Leesfield & Partners attorneys recently secured a confidential settlement for a woman and her 5-year-old son after a car drove into the Florida discount store where they waited at the checkout line. While the mother and son were waiting with other customers to pay for their items, a car came…
One teen charged, another killed after the two were playing with a loaded gun at an apartment in Broward County, officials say. The incident happened around 2:30 p.m. Monday. The teen who was hit was identified by police in reporting by The Miami Herald as 16-year-old Christopher Granados. He was…
Apple juice sold under numerous brands at stores all over the country, including Walmart, Aldi, BJ’s and others, is under FDA recalls over concerns of potentially harmful levels of arsenic, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The recall comes after an FDA report that included almost 10,000 cases…
A man died after he lost control of his golf cart in Fort Myers and crashed into a propane truck Saturday, injuring his passenger and the driver of the truck, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. The crash happened around 11 a.m. Saturday on Winkler Road. Officials with Florida…
Justin B. Shapiro, a Partner and Trial Lawyer with Leesfield & Partners, secured a $1,824,327 record settlement for a client whose fall left his pelvic bone so shattered doctors said the fragments resembled “bread crumbs.” In an article published in the Daily Business Review, Mr. Shapiro told reporters that within…
A woman died after she and another woman lost control of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) resulting in them plunging into a nearby canal, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. Police told the newspaper that the crash happened around 1 p.m. Thursday near Southwest 112th Street and 157th Avenue. Both…
A body was found in a closet at the same Miami nursing home from where a 71-year-old man was reported missing, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. Police were called out to the North Dade Nursing and Rehabilitation Center around 10:30 a.m. Monday morning. The man who had been…
Do you have to stop for a school bus in Florida? In the first two weeks of school, approximately 11,500 Miami-Dade County drivers were cited after footage captured from 950 school district buses caught them disobeying traffic laws. The cameras were authorized last year to add extra protections for students…
An elementary school employee was taken to the hospital for evaluation Monday morning after a propane gas leak in the school’s cafeteria, officials say. Emergency responders were called out to Oriole Elementary, 3081 NW 39th St. in Lauderdale Lakes, around 9 a.m., according to reporting from The Miami Herald. The…
An entire school cafeteria was evacuated from a Broward County High School Friday morning for a possible carbon monoxide leak, officials said. Five people were hospitalized and said they experienced symptoms of lightheadedness, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. None of the people who were taken to the hospital…