Gregory M. Gotwald

Gregory M. Gotwald is a partner with Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP in Indianapolis and focuses his litigation practice on insurance-coverage law. He co-leads the firm’s COVID-19 insurance recovery work, helping businesses recovery lost income from the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Gotwald has experience with various types of insurance policies, including commercial general liability (CGL), firstparty property (including business income/business interruption), product liability, director and officer (D&O), errors and omissions (E&O), fidelity, crime and pollution-liability policies. He works on high- stakes cases with hundreds of millions of dollars at issue, as well as small individual cases. He advises corporate clients on potential gaps in their coverage programs, and also has experience with brokerliability claims. In recognition of this work, he has been named a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel. Additionally, Mr. Gotwald 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 and other business-related matters. He served as the firm’s managing partner and on its management committee for multiple years. Mr. Gotwald has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Insurance Law each year since 2020 and has been listed in Indiana Super Lawyers for Insurance Coverage annually since 2018. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering in 2001 from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and his J.D. cum laude in 2004 from Vermont Law School.