Overview
Greg Nowakowski advises businesses on risk management strategy, alternative risk financing, regulatory compliance, and general corporate governance. He has extensive experience assisting clients with captive insurance and alternative risk financing matters, including conducting feasibility studies, forming captive insurance companies, and providing ongoing representation. Greg offers tailored recommendations on captive domiciles, ownership structures, insurance policy provisions, funding approaches, and inter-company agreements, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards.
In his work with captive insurance companies, Greg counsels on tax and regulatory issues, guiding clients through the complexities of ongoing operations. He has also supported clients in restructuring insurance programs, including mergers and acquisitions of captive insurance companies. His expertise extends to negotiating critical insurance business agreements, such as bank custody agreements, investment management agreements, and insurance program participation agreements.
Greg is adept at reviewing, interpreting, and drafting insurance policies, providing detailed analyses and addressing questions of coverage. He also consults on healthcare law issues relevant to the regulatory compliance of healthcare captive insurance companies and their owners. His experience includes structuring risk purchasing groups and risk retention groups across various domiciles and advising on risk financing matters for government and quasi-government risk pools and associations.
Services
Practice Areas
Experience
Prior Experience
- Rogers, Mantese & Associates, Associate, 2007-2012
- Jeremy Dalpiaz for City Council Campaign, Treasurer, 2003-2005
Clerkships
- Judge Denis LeDuc, 42nd District Court (Division 1) for Michigan, Clerk, 2005
Credentials
Education
- Labor and Employment Law
- Jason L. Honigman Award; Lombard Fellow
- The Wayne Law Review, Editor in Chief
- International Relations
- with honors; Phi Beta Kappa
- James Madison Student Senate; James Madison Judicial Committee Member
Admissions
- Michigan
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Recognition
Awards
- Michigan Super Lawyers, Recognized as a Rising Star, 2009-2022
- Chiropractic Advocate Award, 2015
Professional & Community Involvement
American Bar Association
American Health Lawyers Association
Oakland County Bar Association
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2009-present
- Chair, 2010-2011
- Vice Chair, 2009-2010
State Bar of Michigan
- Health Care Law Section, 2008-present
- Substantive Law Section, 2012-present
- Medical Legal Subcommittee, 2012-present
- Chair, 2015
- Publications Committee, 2009-present
- HIPAA Task Force, Co-chair, 2014-present
- Labor and Employment Law Section, 2008-2014
State Bar of Michigan Annual Law Day, Attorney Advisor, 2012-2015
- 2015 Publication “Women Who Changed The World,” Co-editor, a publication of Cranbrook students celebrating women across the country who have changed the world for the better; a 2015 publication of Sunbury Press
- 2014 Submission and Law Day First Prize Winner, Co-producer, “Judgment in Detroit,” a production of Cranbrook students celebrating Damon J. Keith’s participation in the U.S. v. Sinclair litigation regarding the contours of the Fourth Amendment’s search and seizure protections
- 2013 Submission and Law Day First Prize Winner, Co-producer, “Murphy’s Dissent – Korematsu v. United States,” a production of Cranbrook students celebrating Justice Frank Murphy of the U.S. Supreme Court writing in dissent and championing non-discrimination against the Japanese
- 2012 Submission and Law Day First Prize Winner, Co-producer, “Michigan: No Courts, No Justice, No Freedom,” a production of Cranbrook students celebrating Michigan Legal Milestones, and a 1913 trial involving Former President Theodore Roosevelt related to defamation in the Upper Peninsula