Kristin V Gallagher

• New Jersey
• New York
• US District Court, District of Colorado
• US District Court, Northern District of Florida
• US District Court, New Jersey
• US District Court, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of New York
• US Court of Appeals, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits
• New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department

• Ranked lawyer and notable practitioner for 'Insurance (New Jersey)'
  Chambers USA 2024
• Ranked lawyer and notable practitioner for 'Insurance (New Jersey)'
  “Kristin Gallagher acts on a wide range of insurance disputes, including covering disputes involving property damage, business interruptions, product liability, professional risk and catastrophic events.”
  "Kristin is very responsive."
  Chambers USA 2023
• Ranked lawyer and notable practitioner for 'Insurance (New Jersey)'
  "Kristin's stellar reputation and tactical awareness make her one of the best attorneys in the insurance coverage Bar."
  "She is an excellent coverage lawyer and a good writer."
  Chambers USA 2022
• Ranked lawyer and notable practitioner for 'Insurance (New Jersey)'
  "Kristin Gallagher acts on a wide range of insurance disputes, including covering disputes involving property damage, business interruptions, product liability, professional risk and catastrophic events."
  "Kristin is everything I need in a lawyer - responsive, knowledgeable, and very strategic."
  Chambers USA 2021
• Ranked lawyer and notable practitioner for 'Insurance (New Jersey)'
  "Kristin Gallagher handles coverage disputes relating to product liability, professional risk and catastrophic events. "She is smart, knowledgeable and responsive to our needs," reports a client, adding: "She understands our business, is innovative in her thinking and conscious of our focus on cost reductions."
  Chambers USA 2020
• Recognized by New Jersey Super Lawyers (2017-2018)

• Lead counsel in a coverage dispute arising out of an underlying multi-district Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) litigation in which the alleged violations potentially total $2.8 billion in fines under the Act.
• Successfully represented an insurer in a dispute with its policyholder, a national healthcare company, regarding damages resulting from a data breach.
• Successfully defended a specialty lines insurer in a dispute with professional NASCAR racer Tony Stewart regarding coverage under a policy for an underlying wrongful death action stemming from Stewart’s participation in a sprint car race.
• Successfully represented an excess insurer with respect to a dispute under a product recall policy with respect to $15 million incurred in connection with a highly publicized recall of uninspected beef.
• Lead coverage counsel for a global insurer in the World Trade Center litigation.

Presentations

• “The clock is ticking – How to defuse time limit demands,” In-House Client Training (September 2023)
• “Dangerous States for Bad Faith,” In-House Client Training (August 2023)
• “The State of Bad Faith,” In-House Client Training (May 2023)
• “2023 Insurance Coverage Litigation,” presented for the American Bar Association (March 2023)
• “Making, analyzing and responding to policy limits settlement demands in an era of social inflation and nuclear verdicts,” presented for the ICLC Litigation Conference (February 2023)
• “The State of Bad Faith,” In-House Client Training (September 2022)
• “COVID 19 business interruption claims and litigation landscape US,” In-House Client Training (January 2022)
• “Hot Topics in Insurance Coverage” In-House Client Training (April 2020)
• “Preventing, mitigating and resolving the business Impacts of coronavirus/COVID 19 with ADR” In-House Client Training (April 2020)
• “COVID-19 Issues” In-House Client Training (April 2020)
• “Tender Boot Camp Risk Transfer Issues” In-House Client Training (December 2019)
• “Florida Bad Faith Law: The Insurer's Duty to Settle and Responding to Time Limit Demands” In-House Client Training (December 2019)
• “Providing Effective Deposition Testimony” In-House Client Training (October 2019)
• “Insurance Coverage Hot Topics” In-House Client Training (October 2019)
• “Ethical Challenges with the Tri-Partite Relationship” presented for Perrin Conferences (October 2019)

Publications

• Co-author, “New Jersey Supreme Court rules that COVID-19 business interruption claims may be dismissed at the pleadings stage,” published for Kennedys (January 2024)
• Co-author, “Key amendments to New York's Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Action,” published for Kennedys (February 2022)
• Co-author, “Understanding New York's Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act,” (January 2022)
• Co-author, “The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals COVID-19 decisions,” published for Kennedys (October 2021)
• Co-author, “COVID-19: commercial property litigation trends in the United States,” (February 2021)
• Co-author, "Large scale lawsuits present new challenge for insurers," published for Insurance Day (October 2019)
• Co-author, “Notice, prejudice, and first-party property damage claims,” published for Kennedys (April 2019)
• Co-author, “Preemptive Recalls May Not Be Covered By Product Recall Insurance,” published for Kennedys (January 2019)
• Co-author, “Handling the Florida Claimant’s Demand for a Financial Affidavit,” published for Kennedys (January 2019)

• Axis Ins. Co. v. Stewart, 198 F. Supp. 3d 4 (N.D.N.Y. July 2016)
• Bingham v. 347 11th St., LLC, 140 A.D. 686 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. App. Div. 2nd Dep’t June 1, 2016)
• Carolina Cas. Ins. Co. v. Red Coats Inc., 624 Fed. Appx. 992 (11th Cir. August 17, 2015)
• Goldstone Amber St. Realty Corp. v. New York Mar. & Gen. Ins. Co., 127 A.D. 3d 691, (N.Y. Sup. Ct. App. Div. 2nd Dep’t April 2015)
• Jene’ Barranco, et al. v. Hog Wild Trucking, Inc. et al, Cause Number 2011-0209 (Miss. Cir. Ct. October 18, 2013)