Mark K. Delegal
Mark Delegal has been a shareholder with Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A., since 1989, and in this capacity, represents some of the largest insurance companies in the nation, as well as Florida’s top hospitals, physicians, other health care entities, local governments, and numerous Florida-domiciled businesses and business associations.
As a practitioner with a wealth of administrative, regulatory, legislative, and litigation experience, Mr. Delegal’s work has been consistently recognized by leading trade magazines, including: Chambers USA in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 (in which the Pennington Firm and Mr. Delegal received the top ranking for Insurance Regulatory work); Super Lawyers Magazine distinction of “Top Lawyer” in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009; recognized in Best Lawyers in America, 2006-present. Mr. Delegal has also recieved the PRR Preminent AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating an attorney can receive.
Mr. Delegal has represented clients before both the Florida Legislature and the Florida Cabinet for over 17 years; has litigated state and federal constitutional challenges to legislation and administrative agency action; structured business relationships among physicians, hospitals, and medical staff groups; brokered mergers and sales of insurance companies; and served as counsel to hospitals, physician groups, and HMO’s.
As the chief lobbyist for major property and casualty insurance companies, Mr. Delegal is uniquely involved in property, casualty, and automobile insurance issues. His insurance expertise has led him to represent clients before the Legislature on all of the significant property, casualty, and automobile insurance reforms over the last 17 years. His administrative law practice includes insurer formation, acquisition, redomestication, reorganization, market conduct examination, financial reporting, form and rate approval, and agency rule and policymaking. Mr. Delegal has legal experience resolving agency and broker issues, TPA’s, appointment and contracts, and licensing and compliance services for insurance companies and other insurance-related entities.
Mr. Delegal is also heavily involved in the Medicaid appropriations process for public and safety net hospitals and other health care entities statewide. In his representation of health care organizations and hospitals, Mr. Delegal has secured critical funding for the needy populations served by those entities, particularly as it relates to the state’s upper payment limit program, hospital disproportionate share program, intergovernmental transfers, and the Low-Income Pool Council.
