Robert J. Cahall
While in law school, Mr. Cahall clerked for McCormick & Priore. He also served as the Managing Notes Editor for the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy. Prior to re-joining McCormick & Priore, Mr. Cahall served as the law clerk to the Honorable Richard R. Cooch, Resident Judge of the Superior Court of Delaware in and for New Castle County. Mr. Cahall serves as the chair of the Bad Faith Litigation Department. He currently focuses his practice in the areas of bad faith litigation, insurance coverage, complex liability litigation, , and appellate litigation.
• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Supreme Court of New Jersey
• Supreme Court of Delaware
• U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
• U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Rutgers University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude)
- Rutgers University (B.A., summa cum laude)
- Delaware State Bar Association
- Richard S. Rodney Inn of Court
• Appellate Advocacy
• Bad Faith Litigation
• Insurance Coverage
• Motor Vehicle Litigation
- GEICO Advantage Ins. Co. v. Wetzel, 2025 WL 1334045 (E.D. Pa. May 7, 2025), aff’d, 2026 WL 1079409 (3d Cir. Apr. 20, 2026) (summary judgment in favor of insurer on the issue of split liability limits being shared with Survival and Wrongful Death Act claims)
- CIS Mgmt., Inc. v. Commerce & Indus. Ins. Co., 2025 WL 704805, at *1 (D.N.J. Mar. 5, 2025) (summary judgment granted for excess insurer on primary insurer’s claim that the excess insurer was obligated to drop-down and provide coverage at the primary insurance policy’s sub-limit, rather than the stated attachment point)
Underlying - Kiely on Behalf of Feinstein v. Philadelphia Contributionship Ins. Co., 206 A.3d 1140, 1143 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2019) (nonsuit in favor of insurer affirmed in connection with denial of liability coverage for allegedly intentional assault)
- Scott J. Tredwell & Robert J. Cahall, Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter and its Implications for Pennsylvania Collateral Order Doctrine Jurisprudence, COUNTERPOINT (Pennsylvania Defense Inst.), Nov. 2010.
- Robert J. Cahall, Comment, Local Gun Control Laws After District of Columbia v. Heller: Silver Bullets or Shooting Blanks?, 7 RUTGERS J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 359 (2010).
- Scott J. Tredwell & Robert J. Cahall, Civil Litigation Update, PERSONAL INJURY POTPOURRI (Dispute Resolution Inst., Philadelphia, P.A.), Apr. 2010.