Scott Murphy Email & Phone Number

Managing/Supervising Litigation Counsel in Casualty, CD, FL, EPL, Insurance (primary/excess or reinsurance), Maritime, Premises Liability, Products Liability, Professional Liability, Premises or Business Security Operations and Transportation. Experience includes managing claims units or legal trial counsel units/law firms (ranging from 10 to 35 attorneys plus support staff) as well as being a local trial counsel, regional or national trial counsel in CD, EPL and FCA, FL, GL, PL and Commercial Business Transactions lines of business. Have managed lawyers in both East and West Coast law firms as well as national/international insurance/claims departments. Have also worked as a TPA or carrier claims professional (Adjuster, Claims Director/AVP, Insurance and Reinsurance), In-House trial defense Counsel, Outside Defense or General Counsel role and Coverage or Monitoring Counsel - in multiple states including California, Florida, New Jersey, New York and many other pro hac admissions to state and federal courts. Additional experience supervising and directing complex corporate risk management and litigation management units including in-house and outside attorneys and captives as well as dealing with agents/brokers involved and complex insurance program development ranging from municipal and non profit entities, to large and small corporations. Experience includes directing complex primary, excess, reinsurance and program driven retention and self-insurance programs. Area of Practice and Lines of Business handled over at least three decades can be found on the website www.garritygraham.com/JamesScottMurphy. But for ease of reference it includes: Burns and Other Significant Injury Cases, Detonation/Explosion and Fire cases, Construction Defect and Injury cases, Cyber-Media-Privacy Liability, Employment Practices and False Claims Act Defense Cases, Health Care Liability, Financial Products/Lines Litigation, Products Liability Defense, Professional Liability Defense including E&O/D&O/LPL, Recreational Vehicle or Vessel defense cases, industrial equipment defect or injury cases, sports activity litigation, Trucking and Cargo defense and coverage cases, Malpractice and Physician Contracts, General Liability Defense, Insurance Agents and Broker Liability, Security - Hotel/Motel - Shopping Center defense cases, Maritime accidents and Allied Health Care defense. Member of FDCC, IADC, IAPP, DRI, ACA, TLA, PLUS, PLDF, CLM, NRA, NJDAwww.garritygraham.com

Listed skills include Professional Liability, Professional Malpractice, Product Liability, Civil Litigation, and 14 others.