Overview
Greg Nowakowski advises businesses on risk management strategy, alternative risk financing, regulatory compliance, and general corporate governance.
- Assists clients on captive insurance and alternative risk financing matters, feasibility studies, formation, and ongoing representation of captive insurance companies
- Provides recommendations regarding captive domiciles, ownership structures, insurance policy provisions, funding approaches, and inter-company agreements from a legal and regulatory perspective
- Counsels captive insurance companies on tax and regulatory issues associated with ongoing operations
- Assists clients in restructuring of insurance programs, including mergers and acquisitions of captive insurance companies
- Negotiates insurance business agreements, including bank custody agreements, investment management agreements, and insurance program participation agreements
- Reviews, interprets and drafts insurance policies, including analysis and questions of coverage
- Consults on areas of healthcare law relevant to regulatory compliance of healthcare captive insurance companies and their owners
- Experience in structuring risk purchasing groups and risk retention groups in various domiciles
- Structures risk financing matters for government and quasi-government risk pools and associations
Services
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
Wayne State University Law School, LL.M.
- Labor and Employment Law
Wayne State University Law School, J.D.
- Jason L. Honigman Award; Lombard Fellow
- The Wayne Law Review, Editor in Chief
Michigan State University, James Madison College, B.A.
- 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