Overview

Greta Matzen focuses her practice on insurance coverage counseling and litigation for commercial and specialty clients nationwide, drawing from over two decades of experience spanning both in-house and outside counsel roles.

Greta represents commercial and specialty insurers as lead litigation counsel in complex coverage disputes involving a wide array of underlying claims and advises clients about coverage, underwriting, and agency issues in non-litigated coverage matters. Insurance companies rely on Greta to find practical, efficient paths to resolution of complex coverage disputes involving product liability, construction defect, environmental, mass tort, clergy and abuse litigation, public entity, management, transportation, and commercial property claims. Greta also handles coverage issues and coverage litigation involving underlying attorney malpractice, advertising injury, health care, and directors and officers’ liability. She also guides clients through questions of bad faith, agency and broker relationships, policy language, underwriting, and extra-contractual risk, and drafts coverage opinions and position letters for disputed claims.

Prior to joining Foran Glennon, Greta held lead in-house roles at major insurance carriers, providing her with a unique perspective into how claims and underwriting professionals address policy language disputes. Additionally, she managed a U.S. team of coverage litigators at a global specialty carrier and advised claim leadership from within a corporate law department. Most recently, Greta served as a Partner at a national insurance coverage firm, where she helped develop and lead the firm’s Denver team.

Representative Matters

• A.R. Wilfley & Sons, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., No. 25SA265, 2026 WL 2820029 (Colo. Sept. 21, 2026) Obtained appellate holding from the Colorado Supreme Court that the insurer “steps into the shoes” of insolvent, scheduled underlying insurer by providing first-dollar indemnity and defense costs to insured.
• West Bend Mut. Ins. Co. v. Village Green, LLC, et al., No. 2014 CH 949, 2018 WL 112626427 (Ill. Cir. Ct. 2019) Obtained MSJ and recovery of $300,000 in construction defect coverage lawsuit.
• World Water Works v. Continental Cas. Co., 392 F. Supp. 3d 923 (N.D. Ill. 2019) MSJ granted in Directors & Officers coverage dispute based on Insured v. Insured exclusion.
• Shad’s Inc. v. Continental Cas. Co., et al., No. CIV-17-1031-SLP, 2019 WL 3022201 (W.D. Okla. 2019) MSJ granted on related claims issue in underlying attorney malpractice case.
• Diocese of Duluth v. Liberty Mut. Group, et al., No.-CV-02002 (D. Minn. 2017) Represented underwriting entities in coverage dispute involving underlying Catholic Diocese abuse litigation.
• Diocese of St. Cloud et al., No. 0:17-CV-02002 (Bankr. D. Minn. 2017) Motion to Dismiss granted in coverage litigation involving underlying Catholic Diocese abuse litigation.
• In re Diocese of Duluth, No. 5:15-BK-50792 (Bankr. D. Minn. 2015) Represented CNA underwriting entities in coverage dispute involving underlying abuse litigation.
• Transportation Ins. Co. v. WH Cleaners, Inc., 372 S.W.3d 223 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2012, no pet.) Won appeal on justiciability issues as they pertain to underlying claims of pollution, resulting in policy buy-back for a nominal amount.
• Pennsylvania Nat’l Mut. Co. v. Hanna Steel Corp., No. CV-08-J-0645, 2009 WL 10687898 (N.D. Ala. 2009) MSJ granted based on application of pollution exclusion.
• American Institute of Intradermal Cosmetics, Inc. v. Maryland Cas. Co., Case No. 4:05-CV-00300 (N.D. Tex. 2005), aff’d, 207 F. App’x 417 (5^th Cir. 2006) MSJ granted on basis that policy’s exclusion for “products—completed operations hazard” barred coverage for lawsuit arising out of injuries caused by defects in cosmetic lip implantations produced by the insured.
• Transportation Ins. Co. v. Stemberger et al., Case No. 05-4110-CV-C-SOW, 2005 WL 1244527 (W.D. Mo. 2005) MSJ granted on the basis that employer’s liability exclusion barred coverage.

Professional Leadership

Greta serves on Law360’s 2026 Colorado Editorial Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Claims and Litigation Management (CLM) Alliance, Colorado Bar Association, Defense Research Institute (DRI), and Denver Bar Association.

Honors & Recognitions

Greta has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Insurance Law in Denver since 2027. She was previously selected to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars list.

More information on awards and rankings can be found here.

Education

Greta earned her J.D. from Baylor University School of Law in 1999, with a focus in civil litigation. She completed her B.A. in psychology and her B.A. in human development, with distinction and departmental honors, at the University of Kansas in 1997.

Admissions

Greta is authorized to practice in Colorado, Illinois, and Texas, as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the District of Colorado, the Northern District of Illinois, and the Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas.

Publications & Presentations

• “Top Ten Colorado Insurance Decisions of 2022,” Colorado Bar Association Insurance Committee Annual Meeting, 2023