Attorney Profile
- Practice Areas
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Litigation
- Areas of Emphasis
- Insurance Coverage
- Asbestos and Toxic Tort Coverage
- Environmental Coverage
- Asbestos Bankruptcy
- Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- United States District Court for the Dist. of New Jersey
- Third Circuit Court of Appeals
- Education
- Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D., 1988
- University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1978
Mary Ellen Scalera
Partner
Mary Ellen Scalera, a partner with the Firm, practices in Riker Danzig’s Insurance Group. Her 20+ years of complex litigation experience has had a heavy emphasis in insurance coverage. She has represented major insurance companies in matters involving losses under first-party property, commercial/general liability, automobile, multi-peril and marine policies. She has litigated for, and provided coverage advice to, insurance companies on various types of claims, including but not limited to those related to property losses, environmental contamination and remediation, asbestos bodily injury and abatement, products liability, completed operations, advertising injury, copyright/trade dress/patent infringement and business interruption.
She is also a trained mediator, and has long held an AV® Peer Review Rating from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell -- which places her at the highest level of professional excellence.
Ms. Scalera has represented major domestic, U.K. and Bermuda insurance companies in both trial counsel and national/coordinating counsel capacities on coverage issues under primary, umbrella and excess policies. She also has extensive experience litigating asbestos bankruptcy matters. Ms. Scalera has litigated matters in the New Jersey state and federal courts, and has acted in a national counsel capacity in coverage matters in the state and federal courts of New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and California.
Ms. Scalera serves on the Firm Management Committee. She has served on the Editorial Board of The Environmental Claims Journal, and has lectured on insurance coverage allocation issues at Mealey’s and other conferences in various states. In addition, Ms. Scalera serves on the Board of Trustees for Mount Saint Dominic Academy.
