Practice Areas

Successful Defense Lawyers

Over the past 50 years, the attorneys of O’Connor, McGuinness, Conte, Doyle and Oleson have built a successful defense practice that today is focused on the following areas of practice:

• Personal injury, wrongful death defense: From auto collisions and slip and fall claims to cases involving medical malpractice and environmental toxins.
• Insurance bad faith defense: If you have been charged with unreasonably delaying or denying coverage or with failing to settle a claim within policy limits, we can help.
• Medical malpractice: Medical malpractice claims make health care more expensive for everyone. We work diligently to minimize the consequences of these claims.
• Professional misconduct defense: Representing physicians whose license to practice medicine has been placed in jeopardy by they claims of a patient.
• Premises liability defense: Including slip and falls, inadequate security, and lack of lighting.
• Municipal/school liability defense: Cities and schools are frequent targets of litigation and require an experienced defense counsel.
• Legal malpractice defense: We are proud to defend members of the legal profession who have been accused of wrongdoing.
• Products liability defense: Successfully resolving claims of defectively designed, manufactured or mislabeled products.
• Toxic tort, environmental, lead paint defense: The use of respected experts is crucial to success in environmental claims.
• Policy interpretation & coverage disputes: We counsel insurance clients on how policy language may be interpreted in New York and Connecticut.
• Car & truck accident defense: Vehicle accidents cost the insurance industry more than $111 billion in losses in 2006.
• Construction accident defense: These cases often involve cross claims among multiple defendants in addition to the plaintiff.
• Civil rights, employment discrimination defense: Deposing the plaintiff’s co-workers and making good use of new e-discovery statutes have helped us succeed in many of these cases.
• Our appellate practice: When mistakes were made at trial, we know how to analyze the issues and get results on appeal.
• Excess & surplus: If the plaintiff has more than one insurance policy, we do the legal work necessary to see that the correct insurance policy is covering the claim.

To discuss your case with a member of our defense litigation law firm, please contact O’Connor, McGuinness, Conte, Doyle and Oleson. From offices in White Plains, Manhattan and Poughkeepsie, we successfully defend clients throughout New York and southern Connecticut.