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John W. O’Farrell was appointed Vice President of Claims in September 2003. He is responsible for overseeing all activities performed by the Claims Department of Princeton Insurance.
Prior to joining Princeton, John was a trial attorney and partner in the Morristown, New Jersey, law firm of Francis and O’Farrell for 18 years. During that time he defended doctors, nurses, hospitals, nursing homes, and insurance agents, as well as directors and officers in professional negligence cases. He also represented and advised individual and corporate clients on matters such as errors and omissions claims, employment disputes and policy coverage concerns.
John served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1981 to 1985, including a two-year appointment as Chief of the Civil Division. He received the United States Department of Justice Director’s Award for Superior Performance, a distinction awarded annually to less than one percent of the Assistant U.S. Attorneys serving the United States.
Following his 1975 graduation from Fordham University School of Law, John became an attorney with Chubb & Son, Inc. in San Francisco and New York. In 1977, he accepted a position in the litigation department of the prominent New York law firm Willkie Farr and Gallagher. In 1980, he joined the corporate legal department of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. in Roseland, New Jersey, where he handled litigation management, employment matters and corporate and construction contract issues before accepting an offer to join the U.S. Attorney’s office in 1981.
John is an alumnus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he was elected to membership in Pi Sigma Alpha (the national political science honor society). He graduated with distinction in political science in 1967. |