Gary Timin focuses his practice on insurance, healthcare, governmental and regulatory, and corporate and transactional matters. In addition, he handles related commercial and regulatory litigation. His clients are most often, but far from exclusively, in the insurance, financial services, healthcare and other highly regulated industries.

For these clients, Gary counsels on business formations, licensing, sales, mergers and acquisitions, a wide variety of business contracts and transactions, and government procurement matters, as well as state and federal regulatory compliance, applications and approvals. As a trial lawyer, he handles insurance, corporate, regulatory and certain securities matters and has also dealt 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.

Gary is listed in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and received a five-star rating on the Association of Corporate Counsel Value Index for 2009. He received an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating for ability and ethics.

Gary is a member of The Florida Bar, Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law, and Section of Administrative Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association and its Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law and Section of Tort and Insurance Practice.

Representative Experience

• Representing major life insurers, property insurers and other consumer services providers in investigations of their marketing and pricing practices conducted by Florida insurance regulators and the Florida Attorney General.
• Advising 30 life insurers on a response to the federal equity receivership and liquidation of a major viatical provider and handling numerous related litigation matters.
• Obtaining multiple state regulatory approvals for a publicly held HMO for its approximately US$410 million acquisition of a Medicare HMO and affiliates.
• Obtaining numerous Florida and federal approvals for the acquisition of a controlling interest in a full service hospital and related facilities.
• Obtaining state and foreign regulatory approvals for an international health insurer to acquire US and non-US health insurers and their affiliates.
• Handling state procurement litigation for an international biosciences company.
• Advising hospitals on the formation of 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 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 publicly held international pharmaceutical and medical supplies wholesaler on licensing and compliance under recently expanded Florida laws.
• Supervising the documentation and implementation of settlements of numerous products liability 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.