Jan Ekelmans
Europe Guide 2024
Band 4 : Insurance
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About
Provided by Jan Ekelmans
Practice Areas
Jan Ekelmans is a lawyer and partner at Ekelmans Advocaten Insurance & Corporate. He is an authority in the field of insurance law in the Netherlands. Insurers seek his advice on complex and politically sensitive matters. Jan is especially known for his litigation, professional liability, D&O and healthcare insurance expertise and advises market leaders in health care, liability and life insurance.
Career
Jan Ekelmans has been a partner at Ekelmans Advocaten since 1994. Before joining the firm, he worked for Stibbe in Amsterdam and New York in the corporate law and litigation practice. For a number of years Jan was a deputy justice at the Arnhem–Leeuwarden court of appeal and a crown appointed member of the advisory committee that advises the Dutch Parliament and Government on civil procedural law.
Publications
Jan Ekelmans published a Phd thesis on discovery of documents, a practical handbook on the law of civil procedure and a treatise on Health care insurance. The book on health care insurance provides the first practical and thorough overview of legal opportunities and challenges in the Dutch 80 billion euro market of healthcare.
Chambers Review
Europe
Jan Ekelmans is an experienced practitioner, with notable experience advising healthcare insurers. He also assists with reinsurance matters, as well as with disputes relating to D&O liability, business interruptions and fraud.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Jan Ekelmans is very good in court: he is very articulate and outspoken, so he can present the case in a very good manner."
"Jan Ekelmans is very good in court: he is very articulate and outspoken, so he can present the case in a very good manner."