Tim P. Ribelin

Healthcare Matters

• Successfully guided healthcare professionals through administrative proceedings in front of licensing boards and agencies regarding licensure issues up to and including criminal allegations.
• Routinely represented both payors and payees in disputes regarding both in- and out-of-network billing disputes.
• Represented clients in investigations and litigation involving allegations of healthcare fraud.
• Successfully obtained a defense award for a physician practice in arbitration by defending the client against the practice's former employees alleging fraud, breach of contract, and other partnership claims.
• Routinely represent clients in payor-provider disputes involving payment disputes over health insurance claims, breach of contract, violations of the Texas Insurance Code, and the Texas Prompt Payment Act.
• Representing clients in a wrongful death lawsuits involving health insurance and employment claims.
• Representing a franchisor client in a contractual/tort lawsuit against a franchisee for contract and tort claims.

Financial Matters

• Successfully represented financial institutions in all phases of post-judgment collection.
• Represented banking client in contested hearing in trial court involving post-judgment collection efforts. After judgment debtor appealed trial court's ruling, successfully defended trial court's ruling in court of appeals.
• Significantly defended financial client in breach of contract suit on sworn account and identifying further recovery strategies against third party.
• Assisted banking client in recovering previously uncollectible judgment of $5 million in unpaid debt using procedural device strategies.
• Assisted financial client in locating and collecting over $500,000 in post-judgment unpaid debt.
• Represented financial client in breach of contract suit with approximately $18 million in damages.
• Researched and drafted appeal briefs in Texas State Courts of Appeals and in Fifth Circuit and Ninth Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals.
• Represented bank client in a lawsuit against an entity and personal guarantors for breach of contract and breach of their personal guaranty agreements.
• Represented equipment leasing client in lawsuits against its former customers and the customers' personal guarantors for breaches of contract and the personal guaranty agreements.

Other Experience

• Secured mandatory temporary restraining order and temporary injunction for tech startup client in Austin when outside developer cut off client's access to its proprietary software after dispute over payment terms and scope of work. Further, legal team obtained client's right to access and possess software, source code and background information for final development.