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.

Articles on IRMI.com

Insurance Law: Construction Defect Coverage

CGL Exclusions May Impact Coverage for Occurrences Involving Defective Work (October 2009)

Defective Construction as an Occurrence (April 2008)

2007 Defective Construction Insurance Cases (February 2008)

Court Weighs in on Defective Construction as Occurrence (September 2007)

"Defective Construction as Occurrence" 2007: Too Close To Call (May 2007)

Complex Construction Defect Claims: Who Pays First?—Part 1 (June 2006)

Complex Construction Defect Claims: Who Pays First?—Part 2 (July 2006)

Trying to Reconcile the Irreconcilable: Making Sense of Recent Caselaw on Occurrence (December 2005)

Sore Knees: Recent Caselaw Ignoring the Subcontractor Exception (November 2004)

Recent Caselaw Applying the Subcontractor Exception: Too Little Too Late? (August 2004)

The New Business Risk Rationale (Part 1) (December 2003)

The New Business Risk Rationale (Part 2) (December 2003)

The Myth of "Third-Party" Property Damage (May 2003)

Even More on Defective Work as an "Occurrence" (October 2002)

Potomoc Insurance v Huang: One Court's View of "Legally Obligated" under the CGL Insuring Agreement (June 2002)

Policy Modifications and Endorsements Relating to Liability Insurance Coverage for Mold (March 2002)

Full Circle Regression: The New ISO "Your Work" Endorsements (January 2002)

Glorifying Form over Substance: "Legally Obligated" in the CGL Insuring Agreement (August 2001)

Back to the Exclusions—The "Subcontractor" Exception (May 2001)

Insurance Coverage for Mold Arising Out of Defective Workmanship (February 2001)

More on Defective Work as an Occurrence (November 2000)

Defective Work as an Occurrence (July 2000)

The Changing Landscape of Coverage Disputes Over Defective Work Claims (March 2000)