August J. Matteis

Experience

1. Chairman

   Weisbrod Matteis & Copley Pllc

   Oct 2011 — Present

   August J. Matteis, Jr. represents plaintiffs in trials and litigation across the country. Mr. Matteis has won landmark trial and appellate victories against some of the largest companies in the world. Representative matters include-Serving as lead trial counsel representing the Rigsby sisters in U.S. ex rel. Rigsby v. State Farm, a qui tam False Claims Act lawsuit. In a landmark trial victory, the Rigsbys proved that State Farm committed fraud against the U.S. government in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by improperly shifting losses under its homeowner\'s policies onto government-issued flood policies by mischaracterizing damage caused by wind as flood damage. The Rigsbys won a unanimous jury verdict, which was affirmed by the 5th Circuit and then by the U.S. Supreme Court-Serving as lead counsel for over homeowners and business owners whose properties were damaged by Hurricane Sandy and the Baton Rouge floods of 2016-Serving as lead trial counsel in In re Outsidewall Tire Litigation, 09-cv-1217, and obtaining a $26 million jury verdict on behalf of Alpha Mining Systems, a Florida-based tire designer and distributor against a tire distributor from Dubai and a tire manufacturer from China for stealing Alpha\'s intellectual property. The verdict was the largest verdict of any kind in Virginia in 2010 and one of the top 100 verdicts in the country. After the defendants initially refused to pay, Matteis and his colleagues successfully enforced the judgment-Serving as lead trial counsel in a four month long insurance coverage trial against the liability insurer of a defunct insulation installer with millions of dollars in asbestos liabilities. A New York trial court found that claims arising out of exposure to asbestos while it was being installed were not subject to aggregate limits under comprehensive general liability policies. The trial victory was described as one of the ten most significant insurance coverage decisions of 2007.

Education

• Taft School

  High School Diploma

  1983 — 1985

• Yale University

  Bachelor's degree

  1985 — 1989

• Georgetown Law

  J.D., L.L.M., Law

  1990 — 1993

Skills

• Insurance
• Corporate Law
• Liability
• Claim
• Courts
• Commercial Litigation
• Appeals
• Legal Research
• Mediation
• Civil Litigation
• Fraud
• Arbitration
• Legal Writing
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation
• Trials