Brian D. Barr

Brian focuses on insurance defense litigation, drawing on extensive experience across personal injury defense, insurance coverage disputes, environmental and toxic tort claims, construction litigation, and professional malpractice.

A recognized authority in his field, Brian is frequently invited to speak nationwide on insurance defense and related legal issues, sharing insights from his broad and successful litigation experience.

Practice Highlights:

Brian has tried multiple cases involving claims for traumatic brain injuries, construction defect litigation, insurer bad faith and consumer fraud.

Brian has successfully defended claims against construction companies/general contractors for defects and consumer fraud establishing favorable law in the Appellate Division for these claims.

Brian also prepared a joint Appellate Brief and successfully argued issues in chemical exposure cases helping establish important warning/labeling law for hazardous materials and federal preemption.

Case Highlights

Successfully obtained a defense verdict for a commercial builder in a defect and consumer fraud trial.
Successfully obtained a favorable coverage decision and reported Appellate case law in favor of the subcontractor’s insurer.
Obtained summary judgment, affirmed on appeal, on behalf of a general contractor, successfully dismissing consumer fraud claims.
Successful resolution in three brain injury trials with defense verdicts in each.

Articles

“Court Upholds ‘Employee Exclusion’”, Worksite Insurance Coverage Bulletin
“Recent Case Summary Reports on Matters Involving Insurance Coverage,” Insurance Coverage Bulletin
“Verbal Threshold Defeats Lawsuits Once Again,” Defense Digest
“Wollerman Extended,” Defense Digest
“New Challenges to Trying a Negligence Case,” Defense Digest
“PIP Insurer May Recover Payouts,” Defense Digest

Seminars

“Straight Talk about Auto Insurance Webinar, ” Webinar, YouTube
“ How Bad Faith Claims in NJ Impact Insurance Companies, ” Best’s Insurance Law Podcast