Owen C. McCarthy

Partner, Roseland Office

85 Livingston Avenue

Roseland, New Jersey 07068

Phone:  (973) 535-0500

omccarthy@connellfoley.com

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Representative Experience
Professional Activities

Since joining Connell Foley in 2003, Owen McCarthy has represented insurance companies and their clients in tort-based liability claims and contractual claims in the Superior Court of New Jersey and in various arbitration forums.  He has tried over forty cases to verdict and has arbitrated numerous matters relating to the availability of insurance coverage.  In 2008 Mr. McCarthy was designated by The Board of Trial Attorney Certification of the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney.  Mr. McCarthy is also a Certified Mediator designated by the State of New Jersey and routinely acts as a mediator of private, contractual uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage cases. 

Mr. McCarthy served as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Peter F. Boggia, J.S.C. in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen Vicinage.  Mr. McCarthy served as a Councilman and Deputy Mayor for the Borough of Fair Lawn, Bergen County, and as a Commissioner and Treasurer for the Bergen County Housing Authority.  He currently serves as a member of the Manasquan Tourism Commission. 

During law school, Mr. McCarthy was a member of the Seton Hall Legislative Journal.  Mr. McCarthy has served on the Executive Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division and as a member of the New Jersey Defense Association’s Committee on Public Entity Liability.

 

 

 

Practice Areas:

Insurance Law

Product Liability and Tort Law

Business Litigation

Crisis Management and Catastrophic Loss

 

Admitted to Practice:

State of New Jersey

State of New York

United States District Court for the District  of New Jersey

 

Education:

Union College (B.A., Political Science, 1995)

Seton Hall University School of Law (J.D., 1998)
 

Affiliations:

New Jersey State Bar Association

New Jersey Defense Association

Middlesex County Bar Association

Middlesex County Trial Lawyer's Association

Monmouth County Bar Association

 

News:

Hudson and McCarthy Designated Certified Civil Trial Lawyers by the Supreme Court of New Jersey (March 2008)


Representative Experience

Successfully represented individual and corporate defendants in negligence and wrongful death actions;

Successfully represented insurers, from trial through appeal, in coverage actions related to policy provisions/statutory interpretation;

Assisted in the defense of a public utility in consolidated actions arising from a natural gas explosion at a garden apartment complex, including wrongful death, personal injury, property damage and subrogation claims;

Assisted in the defense of a stable owner in barn fire that destroyed twenty-one standardbred racing horses with respect to civil litigation and insurance claims;

Successfully defended national retailer in administrative proceedings concerning alleged violations of building and fire codes;

Successfully defended publisher against competitor’s request for injunctive relief precluding national survey based upon on alleged violations of restrictive covenant;

Representation of subcontractor in defense of environmental claims and delay damages arising from alleged soil contamination in a condominium development;

Representation of general contractor against condominium association’s claims for defective construction in a high rise residential development.

Professional Activities

Member, Justice Morris Pashman Inn of Court