At 830 Brickell Plaza, home of the future second tallest building in Miami (57 floors and 724 feet tall), a horrific incident occurred at the construction site. Reports relay that six construction workers were injured when a crane carrying a heavy load of rebar malfunctioned and crash to the ground.…
Dear Friends: Our firm, concentrating on personal injury and wrongful death cases over the past 46 years, has always been six lawyers or less. The flexibility smaller firms enjoy has never been more important. The COVID crisis requires thinking and re-thinking our business plans. Responding to the special development needs…
At the beginning of 2020, a new moped-sharing company was authorized to launch in Miami. South Florida became the latest theater of operation for the Brooklyn-based company, Revel, which is already operational in five States across the country. The app-based business that launched about a year ago is in full…
On April 5th, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a warning to consumers about the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play after another infant death, the tenth tragedy in less than 4 years. The statement warns that infants aged 3 months or older, who are able to roll over while seated…
The E-bike Epidemic. Like disease bearing mosquitos, E-bikes have taken over the safety and tranquility of the American modern city. They are everywhere, left randomly on streets, sidewalks and alleys, littering our cityscape with unsightly and unusual dangers. If you haven’t noticed, greed and stupidity have invaded your everyday life,…
After the horrific murder of Miami-resident, Carla Stefaniak, for which the security guard of the Airbnb where she was staying was arrested, it seems clear that Airbnb continues to fail its self-declared standard: “Your safety is our priority” Assaults at Airbnb’s are unfortunately not uncommon. So much so, that a…
In the Spring of 2018, Leesfield & Partners launched a new initiative to raise awareness of the dangers of furniture tipping-over on toddlers and young children. Following the settlement of a horrific wrongful death case against a furniture manufacturer on behalf of a mother who lost her child in a…
On October 15, 2018, the Florida Supreme Court issued its Opinion in DeLisle v. Crane Co., and held that the Florida Legislature exceeded its authority when it adopted Daubert by codifying it into Florida Law under chapter 2013-107, Section 1: “With our decision today, we reaffirm that Frye, not Daubert,…
It has now been two months since the horrific death of 9-month old Zachary Jackson. In the afternoon of July 17, 2018, Zachary was found unresponsive inside the home of Joseph and Debbie Dodd. Earlier that day, Zachary’s mom had dropped her infant at the Dodd Family Daycare, in Clermont,…
Experienced personal injury lawyers know all too well that dangerous conditions exist all around us as soon as we leave our home. Over the past four decades, Leesfield & Partners’s trial attorneys have seen unsuspecting members of the public suffer horrific injuries as a result of just about every conceivable…