Practice Emphasis
Construction Insurance and Risk Management

Professional Summary
Pat Wielinski provides preventive "front end" advice on risk management issues and programs, integrating insurance, contract documents and project relationships to manage and transfer risk in the construction industry. He also counsels clients as to insurance coverage and contractual risk transfer disputes, having litigated and appealed insurance coverage cases involving defective workmanship for nearly 20 years. Pat regularly lectures to construction, insurance, and legal groups on insurance coverage and risk management issues. Pat is the author of Insurance for Defective Construction: Beyond Broad Form Property Damage Coverage, published by International Risk Management Institute, Inc., as well as numerous other publications for insurance, construction, and legal organizations. A link to this publication, together with a series of risk management columns authored by Pat can be found at www.irmi.com. He is also the coauthor of Broad Form Property Damage Coverage, Third Edition, and Contractual Risk Transfer: Strategies for Contractual Indemnity and Insurance Provisions, also published by International Risk Management Institute, Inc., as well as Third Party Over Actions: Problems and Solutions, published by the Risk Management Committee of the Associated General Contractors of America. He was named a Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly Magazine for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007. Mr. Wielinski is "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings, the highest rating possible.

Education
University of Minnesota, (J.D., cum laude, 1981)
Saint John's University (B.A., Government, summa cum laude, 1977)

Bar Admissions
State Bar of Texas (1986)
Supreme Court of Minnesota (1981)
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
United States District Court, District of Minnesota
United States District Court:

Eastern District of Texas
Northern District of Texas
Southern District of Texas
Western District of Texas
United States Claims Court

Memberships & Affiliations
State Bar of Texas:

Chairman Elect, Insurance Law Section
Construction Law Section

Dallas Bar Association:

Construction Law Section
Tort & Insurance Practice Section

Tarrant County Bar Association:

ADR Section

American Bar Association:

Insurance Coverage Committee of the Litigation Section
Fidelity & Surety and Insurance Coverage Litigation Committees of the Tort & Insurance Practice Section
Forum on the Construction Industry

Defense Research Institute:

Construction Law Section
Chair, Construction Insurance Subcommittee

Associated General Contractors of America
National Risk Management Committee
QUOIN (DFW Chapter)
Risk Management Forum
Construction Arbitration Panel
American Arbitration Association
Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating

Patrick J. Wielinski

Principal

Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas
(817) 635-3620 (Direct)
(817) 635-3633 (Fax)
pwielinski@cbylaw.com

Publications