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Rabih Hamawi

Oct 25, 2023
4 min

Rabih Hamawi: From Insurance Agent to Insurance Lawyer

Sometimes seminal moments in one’s life can change a career path. For Rabih Hamawi (Story Class, 2015), who at the time, owned and...

Occurrence-Based and Claims-Made Insurance Policies

Rabih Hamawi

Jun 2, 2023
6 min

Occurrence-Based and Claims-Made Insurance Policies

Generally, there are two types of liability insurance policies: occurrence-based and claims-made policies. Occurrence-based are the more...

Insurable Losses: Fortuity, Loss in Progress, and Known Risk

Rabih Hamawi

Feb 24, 2023
5 min

Insurable Losses: Fortuity, Loss in Progress, and Known Risk

Author’s note. This article is the first of what is intended to be a continuing series on topics related to insurance and indemnity law...

MiLW Announces its Class of 2020 Up & Coming Lawyers

Rabih Hamawi

Nov 30, 2020
2 min

MiLW Announces its Class of 2020 Up & Coming Lawyers

This program honors Michigan lawyers who have established a name for themselves by displaying the ambition, drive, and accomplishments...

Michigan Lawyers Weekly: Insurer’s Failure to Pay Leads to Settlement, Sanctions

Rabih Hamawi

Sep 13, 2020
3 min

Michigan Lawyers Weekly: Insurer’s Failure to Pay Leads to Settlement, Sanctions

This is an action for damages arising out of a fire that destroyed plaintiff Antwan Herman’s commercial property and his business...

Coronavirus (Covid-19) And Business Income Insurance

Rabih Hamawi

Apr 20, 2020
3 min

Coronavirus (Covid-19) And Business Income Insurance

March 26, 2020—Over the past week, I have received many calls from business owners asking if they may recover Business-Income losses...

Michigan's Renewal Rule: The Insured's Last Resort

Rabih Hamawi

Mar 1, 2019
7 min

Michigan's Renewal Rule: The Insured's Last Resort

According to the Insurance Information Institute, insurance companies wrote total net premiums of $1.2 trillion in 2017.1 Based on my...

An Insured's Post-Loss Duty to Cooperate in Property Insurance Policies

Rabih Hamawi

Jan 1, 2018
8 min

An Insured's Post-Loss Duty to Cooperate in Property Insurance Policies

Most property insurance policies, such as homeowners, dwelling fires, or commercial property policies, contain many duties and...

“Other Insurance” Clauses in Property and Liability Insurance Policies: Frequently Misunderstood

Rabih Hamawi

Apr 2, 2017
5 min

“Other Insurance” Clauses in Property and Liability Insurance Policies: Frequently Misunderstood

Most property and liability insurance policies contain “other insurance” clauses that insurers insert to restrict or limit their liab...

Insurable Interest and a Claimant’s Status in Property Insurance Policies

Rabih Hamawi

Oct 4, 2016
4 min

Insurable Interest and a Claimant’s Status in Property Insurance Policies

Claimants in first party property-damage cases may believe that being the named insured on the Declarations of a property insur...

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