Gary P. Timin

Received the highest ranking given for both legal ability and professional ethics in the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings (AV Preeminent).
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008–2020, an honor based on an exhaustive peer-review process.

Gary Timin focuses his law practice on insurance, governmental and regulatory affairs, healthcare, and business and transactional matters, including corporate governance and commercial contracts. He has also handled related business, administrative, and regulatory litigation. His clients are often, but not always, in insurance, financial services, healthcare, and other intensively regulated sectors.
He counsels on business formations, licensing, sales, mergers and acquisitions, varied commercial contracts and transactions, and government procurement matters, as well as state and federal regulatory compliance, applications, and approvals. As a litigator, he has handled insurance, corporate, regulatory, and certain securities matters and has also dealt often with state and federal antitrust, trade regulation, and receivership cases. His engagements also include representing companies in state regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, as well as civil litigation in Florida and federal courts and in administrative settings in multiple jurisdictions.
He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America annually since 2008 and received a five-star rating on the Association of Corporate Counsel Value Index for 2009. He has received an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell annually since 2000, the highest rating for ability and ethics, and in 2013 was rated as a Top Lawyer in Health Care. He has been a member of The Florida Bar Section of Corporation, Banking, and Business Law and its Section of Administrative Law.

Practice Focus 

• Financial Services
• Insurance
• Business Law
• Homeowners Assoc. Law
• Insurance Litigation
• Class Action and Multidistrict Litigation
• Healthcare
• Healthcare Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Products Liability Litigation

Education

• University of Michigan, J.D., magna cum laude, M.P.P., 1979
• University of Illinois, M.A., 1970
• Duke University, B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1969

Admissions

• Florida, 1984
• U.S. Ct. of App., District of Columbia Circuit, 1979
• U.S. Ct. of App., Eleventh Circuit, 2005
• U.S. Dist. Ct., Middle Dist. of Florida, 2005
• U.S. Dist. Ct., N. Dist. of Florida, 2002
• U.S. Dist. Ct., S. Dist. of Florida, 1985
• U.S. Dist. Ct., W. Dist. of Michigan, 2007
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1985
• District of Columbia, 1979

Languages

• English

Representative Experience

• Representing a major publicly held health insurer in obtaining nationwide state regulatory approvals for acquisitions of privately held HMOs and medical provider networks and facilities, including multiple concurrent applications and evidentiary proceedings.
• Acting as coordinating and supervising counsel for projects and advice requiring guidance from lawyers in numerous U.S. and international jurisdictions; compiling multiple firms' advice for practical client use; and reviewing other firms' services and bills.
• Negotiating an innovative consent agreement with state insurance regulators to enable a long-term care insurer and reinsurer to restructure its reinsurance and trust arrangements with beneficial accounting treatment and flexibility for growth
• Representing major life insurers, property insurers, and other consumer service providers in investigations of their marketing and pricing practices conducted by Florida insurance regulators and the Florida Attorney General.
• Advising 30 large life insurers on a response to the federal equity receivership and liquidation of a major viatical provider and handling numerous related litigation matters.
• Guiding a U.S. life insurer in business practice changes over several years to comply with new laws in a foreign country where policies are held, many through a troubled broker.
• Representing a publicly held property and casualty (homeowners) insurer in two geographic market expansion acquisitions.
• Obtaining multiple state regulatory approvals for a publicly held HMO for its approximate US$410 million acquisition of a Medicare HMO and affiliates
• Negotiating state issuance of multiple required brokerage office licenses for an international financial institution without penalty despite the potential untimeliness of certain applications
• Obtaining numerous Florida and federal approvals for the acquisition of a controlling interest in a full-service hospital and related medical facilities
• Obtaining state and international regulatory approvals for an international health insurer to acquire US and non-US health insurers and affiliates
• Handling state procurement litigation for an international biosciences company and for an educational supplies and technology provider.
• Advising hospitals on forming self-insurance pools and captives.
• Obtaining dismissal with prejudice of a suit by a Florida insurance receiver seeking a multimillion-dollar recovery from a client under commercial reinsurance agreements
• Serving as outside general counsel for a startup Florida homeowners' insurer in its design, formation, licensing, financing, corporate documentation, transactions, and regulatory compliance and examinations from inception through sale to new investors after five years.
• Advising a Florida homeowners' association, including for comprehensive revisions of its governance documents.
• Advising a publicly held international pharmaceutical and medical supplies wholesaler on licensing and compliance under recently expanded Florida laws.
• Supervising documentation and implementation of settlements of thousands of nation-wide products liability mass tort claims against an international pharmaceutical manufacturer.
• Advising public companies dealing with the acquisition of financially troubled workers' compensation insurers and funds including reinsurance transactions, government investigations, civil suits, and sale and recapitalization of subsidiaries.
• Representing large medical practices in response to, and litigation arising from, failure and receivership of a medical malpractice self-insurance fund.