Critical Issues in Liability Insurance Coverage and Related Litigation

Mr. Tallmadge is a member of the law firm of Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C., and practices in its Florham Park, New Jersey office.  Mr. Tallmadge directs the firm’s Litigation Practice Group.  Mr. Tallmadge’s practice is concentrated in trial and appellate litigation, including professional negligence, insurance coverage, bad faith issues, and insurance insolvency and guaranty association matters. 

Mr. Tallmadge is admitted to practice in both New Jersey and Illinois, as well as the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits.  Mr. Tallmadge has been involved in numerous reported decisions and appears frequently in New Jersey’s appellate courts for the guaranty fund community as well as his other clients.  Mr. Tallmadge is a participant in the NCIGF Coordination of Litigation Committee.  He was appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey to the District XA Ethics Committee and served four years, acting as the Committee Chair in 2010.  Mr. Tallmadge has also been a featured speaker for the New Jersey State Bar Association, as well as the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.

Jeffrey Schulman is a New York-based partner in the Insurance Coverage Group of Dickstein Shapiro LLP. Jeffrey is a member of the firm’s Hiring Committee and is the hiring partner for the New York office. Jeffrey also leads the group’s General Liability Practice. He is frequently speaks and is published and quoted on issues of insurance law. Jeffrey was named a “Rising Star” by the New York Law Journal; recommended by the Legal 500: The Client’s Guide to the US Legal Profession, describing him as “humane and brilliant”; and named a New York Metro Super Lawyer.

Constance Anastopoulo is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Economics and a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree.  She joined the Charleston School of Law Faculty in 2007 teaching Evidence and Insurance Law.  In 2011, she was chosen “Professor of the Year” by the students. 

Prior to coming to the Charleston School of Law, Professor Anastopoulo served as a senior litigator in the civil litigation division of the Charleston law firm, Anastopoulo & Clore, LLC where she managed the appellate practice for the firm.  She was the lead counsel in the seminal case Gaskins v. Southern Farm Bureau, which was chosen one of the ten most important decisions in S.C. by Lawyer’s Weekly in 2003.

In 2009, she authored the Amicus Curie Brief on behalf of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina in the case of Segars-Andrews v. Judicial Merit Selection Commission, et al., which received national attention.  She has also published articles on Judicial Selection, Insurance law, Torts, Privacy, and Professional Responsibility.

Professor Anastopoulo is a member of the S.C. Bar, the Charleston Bar Association, the S.C. Women Lawyers Assoc. and admitted to the S.C. Supreme Court, the S.C. Court of Appeals, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the U.S. District Court, 4th Circuit.  She teaches primarily in the areas of Insurance and Torts, but also teaches Evidence and Professional Responsibility.