Matthew J. Gray

Matthew J. Gray


Young Moore and Henderson, P.A.

Recognized since 2020

Raleigh, North Carolina

Practice Areas

Insurance Law

Litigation - Insurance

Litigation - Labor and Employment

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Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2022 - Insurance Law
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Matthew Gray represents and advises insurers, healthcare facilities, corporations, and individuals. His practice includes complex insurance coverage analysis and counseling, bad faith litigation, employment counseling and litigation, long-term care claims, and administrative law. Matt represents his clients in the trial and appellate divisions of the state and federal courts throughout North Carolina. Currently, Matt is assisting clients with employment matters related to COVID-19 and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act including issues surrounding emergency paid sick leave, FMLA, and government issued orders for essential and non-essential businesses. He is also assisting clients with the analysis of insurance coverage issues related to COVID-19.

Matt’s insurance practice involves advising insurers on complex first- and third-party coverage matters, including among others Commercial and Residential Property policies, Condominium policies, Commercial General Liability policies, Farm policies, Tobacco policies, Crime policies, and EPLI policies. He routinely advises insurers on coverage matters involving those policies. He frequently provides coverage opinions, assists with Examinations Under Oath, and represents insurers in coverage litigation throughout North Carolina. Matt also has extensive experience in drafting insurance policies, including Commercial and Residential Wind policies, Crime policies, and many different Residential and Commercial policy endorsements.

Matt’s employment practice includes all aspects of employment and labor law counseling and litigation. This includes advising and representing companies on EEOC litigation matters, Wage and Hour disputes and Department of Labor complaints. He advises a wide variety of business on day-to-day employment matters, including appropriate Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs), Wage and Hour issues, various ERISA issues, and the requirements of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Matt also counsels companies on employment policies and procedures, and has extensive experience drafting policy and procedures manuals, employment agreements and severance packages.

Matt’s long-term care practice includes defending long-term care facilities against claims of medical negligence and assisting with regulatory investigations. Matt has extensive experience defending long-term care negligence claims in both state and federal courts in North Carolina.

Matt’s administrative law practice includes representing individuals and companies in the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings, particularly matters involving on-site waste water systems.

Matt received his undergraduate degree in Business Management from North Carolina State University in 1998. After graduating, he worked as a title insurance underwriter for two years before attending Wake Forest University School of Law.

Matt has been with the firm since 2003. He was voted a shareholder in 2009, and appointed to the firm’s practice management committee in 2017.

Location
  • 3101 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 200
    P.O. Box 31627
    Raleigh, NC 27622-1627
Education
  • Wake Forest University, J.D., graduated 2003
  • North Carolina State University, B.S., graduated 1998
Bar Admissions
  • North Carolina, 2003
Affiliations
  • North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys - Member
  • Defense Research International - Member
  • North Carolina Healthcare Facility Association - Member
  • North Carolina Association of Long Term Care Facilities - Member
  • Wake County Bar Association - Member
  • North Carolina Bar Association - Member
  • American Bar Association - Member
Court Admissions
  • U.S. District Courts for North Carolina
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2022 - Insurance Law
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Insurance Law, Raleigh (2022)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Insurance Law
  • Litigation - Insurance
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment
Awards:
  • Listed in North Carolina’s Super Lawyers® as a “Rising Star” (2012-2016)
  • CALI Excellence for the Future Award, Estate and Gift Taxation
  • Wake Forest University School of Law, Stanly Moot Court Competition Quarterfinalist (2001)
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers In America© in the field of Litigation-Insurance (2020)
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Administrative / Regulatory Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation - Health Care
  • Litigation - Real Estate

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