Anthony L. Miscioscia Partner

Anthony Miscioscia has a broad range of experience in complex insurance coverage, bad faith and commercial litigation matters. He is a knowledgeable and experienced coverage attorney and litigator who provides cost-effective, proactive advice to clients in the hopes of avoiding or minimizing litigation and tenaciously represents clients in suit when needed.

Tony represents major property and casualty insurers and smaller regional insurance companies on a national and regional basis.  His practice includes representation in state and federal courts, as well as in private arbitrations and mediations.  He has handled insurance coverage and bad faith matters involving complex and emerging issues, including advertising injury/intellectual property, construction defect, legal, accounting and other professional liability, environmental liability, educator's legal liability, employment discrimination, and employee benefits coverage and bad faith litigation.  He has also represented clients in litigation involving business and commercial disputes, including contractual indemnification, defamation and breach of contract claims. 

Tony has presented lectures to the insurance industry on topics ranging from advertising injury/intellectual property coverage and construction defect coverage to successor liability and employee benefits liability coverage. 

During law school, Tony served on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif.

Representative Matters

• Case on behalf of excess Directors and Officers insurer alleging unjust enrichment and other claims against primary carrier, and its claims handling entity, arising out of their wrongful settlement of underlying claims against common insureds
• Numerous insurance coverage actions on behalf of insurance company clients involving construction defect claims in multiple jurisdictions, as well as representing carrier lients in their efforts to intervene in underlying construction defect actions for purposes of submitting special jury interrogatories allocating possible award between covered and uncovered damages
• Won appeal before the Pennsylvania Superior Court, reversing the trial court’s coverage ruling against insurance client, in a coverage dispute involving additional insureds, excess/primary and expected/intended injury exclusion issues

Recognition & Involvement

In 2005, 2006 and 2007, Tony was named in a survey of his peers as a Pennsylvania "Rising Star" attorney by Law & Politics magazine.