Personal Injury & Negligent Security Investigations in Aventura, FL
The mall says the floor was dry. The condo association says the elevator was inspected. The valet company says the car was fine when it came in. We find the witnesses, the video, and the records that say otherwise.
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The Investigator Miami Injury Firms Send to Aventura
Aventura produces injury claims from a few very busy places. Aventura Mall draws tens of millions of visitors a year through parking garages, escalators, and polished floors. Dozens of condo towers with pools, gyms, elevators, and valet operations. Biscayne Boulevard and the William Lehman Causeway. An older resident population that falls harder and recovers slower. Hotels and restaurants across the Sunny Isles line.
When a claim comes out of any of that, the defense’s first move is to deny liability and wait for the evidence to expire. Mall and tower cameras overwrite in days. Valet tickets disappear. The wet floor gets a mat. Wasser Investigations has worked personal injury cases for South Florida attorneys since 1985, and the value is speed on the front end. Travis Wasser takes the call, and within days he has photographed the scene, pulled the reports, sent preservation demands, and talked to the people who saw it.
Where Injuries Happen in Aventura
Slip, trip, and fall claims at Aventura Mall, its garages, and the retail along Biscayne Boulevard. Condo common-area injuries: pool decks, elevators, gyms, lobbies, and balconies. Garage and valet incidents, including pedestrians struck on ramps. Pedestrian and vehicle crashes on Biscayne, Country Club Drive, and the causeway. Falls and neglect involving elderly residents in towers and care facilities. Negligent security cases in towers, garages, and hotels where an assault, robbery, or break-in happened on a property that promised a guard and access control and delivered neither.
Attorneys First. Injured People Who Are Still Choosing a Lawyer, Too.
Your Boots on the Ground in Northeast Miami-Dade
You send the intake. We send back a scene file, a witness list with signed statements, a preservation letter log, and ownership records on the defendant, ready for the demand. When the case goes to the Dade County Courthouse downtown, we testify.
Someone Was Hurt and Nobody Is Taking Responsibility
If you or a parent were hurt and you have not hired an attorney yet, call anyway. We will tell you what evidence is at risk right now and, if it helps, refer you to injury lawyers we have worked with for years.
The Work Behind a Winning Demand Package
Scene documentation
Photographs, measurements, and video of the hazard before it gets fixed. We return at the same hour the injury happened so the lighting and crowds match what your client faced.
Witness location and statements
Doormen, valets, mall employees, other residents, the cleaning contractor who has since been let go. We find them, interview them, and take signed, dated statements before memories fade or the property’s insurer gets to them. Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian-speaking witnesses are interviewed with an interpreter when they prefer it.
Video preservation
Mall and tenant cameras, tower lobbies, garages, elevators, and neighbors’ cameras. We identify every source and get preservation demands out fast. In Aventura, the useful footage is often on a camera the defendant does not control.
Ownership and management chain
The association, the management company, the garage operator, the valet contractor, the security vendor, the elevator maintenance company. Each is a potential defendant, and each has its own insurance.
Negligent security history
Prior police calls, prior incidents, and the security the building promised versus what was there. We pull Aventura PD and Miami-Dade CAD reports and build the timeline that shows the property knew.
Defendant background
Prior claims, prior suits, corporate ownership, and coverage.
The Case File
- Scene photographs and video with dates, times, and measurements
- Signed witness statements and contact information
- Copies of every preservation demand, with delivery confirmation
- Incident reports, CAD logs, code enforcement, and association records
- A written investigator report your paralegal can drop into the demand
- Deposition and trial testimony from the investigator who did the work
Florida Gave You Two Years. A Lobby Camera Gives You a Week.
Since the 2023 tort reform, most Florida negligence claims carry a two-year statute of limitations. Aventura towers and retail commonly keep video for seven to thirty days. Marc Rapaport, a partner at Cole, Scott & Kissane, has said our surveillance helped his firm reach settlements on multiple personal injury matters. The common thread was getting there first.
Questions From Attorneys and Injured Clients
The building says it has no video of the fall.
Most Aventura towers have dozens of cameras. We send the preservation demand, identify the security vendor, and document the response. A missing recording after a demand is a spoliation argument.
My mother fell in her condo's lobby and the association is blaming her.
We photograph the floor, the lighting, and the mats, interview staff and residents, pull the association’s maintenance and incident records, and find out how many people fell there before her.
What counts as negligent security in Florida?
A property owner who knew or should have known crime was foreseeable and failed to take reasonable steps. We prove foreseeability with prior police calls and the failure with photographs and witness statements.
Can you find a witness who left before police arrived?
Often, yes. Between camera footage, rideshare records, building staff, and door knocking, we locate people who never gave a name.
How fast can you get to a scene?
Same day. Our office on Ponce de Leon Boulevard is about thirty minutes from Aventura.
Liability Denied? We Build the Case.
Send the intake or call Travis directly. We will tell you what evidence is still alive and what it takes to get it.
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