Patrick J. Wielinski

Pat Wielinski contributes articles on insurance coverage for defective construction to IRMI.com. He is a principal in the Dallas-Fort Worth office of Cokinos, Bosien & Young.

Mr. Wielinski is a principal in the Dallas-Forth Worth office of Cokinos, Bosien & Young. He practices in the areas of construction, insurance coverage and risk management. Mr. Wielinski has advised clients, and litigated and appealed insurance coverage claims involving defective workmanship for 25 years. He is admitted to practice before the courts of the states of Texas and Minnesota, the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and other state and federal courts.

Mr. Wielinski is Past Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. He serves on the Risk Management Committee of the Associated General Contractors of America. He is a member of the ABA Forum Committee on the Construction Industry and the Insurance Coverage and Construction Committees of the ABA Litigation Section. He received his BA degree from St. John's University and his law degree from the University of Minnesota.

Mr. Wielinski regularly lectures to construction, insurance, and legal groups on insurance coverage and risk management issues. He is the author of Insurance for Defective Construction, Second edition, published by IRMI, as well as numerous other publications for insurance, construction, and legal organizations. He is also the coauthor of Contractual Risk Transfer: Strategies for Contractual Indemnity and Insurance Provisions, which are also published by IRMI.