Robert M. Travisano

Robert Travisano is a trusted litigator whose practice is concentrated in complex contractual disputes, health care litigation, and business divorce matters. A Principal at Bressler, Amery & Ross, Robert is valued for his strategic approach, practical judgment, and ability to navigate high stakes disputes efficiently and effectively. When resolution cannot be achieved through negotiation, Robert is a seasoned courtroom advocate whose litigation and trial experience provide a significant advantage to his clients.

Robert has extensive experience representing companies and individuals across a broad range of industries in complicated contractual disputes, business tort litigation, consumer and common law fraud matters, and limited liability company, partnership, and shareholder conflicts. He regularly litigates matters involving oppressed minority shareholders, and complex business separations, as well as restrictive covenants. In addition, Robert has represented foreign and domestic insurers in coverage disputes involving fidelity, general liability, directors and officers, and property and casualty policies, and healthcare providers in disputes with payors.

Robert is known for his ability to manage complex and multifaceted litigation, and leverage the equitable jurisdiction of courts to benefit his clients’ causes. He has represented a group of related health care companies in a high-profile dispute against a regional hospital system involving alleged breaches of a master services agreement. He has secured injunctive relief in favor of several clients, preventing the dissipation of assets pending the final adjudication of the disputes.  Also, he recently represented a regional health plan in a fraud action against a data analytics vendor arising from the alleged improper submission of claims to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Robert’s litigation experience spans trials, arbitrations, and appellate matters. He has served as second chair in a bench trial involving a deed restriction dispute, a jury trial defending an insurer against allegations of bad faith, and an arbitration concerning an earn-out dispute following a corporate acquisition. Also, he has argued appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, and the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division.

In addition to his litigation practice, Robert acts as outside general counsel to a variety of companies, counseling them on general business strategies, counter-party management, and risk avoidance/mitigation.

Robert has authored and coauthored articles on a variety of legal topics. While attending law school, he served as Executive Notes and Comments Editor of the St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary and coauthored the Note, “What Is Past Is Prologue: Why Congress Should Reject Current Financial Reform Bills and Breathe New Life into Glass-Steagall,” published in 13 St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary 373 (Winter 1998). Robert also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph A. Falcone, Assignment Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County.

Experience

• US. ex rel. Carroll v. Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center, 21-18104, 2023 WL 8664583 (D.N.J. 2023) (dismissal of False Claims Act complaint against hospital)
• MVP Health Plan Inc. v. Maloney, et al., Index No. 2021-1300 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., Schenectady County, Aug. 16, 2022) (dismissing counterclaims brought by provider against health plan on the grounds that, among other things, plan had no legal duty to provide patient information to physician who was not a participating provider of the plan)  

• In re Lyman Good Dietary Supplements Litig., 17-cv-8047 (S.D.N.Y. 2020) (secured summary judgment on behalf of dietary supplements seller and manufacturer in lawsuit brought by UFC fighter alleging mislabeling and adulteration)

• Ricketti v. Barry, et al., 13-6804 (D.N.J. 2015) (On remand, district court dismissed complaint asserting breach of contract and tortious interference claims brought against a wound care center administrator and its director by the head of a podiatric medical group)
• Philp v. Ross University School of Medicine, 14-CV-556 (D.N.J. 2014) (court dismissed with prejudice a complaint alleging civil rights violations, breach of contract, and tort claims brought against a medical school and its administrators and faculty by an expelled student, who challenged the school’s grievance committee procedures and assailed his treatment while a student)
• Nielsen, Co. (US), LLC v. Hudson River Group, Inc., 2014 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3168 (N.Y. 2d Dept. May 7, 2014) (in reversing summary judgment against client, court held that parties' course of conduct over a six-year period raised issues of fact as to plaintiff's implied waiver of its contractual audit right)
• Burkes v. New York State Dental Association, 2013 WL 3784143 (S.D.N.Y. July 18, 2013) (dismissing complaint with prejudice, court sustained a private professional organization's internal disciplinary process applied in the suspension of dentist stemming from his guilty plea to a prescription drug charge and rejected claims for breach of fiduciary duty, selective enforcement, negligence, denial of due process, and tortious interference)
• Latarola v. Efrosman, 2008 WL 3412267 (N.J. App. Div. Aug. 14, 2008) (affirming trial court’s holding that bank owed no duty to shareholders of corporate account holder)
• Endico v. Fonte, 485 F.Supp.2d 411 (S.D.N.Y. 2007) (member interests in a limited liability company that owned apartment building did not qualify as securities)

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