working for another defense litigation law firm in Morristown, New Jersey, Patricia joined Marshall Dennehey in 1997 and practices out of the firm's Roseland, New Jersey, office, where she oversees the bad faith/coverage matters in that office.. She also serves as the Roseland office's contact person for Marshall Dennehey's outside quarterly legal publication, Defense Digest. | 