Nicole Corona | McCarter & English, LLP

For over 20 years, Nicole has represented policyholders in a broad range of litigation throughout all phases of disputes, including pre-litigation negotiations, mediation and settlement negotiations, trial, and appeals.

Nicole Corona focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation with a primary emphasis on insurance coverage litigation and counseling, with experience in class action and products liability litigation. She represents policyholder clients, including Fortune 500 companies, seeking coverage for liabilities related to asbestos, environmental damage, bodily injury, product liability, property damage, and mass tort. Nicole possesses extensive experience representing and advising clients on issues arising from general liability, professional liability, directors and officers, errors and omissions, and workers compensation insurance policies.

Nicole’s extensive litigation experience extends throughout all phases of a dispute, including pre-litigation negotiations, mediation and settlement negotiations, trial, and appeal. Nicole routinely performs insurance policy analysis for clients ranging from homeowners to multi-national corporations.

Nicole participated on the trial team that secured coverage for Wakefern Food Corp. and its members for their Superstorm Sandy losses.

Nicole’s practice extends to pro bono work, including counseling at the firm’s expungement clinics and representing clients in cases involving insurance coverage, among other matters.

Secured a win for Ethos Veterinary Health, LLC before the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau’s (“WCRIBMA”) Appeals Committee. Ethos challenged the propriety of its insurer calculating workers’ compensation premiums based, in part, on Ethos’ one time change-in-control payments made to its employees. The WCRIBMA confirmed the insurer should not have included these payments in its premium calculations, and the insurer appealed. After argument and limited discovery, the Appeals Committee affirmed the WCRIBMA’s ruling.

Obtained favorable ruling from the Massachusetts Worker’s Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau in a premium audit dispute with Ethos’s workers’ compensation insurer, substantially reducing the amount of workers’ compensation premium due.

Represented Sealed Air Corp. in affirming trial court’s grant of summary judgment on the inapplicability of the pollution exclusion, creating new insurance coverage law in New Jersey (Sealed Air Corp. v. Royal Indemnity Co., 404 N.J. Super. 363 (App. Div. 2008)).

Represented plaintiff/policyholder G-I Holdings, Inc. in the court successfully granting its motion against defendant Hartford Fire Insurance Company requiring the insurer to advance plaintiffs’ costs of defending an underlying fraudulent conveyance claim (G-I Holdings, Inc. v. Reliance Insurance Co., 2006 WL 776809 (D.N.J. Mar. 24, 2006)).

Assisted in the recovery of over $95 million dollars in insurance coverage for a pharmaceuticals company.