Gregory M. Gotwald

Greg focuses his litigation practice on insurance-coverage law. Greg is one of the firm’s leaders in its insurance recovery work, helping businesses recovery lost income from the coronavirus pandemic. He has extensive experience with various types of insurance policies, including commercial general liability (“CGL”), first-party property (including business income/business interruption), product liability, director and officer (“D&O”), errors and omissions (“E&O”), fidelity, crime, pollution-liability policies, etc. He works on high stakes cases with hundreds of millions of dollars at issue, as well as small individual cases. He works with co-counsel (underlying defense counsel, bankruptcy counsel, etc.) regularly, serving exclusively as coverage counsel. He advises corporate clients on potential gaps in their coverage programs, and also has experience with broker-liability claims. In recognition of this work, Greg has been named a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel.

Additionally, Greg handles environmental cases, involving the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), Indiana’s Environmental Liability Act (“ELA”), and other statutory and common-law claims. He also has litigated various other complex matters involving construction defects, breach of contract, attorney malpractice and other business-related matters.

Greg has served as the firm’s managing partner and on its management committee for multiple years.