Patrick J Wielinski

Career

Pat Wielinski practices in the areas of construction, insurance coverage and risk management. He provides advice on risk management issues and programs, integrating insurance, contract documents and project relationships to manage and transfer risk for his clients. He also counsels clients as to insurance coverage and contractual risk transfer disputes, having been involved in insurance coverage claims for defective workmanship for over 35 years. At the same time, his practice involves commercial general liability, additional insured, builders risk, wrap ups and controlled insurance programs, subcontractor default coverage, design professional, contractors protective professional liability, miscellaneous errors and omissions, environmental, oil and gas, property, directors and officers and other third party and first party coverages. Pat regularly lectures to construction, insurance, and legal groups on insurance coverage and risk management issues, having authored numerous publications, many of which are relied upon in the insurance and construction industries.

Pat represents national, state and local chapters of construction trade organizations, including the Associated General Contractors of America, in the filing of amicus curiae briefs in jurisdictions in which significant issues relating to insurance coverage for the construction industry are on appeal. The amicus curiae effort presents the arguments to be made on behalf of the entire construction industry as to the importance of the appeal.

Professional Memberships

- State Bar of Texas: Past Chair, Insurance Law Section; Construction Law and Insurance

Sections

- Defense Research Institute: Construction Law Section

- Dallas Bar Association: Construction and Tort and Insurance Sections

- American College of Coverage Counsel

- Associated General Contractors of America: National Surety Bonding and Construction Risk Management Committee

- TEXO (DFW Chapter), Associated General Contractors of America

- American Bar Association: Forum on the Construction Industry, Litigation Section, Tort Trial and Insurance Section

Publications

- Author, “Beware the Stunted CGL: Breach of Contract Endorsements,” published by International Risk Management Institute, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, at www.irmi.com, July 2020

- Author, Insurance For Defective Construction, Fifth Edition, published by International Risk Management Institute, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, September, 2018

- Author, Third Party Over Actions: Problems And Solutions, published by The Third Party and Additional Insured Liability Task Force of the Associated General Contractors of America, 1997

- Co-Author, Contractual Risk Transfer: Strategies For Contract Indemnity And Insurance Provisions, published by International Risk Management Institute, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, August, 1995

- Co-Author with Jack P. Gibson, Broad Form Property Damage Coverage, published by International Risk Management Institute, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, October, 1992