Practice areas

Auto collisions, premises falls, product failures and catastrophic harm across South Dade.

The practice has handled personal injury matters out of Homestead since 1983 — highway and agricultural-corridor collisions on US-1 and Krome Avenue, slip and fall claims against property owners and their carriers, defective product injuries, and dog bite liability under Florida's strict liability statute. Work begins with preserving the scene, the vehicle or the product, obtaining the incident and traffic homicide reports, and putting every carrier on written notice before evidence is repaired away.

• Automobile or truck collision
• Motorcycle or bicycle collision
• Slip, trip and fall
• Product liability
• Dog bite or animal attack
• Catastrophic injury

Actions brought by the personal representative for the estate and the surviving family.

Florida's Wrongful Death Act requires the action to be brought by the personal representative of the estate on behalf of the estate and all identified survivors. That means an estate must usually be opened before suit, survivors must be identified and their separate claims pleaded, and the two-year limitation period runs from the date of death rather than from the date of the incident. The firm coordinates the probate step alongside the liability investigation so neither one delays the other.

• Fatal traffic collision
• Fatal workplace incident
• Fatal maritime incident
• Estate and survivor representation

First-party property claims, coverage disputes, underpayment and delay, public adjuster coordination.

First-party work is a large part of a Homestead practice: hurricane and windstorm damage, roof and water losses, denial and underpayment of claims, and disputes over scope between the insured's estimate and the carrier's. The firm works alongside public adjusters, reviews the policy's notice, proof of loss and appraisal provisions before deadlines lapse, and litigates coverage where the carrier will not move.

• Hurricane or windstorm damage
• Water or roof loss
• Denied or underpaid claim
• Delay or bad faith conduct
• Coverage dispute
• Public adjuster referral

Cruise passenger and crew claims arising out of South Florida ports.

Cruise line tickets are contracts. They routinely shorten the time to give written notice to six months and the time to file suit to one year, and they force the case into a single named federal court regardless of where the passenger lives. Crew claims run on different rules again — Jones Act negligence, unseaworthiness, and maintenance and cure. The first thing the firm reads is the ticket contract, because the deadlines in it move faster than the injury does.

• Cruise passenger injury
• Crew member injury (Jones Act)
• Maintenance and cure
• Unseaworthiness
• Recreational boating collision
• Dock or shoreside injury

Employment discrimination and state and federal compensation claims.

Employment matters carry filing windows measured in months, not years: an administrative charge usually comes before a lawsuit, and the right-to-sue letter starts a short clock of its own. The firm handles discrimination and retaliation claims and state and federal compensation matters, and will say plainly at the first meeting whether a deadline has already passed.

• Discrimination
• Retaliation or wrongful discharge
• Unpaid wages or overtime
• Workers' compensation
• Federal compensation claim

Professional malpractice claims for individuals and families.

Professional malpractice matters turn on the standard of care, and Florida requires a pre-suit investigation supported by a qualified expert before certain claims may be filed at all. Records are gathered and reviewed first; the firm will decline a matter rather than file one that the pre-suit screening does not support.

• Medical malpractice
• Professional negligence
• Records review only