ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gary Wickert is an insurance trial lawyer and is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on insurance subrogation. He is the author of several subrogation books and legal treatises and is a national and international speaker and lecturer on subrogation and motivational topics. Gary is also a politician in Wisconsin, recently elected to and serving his second term as Town Supervisor in the Township of Cedarburg. After 15 years as the youngest managing partner in the history of the 30-lawyer Houston law firm of Hughes, Watters & Askanase, L.L.P., Gary returned to his native Wisconsin in 1998 and co-founded the firm of Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C. He oversees a National Recovery Program which includes a network of nearly 300 contracted subrogation law firms in all 50 states, Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom and boasts recoveries of more than $300 million in recoveries and credits for more than 250 insurance companies. Gary is also a commercial fiction author and his latest political thriller, Dark Redemption (Tudor Publishers), is available on Amazon.com.

Licensed in both Texas and Wisconsin, Gary is double boardcertified in both personal injury law and civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is also nationally certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, for whom he has both written and graded the product liability questions contained on the NBTA national certification exam taken by trial lawyers around the country. For nearly twenty-five years, Gary has also served as an expert witness on subrogation and insurance related issues and has been consulted by insurance carriers, lawyers, and legislative bodies from several states. He is a licensed arbitrator and has attended more than 750 mediations in more than 30 different states. He is one of only a few lawyers to have ever represented a client before the United States Supreme Court on a subrogation issue

In 2002, Gary authored and published a treatise entitled “Workers’ Compensation Subrogation In All 50 States” (Juris Publishing, Inc., New York) and in 2005, he authored and published “ERISA and Health Insurance Subrogation In All 50 States” (Juris Publishing, Inc., New York). You can preview the contents and chapter summaries of both books at www.jurispub.com. These books serve as the bible on workers’ compensation and healthcare subrogation throughout the country and are the most thorough and complete treatises on these subjects ever published. For information about Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer’s National Recovery Program, including fees, list of clients, numerous subrogation links, reported subrogation decisions, and published articles on the issue of subrogation, see the firm website at http://www.mwl-law.com. Gary Wickert can be reached at gwickert@mwl-law.com .