Daniel Nicholas, Esq.

Daniel Andrew Nicholas is a Partner in the firm's Tampa office and has 30 years of multi-disciplinary litigation experience in the areas of corporate, business, receivership, franchise, employment, contract, bankruptcy, securities, construction, and health care. He has obtained verdicts in excess of $100 million in state and federal trials for the nation’s largest banks, developers, and health care clients. His practice is highly concentrated in the health care industry. He has substantial regulatory experience that includes Federal Anti-Kickback, Stark, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as the operational and compliance issues facing the ever changing health care industry. Mr. Nicholas speaks regularly throughout the United States in an array of litigation and healthcare issues, and appeared on numerous television and radio shows on matters of professional malpractice and consumer protection.

Newsroom

News

•Federal Court Sides with Defendant in Pro Se Plaintiff’s Case in Orange County, FL
Recent Successful Trial, 12.12.2025

Publications

•“Recent Amendments to Federal False Claims Act”, Trial Practice Quarterly, 2013
•“Rehabilitation and Liquidation Summary under Florida Statutes”, Trial Practice Quarterly, 2012
•“FDIC Takeovers and Lender Liability”, First Coast Business Journal, 1992

REPORTED CASES:

•Suk Kim v Jung Chang, 249 So. 3d 1300 (Fla. 2d DCA 2018)
•Anderson v. Wolf, 998 So. 2d 1172 (Fla. 5th DCA 2008)
•LaMarca v. Janson, 2014 U.S. Dist. Lexis 8427 (M.D. Tampa 2014)
•Brown v. Estate of Stuckey, 710 So. 2d 679 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998)
•Hyman v. City of Gastonia, 466 F. 3d 284 (4th Cir. 2006)