Matthew Paradowski

Matt Paradowski is a litigator specializing in complex commercial insurance disputes, representing carriers, agents, and corporate insureds in jurisdictions throughout the United States. These disputes involve commercial general liability policies, commercial umbrella and excess liability policies, commercial auto liability policies, and professional liability policies. Mr. Paradowski also defends carriers from lawsuits alleging extra-contractual liability and bad faith, and regularly advises clients on handling and responding to Stowers settlement demands under Texas law.

Mr. Paradowski has significant experience in complex “other insurance,” “additional insured,” and priority of coverage disputes at times involving dozens of carriers and multiple towers of insurance. Over the course of his career, Mr. Paradowski has drafted numerous  coverage opinions involving these and numerous other coverage issues.

In addition to complex insurance coverage matters, Mr. Paradowski has also represented commercial clients in both state and federal courts in lawsuits alleging breach of contract, unfair trade practices, fraud, and other business torts, on behalf of a breadth of commercial clients including auto parts distributors, radio stations, energy companies and municipalities.

Mr. Paradowski currently serves as Managing Editor of Right Off the Press, the leading online newsletter concerning developments in Texas insurance law, and as a Managing Editor of the Journal of Texas Insurance Law. In 2019, Mr. Paradowski was elected to the governing Council of the Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.