Barbara Almeida

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Barbara Almeida has 20 years of experience in complex insurance coverage advice, litigation and arbitration on behalf of domestic and international property and casualty insurance companies.

Her practice focuses on a wide range of high-severity coverage disputes, including matters related to products liability, pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter drugs and medical devices, agricultural and industrial contamination, consumer protection claims, long-tail torts such as asbestos and environmental coverage litigation, concussions arising from collegiate and professional sports, and other third-party liability coverage matters.

Barbara has been counsel in numerous hotly-contested domestic coverage cases throughout the country, including, most recently, in a large asbestos coverage litigation in Delaware, an adversary bankruptcy proceeding in Southern District of New York, as well as various concussion liability coverage litigations in New York and other jurisdictions. She has also arbitrated multiple high-value coverage disputes in London for international insurers.

Barbara is a founding partner of the New Jersey office, which opened in 2010, and she is the office's Executive Partner.

She is fluent in Portuguese.