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Colleen M. Murphy

Colleen M. Murphy, a partner of the firm, chairs Goldberg Segalla's Insurance Agents and Brokers Errors and Omissions practice sub-group within the firm's Professional Liability Practice Group.  Since 1992, she has nearly exclusively confined her practice to the defense of insurance agencies and brokerages in errors and omissions claims and lawsuits as well as in consumer complaints and hearings before the New York State Insurance Department.  Ms. Murphy has successfully defended hundreds of errors and omissions claims on behalf of insurance agents and brokers across New York State as well as in Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico. 

Over the years, Ms. Murphy has delivered numerous errors and omissions loss control CE seminars to insurance agents and brokers across New York State and in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut.  She is the editor of Goldberg Segalla's monthly publication, The Insurance Agents' and Brokers' E&O Report.  As a partner in the former E&O law firm of Lustig & Brown, LLP she authored Errors and Omissions loss control reports as well as contributed chapters to an errors and omissions loss control primer.  Ms. Murphy works with major insurance agents and brokers associations to help meet the diverse needs of their members including helping draft written loss control procedures and forms. 

Ms. Murphy also represents broker-dealers and registered representatives in the defense of securities-related claims, including those alleging unsuitable investment recommendations, improper sales practices, negligent supervision, churning, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract.  She also handles complex product liability and life science matters.

Direct Dial
716.844.3412
Fax
716.566.5401
E-mail
cmurphy@goldbergsegalla.com
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Practice Areas
  • Insurance Agent & Broker Errors and Omissions
  • Complex Insurance Coverage and Extra-Contractual Litigation
  • Complex Products Liability and Life Sciences 
Education
  • State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A., 1987
  • Albany Law School of Union University, J.D., 1990
Admitted to Practice
  • New York - All Courts
  • United States District Court, Northern District of New York
  • United States District Court, Southern District of New York
  • United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • United States District Court, Western District of New York
Civic Activities
  • Western New York Autism Society, Conference planner and co-chair

Publications/Speaking

  • Co-Author, How Insurance Agencies and Brokerages Can Benefit From the Upside of Social Networking While Minimizing the Downside of a Possible E&O Risk, January, 2010
  • Author, Photo Inspections - A Continuing Source of Potential E&O Liability
  • Co-Author, Insurer vs. Insurance Agency E&O Lawsuits: When Your Company Is Not on Your Side

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