Legal Losses Mount for Craig Deligdish, Omni Healthcare; Parrish Medical Center Prevails in Court

Space Coast, FL—Parrish Medical Center, an independent, public, community hospital based in Titusville, Florida has prevailed in multiple court and administrative rulings against Omni Healthcare, Inc., and its owner, Craig Deligdish. In another case, not involving Parrish Medical Center, Omni was said by a court to have taken legal action that “was clearly frivolous, clearly vexatious, or brought primarily for purposes of harassment.”

“Deligdish, and his company Omni Healthcare, have filed multiple lawsuits over the past 4-5 years against Parrish, as part of a campaign of retaliation after we discovered that Deligdish, whose company had been working with Parrish Medical Group, had caused an order for Covid-19 vaccines to be submitted under false pretenses to the State of Florida and after ending our dealings with him and his company. Neither Deligdish nor Omni has won a single case to date in their efforts to obtain money from Parrish Medical Center.” according to Parrish Spokesperson Natalie Sellers.

“Parrish Healthcare cannot allow itself to give in to parties who bring baseless lawsuits and filings with administrative agencies and who demand money to ‘settle’ for their own personal financial gain,” said Sellers.

The mounting legal losses for Deligdish, Omni Healthcare, according to court rulings, include:

1. Deligdish lost the breach of contract case he filed against Parrish. Deligdish and Omni sought over $5 million for an alleged breach of contract. The Final Judgment entered by the Court was for $0.00. In addition, a Brevard County jury found that Omni Healthcare, Inc. breached its fiduciary duties to Parrish’s physician practice and that Deligdish “aided and abetted” the breach.
2. Dismissal or gutting of his allegations of misconduct by Parrish by three separate tribunals: These are: the Department of Labor dismissed Deligdish’s case, an Administrative Law Judge gutting his case, and a Federal Judge’s throwing out almost all of his case, resulting in the parties agreeing to a Joint Stipulation with prejudice which bars the case from returning.
3. Insofar as Deligdish portending to be a “Whistle Blower”: Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration Office of Inspector General previously found Deligdish’s accusations “Unsubstantiated.”
4. As to Deligdish’s defamation case, the Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled that Parrish has “absolute immunity” from lawsuits for defamation for communications sent by its executives. According to the Opinion, “The law is clear that Hospital has absolute immunity from Doctor’s claims that are based on statements made by CEO, a public official acting within the scope of his duties.”
5. The Florida Attorney General and the United States Attorney General previously declined to intervene in Deligdish’s complaint in federal court accusing Parrish and Halifax of conspiracy.

Deligdish has been identified by others for his practice of filing multiple lawsuits. In Jan. 2025, when Deligdish’s lawsuit against MD Spine Solutions, was dismissed, MD Spine Solutions “announced the successful dismissal of a qui tam lawsuit filed by serial qui tam relator, (emphasis added) OMNI Health Care of Melbourne, FL, solely owned by Dr. Craig Deligdish.”

In that case, the court itself found that “the claim of the person bringing the action was clearly frivolous, clearly vexatious, or brought primarily for purposes of harassment. (emphasis added), and “Specifically, the court found that Omni Healthcare, Inc., through its owner Dr. Craig Deligdish, had engaged in ‘extremely troubling’ conduct by knowingly submitting medically unnecessary PCR UTI tests to substantiate its FCA lawsuit against the defendants” (emphasis added). (https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/blogs/fca-qui-notes/posts/2025/09/when-the-whistle-blows-back)

Additionally, the Court allowed Defendants’ motion for attorneys’ fees on the grounds that Relator [Omni] engaged in “vexatious” and “improper” conduct by knowingly causing the submission of false claims solely to substantiate a False Claims Act lawsuit and MD Spine has petitioned to seek attorneys’ fees of $1,746,456.35 and costs of $297,462.44, plus fees and costs incurred in connection with preparation of the fee petition.

In another legal loss involving a local Melbourne based Plumber Jeff Jackson d/b/a Dririte (“Plaintiff”), the judgement against Deligdish (“Defendant”) remains unsatisfied and the court granted permission for the “Plaintiff to proceed against Defendant’s assets.

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