August J. Matteis, Jr. represents corporate plaintiffs and classes of individuals in complex commercial litigation and trials across the country.  Mr. Matteis often represents policyholders against insurance companies in insurance coverage disputes; he represents corporations and individual plaintiffs in cases involving fraud, breach of contract, unfair business practices, securities and employment-related disputes. 

Mr. Matteis also spends a substantial amount of his time representing plaintiffs in public interest lawsuits, such as consumer protection and discrimination claims.

Current matters include:

• Serving as lead trial and appellate counsel to a class of more than 20,000 individuals in Continental Casualty Company v. Employers Insurance Company of Wausau, Index No. 601037/03 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. May 8, 2007).  The New York trial court issued a landmark decision for policyholders and claimants, which held that the comprehensive general liability insurance policies at issue contain no aggregate limits for operations claims brought against asbestos installers.

• Serving as lead counsel to a Fortune 100 bank in a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia against a mortgage lender that allegedly committed massive fraud by making multiple unrecorded and illegal loans on numerous properties and selling the loans to various banks.

• Serving as lead counsel in a series of class actions brought across the country against an internet service provider that allegedly violated various consumer protection statutes for failing to disclose to its customers that it intentionally blocks and slows its customers' access to certain internet applications, including peer-to-peer file sharing.

• Serving as counsel to a number of plaintiffs who brought suit in the district of Columbia against a major international hotel chain that has allegedly failed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act in its hotels across the country.

Prior to joining Gilbert LLP in 2001, Mr. Matteis was a litigation and employment associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

• State Farm Qui Tam Suit Over Flood Claims Survives, Law360, August 12, 2009
• Closing Protection Letters: Important Tools for Protecting Morgage-backed Assets, March 2009
• Court Holds That Insurer Cannot Disclaim Coverage on Grounds Not Included in Its Initial Disclaimer, March 1, 2009
• Insurance Coverage for Contractors' Asbestos Liabilities: Key Settlement Issues, NIA News, January 2008
• Non-Products Coverage for Contractors' Asbestos Liabilities, NIA News, August 2007
• New York Court Finds That Aggregate Limits Do Not Apply To Asbestos Installation, Mealy's Litigation Report, June 14, 2007

• Mealey's Asbestos Insurance Teleconference: Where We Stand in Light of Keasbey, August 7, 2007

• Most Of Conseco Class Action Survives Bid To Toss, Law 360, July 31, 2009
• Gilbert Oshinsky LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Weight Watchers and Applebee's for False Nutritional Advertising, September 10, 2008
• Gilbert Randolph Files File-Sharing Class Action Against Comcast, July 22, 2008
• Gilbert Randolph Files File-Sharing Class Action Against Comcast, Legal Times, July 22, 2008
• Comcast Faces New Lawsuit Over P2P Blocking, TR Daily, July 21, 2008
• Gilbert Randolph LLP Announces Three Class Action Lawsuits Against Comcast for Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices, June 5, 2008
• Comcast Faces Class Action, Comcast Digital News, February 21, 2008
• Gilbert Randolph LLP Welcomes Returning Litigation Partner, June 8, 2007
• On the Move, Legal Times, January 19, 2004