Overview
Julie Robertson is an insurance lawyer who concentrates her practice on alternative risk financing. She possesses over 20 years of experience in representing businesses, both taxable and tax-exempt, across the country in connection with their alternative risk programs.
- Organizes and represents captive insurance companies, self-insurance programs, risk purchasing groups, rent-a-captives, and risk retention groups
- Advises clients on legal aspects of feasibility studies and structural models for alternative risk programs
- Counsels owners/sponsors of alternative risk financing arrangements on legal, regulatory, and strategic issues
- Advises clients on insurance program structure, including excess coverage and reinsurance arrangements
- Possesses extensive experience with captive insurance companies with multiple owners
- Possesses experience with companies in the leading captive insurance domiciles
- Advises captive boards on best practices, compliance, corporate governance, and strategic planning
- Provides reviews and interpretations of insurance policies and analyses of questions of coverage
- Lectures frequently on alternative risk programs at national and international conferences
- Familiar with areas of healthcare law relevant to regulatory compliance of healthcare captive insurance companies and their owners
Services
Practice Areas
Credentials
Education
Wayne State University Law School, J.D.
- cum laude; Order of the Coif
University of Michigan, B.A.
- with distinction
Admissions
- Michigan
- Ohio
Recognition
Awards
- Captive Review Power 50 Captive Insurance Professional, 2021-2023
- The Best Lawyers in America, 2007-2023
- Recognized in practice areas of Health Care Law and Insurance Law
- Detroit Health Care Law "Lawyer of the Year," 2019
- Detroit Insurance Law "Lawyer of the Year," 2017, 2022
- Michigan Super Lawyers, 2009-2022
- Named as one of the Top 50 Women Super Lawyers, 2010-2012
- DBusiness, Top Lawyers, 2010-2011, 2013-2017, and 2019, 2022
- Michigan Lawyers Weekly, Recognized as a Leader in the Law, 2019
- Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
Professional & Community Involvement
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Insurance Managers Association of the Cayman Islands
- National Risk Retention Association
- South Carolina Captive Insurance Association, Inc.