David Drew Hornbeak

David D. Hornbeak is a Houston litigation attorney who focuses his practice on complex commercial and civil litigation in state, federal and arbitration venues. Mr. Hornbeak represents clients in a wide variety of industry sectors, including healthcare, insurance and financial services. His experience involves all aspects of litigation, including trying cases and representing clients on appeal. Mr. Hornbeak also has extensive experience representing parties in high-stakes disputes involving business dissolutions and acquisitions.

In the financial services industry, Mr. Hornbeak defends credit services organizations, credit access businesses, banks, creditors, debt buyers and third-party collateral recovery companies in financial litigation involving alleged violations of city ordinances; Texas state laws such as the Certificate of Title Act, Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA), Texas Debt Collection Act (TCDA), and other provisions of the Texas Business and Commerce Code and Texas Finance Code; and federal laws, including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA).

In the healthcare industry, Mr. Hornbeak has represented health insurers, plan administrators, preferred provider organizations, health maintenance organizations, fiduciaries and claims administrators in all aspects of managed care litigation. Mr. Hornbeak is well versed in the complexity associated with recovering plan overpayments from providers due to fraudulent medical billing schemes and practices.

Mr. Hornbeak regularly handles multimillion-dollar commercial matters before and after litigation ensues. He has extensive experience in matters involving alleged violations of trade-secret statutes (state and federal), alleged violations of non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, commercial fraud and maritime contractual disputes.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Hornbeak was a litigator with a Texas-based law firm in its Houston-area office. While there, he represented a diverse group of clients on matters pertaining to business disputes, insurance coverage, subrogation and construction defect.

During law school, Mr. Hornbeak served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Terry Jennings of Texas First District Court of Appeals. He also worked as a pro bono mediator throughout the Houston area and served as a coach on his law school's International Baseball Arbitration Competition team, a moot court-type competition based on Major League Baseball salary arbitration proceedings.