Michael has extensive experience defending insurance clients in all business lines, mitigating client exposure and containing costs either by alternative dispute resolution or trial by jury, when necessary. He focuses on construction litigation, miscellaneous professional liability, contingency, legal malpractice, cyber security, public entity, allied health, habitation, dram shop (liquor liability) and premises liability, transportation, architects and engineers, employment practices liability, energy, excess liability and casualty.

Michael’s legal practice includes direct and excess insurance litigation; reinsurance litigation; primary and excess monitoring, coverage and oversight of national programs for companies; insurers; syndicates; captive insurance companies; and managing general agents in the United States, London, Dublin and Bermuda. He also assists the London market insuring and reinsuring syndicates and companies with cover-holder, third-party administrator and cedant audits, ranging from single, high-exposure claim audits to portfolio, investigative, comfort and pre-commutation audits, and regularly handles a range of marine/admiralty matters internationally.

As national coordinating counsel for Coffey Modica, Michael provides claims and litigation management services for the firm and oversees all aspects of claims management, teams, and processes and protocols that drive the efficient and cost-effective delivery of these services.  He also serves as managing director for the firm’s Connecticut office.

As a thought leader in the insurance industry, Michael is frequently asked by insurance companies, corporations and trade associations to lecture and provide training on best practices for claims handling, jury trends, trial advocacy, and New York Labor Law matters.

He has been published in numerous professional publications and is often consulted and quoted by the media as an expert in construction, trial advocacy, insurance and claims.