Lesley Waite as co-personal representative de son tort of the Estate of Hannah L Waite v Shaikh, Rabia, Medical Doctor

On February 14, 2024, the Florida jury delivered a $30,007,205 verdict in favor of the Plaintiffs in damages in the instant medical malpractice lawsuit.

Case Background

On November 13, 2017, Andrew and Lesley Waite filed a case for medical malpractice and negligence before the Florida, Hillsborough, 13th Judicial Circuit Court. Judge Claudia R. Isom presided over this case. [Case number: 17-CA-010281]

Cause

On Dec. 18, 2014, Hannah Waite, 23, a nursing student, was a patient under the care and supervision of Dr. Rabia Shaikh and Dr. Andrew Daley, employees of Advanced Care Hospitalists PL, at Kindred South, a long-term acute care facility in Tampa. Dr. Shaikh, who had ownership in the hospitalist group, was the more experienced of the two doctors. Waite had transferred to Kindred on December 11 after an extended stay at Tampa General Hospital, seeking to improve her physical condition and nutritional status. She had been prescribed a narcotic for chronic pain related to her pre-existing complex regional pain syndrome. On December 18, Waite started to experience nausea and vomiting. The hospitalists