Diane Bucci

Diane Bucci is resident in the firm’s New York office. Diane represents insurance companies in a broad range of liability coverage issues under commercial, professional, employment practices, and other standard form and manuscript policies. She regularly advises insurers in complex coverage disputes involving construction defect issues, allocation issues, additional and other insured questions, and the trigger of coverage in progressive losses. She also regularly defends insurers against claims of bad faith and in declaratory judgment actions for coverage in the state and federal courts of New York and Connecticut and in a wide array of mediation and arbitration forums.

Ms. Bucci also counsels insurers on all aspects of risk management and litigation issues, including good faith obligations as well as primary-excess, allocation, and other insurance issues. She frequently provides in-house training seminars to insurers and third-party administrators regarding claims-handling practices and insurance coverage analysis and is certified to instruct on these issues in several states.

Ms. Bucci’s article “Elements of the Attorney-Client Privilege” was published in the The Brief, a publication of the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section, and her article “Reviewing New York’s Speaking Agent Rule” was published in the New York Law Journal.

Ms. Bucci serves as cochair of the Fairfield County Bar Association's Civil Litigation Committee, where she organizes and presents various programs for CLE credit. Ms. Bucci received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Ramapo College, where she was a member of the International English Honor Society. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Pace University School of Law as a recipient of the Merit Tuition Scholarship for Academic Excellence. While at Pace, Ms. Bucci served as casenote and comment editor of the Pace Law Review and received the Barbara Klein Memorial Award for academic achievement.

Ms. Bucci is admitted to practice in the state courts of Connecticut and New York as well as the United States District Court of Connecticut and the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York.

EDUCATION
- J.D., magna cum laude, Pace University School of Law, Law Review
- B.A., summa cum laude, Ramapo College, Literature

PROFESSIONAL & TRADE ASSOCIATIONS
- American Bar Association
- Connecticut Bar Association
- Fairfield County Bar Association
- National Association of Subrogation Professionals
- New York Bar Association
- Westchester Women's Bar Association

dbucci@zelmcd.com