About Rabih
Rabih Hamawi earned a M.S. in Finance from Walsh College in 2005 and a J.D. from Western Michigan University in 2014. He taught temporarily as an adjunct school member on the University of Phoenix in 2010. Those early steps set the tone for a career that mixes legal training and coverage industry information.
He started legal practice on the appellate aspect. In 2013 he labored as a law clerk in the appellate branch at Collins Einhorn Farrell. In 2014 he served as a legal intern on the United States Lawyer's Office. He joined Fabian, Sklar and King, P.C. in 2016 and opened his own firm, the Law Office of Rabih Hamawi, P.C., in 2017.
Hamawi holds numerous insurance and danger credentials that are unusual among general legal proceedings practitioners. He is a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), a Certified Insurance Consultant (CIC), a Certified Risk Manager (CRM) and a Life Insurance Counselor and Multiple Lines Property and Casualty Insurance Counselor beneath the Michigan Office of Insurance and Financial Services. Those certifications inform how he strategies coverage interpretation and coverage disputes.
He is licensed to practice in Michigan and within the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan. That combination of state and federal admission mirrors the mix of matters he handles. His early appellate knowledge continues to influence his litigation strategy in trial and submit-trial settings.
Professional exercise has been a continuous a part of his practice. Since 2017 he has served as Vice Chair of the Property Insurance Law Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. He has been a member of the State Bar of Michigan’s Insurance and Indemnity Law Section since 2016 and chaired that area starting in 2021. He additionally participates in nearby Inns of Court programs in Oakland County and the Detroit metro area. Other affiliations include the Michigan Association of Justice, the International Institute of Risk Managers and the ICLE New Lawyers Advisory Board.
Colleagues and opponents encounter a lawyer who blends insurance enterprise credentials with trial experience. His work spans policy interpretation, indemnity questions and coverage-associated coverage litigation. He runs his personal practice from his company and appears regularly in both state and federal courts. He presently concentrates his practice on insurance and indemnity things, civil legal proceedings and appellate work.
