Colleen Murphy Email & Phone Number

I am the leader of the firm’s insurance agents and brokers practice within its Professional Liability Practice Group. Over the past 25 years, I have represented hundreds of agents and brokers in complex matters and bring a deep understanding of their business concerns, the regulatory climate surrounding the industry, their errors and omissions (E&O) risks, and the contractual agreements and relationships with their carriers and insureds. I have also performed loss control audits, rewritten agency contracts, and gone to bat for agents' and brokers’ insureds in contentious coverage disputes. My clients rely on me to provide strategic counsel on risk management, E&O loss control, regulatory matters, and other big-picture issues affecting their businesses.I have successfully defended hundreds of insurance agents and brokers — including Top 10 insurance agencies and brokerages and agencies associated with banks — in E&O litigation across New York State. I am routinely appointed E&O counsel of choice by E&O carriers at the request of major insurance agencies. As a nationally recognized authority on the defense of insurance agents and brokers, I have been called upon to oversee their defense in numerous states, including New York, Penn. N.J. Conn., South Carolina, Tennessee and Maine. A significant part of my practice includes representing insurance agents and brokers in insurance regulatory and licensing matters as well as consumer complaints in state insurance departments.I also successfully defend third-party administrators, independent adjusters, engineers, financial professionals, and miscellaneous professionals in E&O claims. I also have a significant amount of experience representing broker-dealers and registered representatives in FINRA arbitrations involving securities-related claims, including those alleging unsuitable investment recommendations, improper sales practices, negligent supervision, churning, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract.

Listed skills include Professional Liability, Insurance, Liability, Product Liability, and 17 others.