Personal Injury & Negligent Security Investigations in Coconut Grove, FL
The other side says it never happened. We find the witnesses, the video, and the records that say it did.
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The Investigator Miami Injury Firms Call When Liability Is Denied
An insurance adjuster’s first move on a Grove claim is to deny fault and wait for your evidence to go stale. Surveillance cameras overwrite in 30 days. Witnesses move. The wet floor gets a mat and the broken stair gets a railing. Wasser Investigations has worked personal injury cases for South Florida attorneys since 1985, and the value we bring is speed on the front end.
Travis Wasser takes the call himself. Within days he has photographed the scene, pulled the incident reports, sent preservation demands for camera footage, and knocked on the doors that matter. Eric Mausner, a Miami personal injury lawyer, put it plainly: he’s great at getting video, witnesses, affidavits, and working with police.
Where Injuries Happen in Coconut Grove
The Grove packs a lot of liability into a few square miles. CocoWalk and the restaurants along Grand Avenue and Commodore Plaza run late and crowded. Dinner Key Marina has slippery docks, boat ramps, and a busy parking lot. The bars on Main Highway empty onto narrow sidewalks at 2 a.m. Condominiums and apartment buildings along South Bayshore Drive and in West Grove have garages, gates, and lobbies that are supposed to be secured and often are not.
We handle slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall claims at retail and restaurant properties, injuries on boats and docks, pedestrian and bicycle collisions on Bayshore and Main Highway, and negligent security cases where an assault, shooting, or robbery happened on a property that skipped the lighting, the guard, or the working gate.
Attorneys First. Injured People Who Are Still Choosing a Lawyer, Too.
Your Boots on the Ground in Miami-Dade
You send us the intake. We send back a scene file, a witness list with signed statements, and a preservation letter log, ready to attach to the demand. When the case goes to the Dade County Courthouse on Flagler, we testify.
You Were Hurt and Nobody Is Taking Responsibility
If you have not hired an attorney yet, call us 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
We photograph and measure the hazard before it gets fixed. Lighting levels at night, missing signage, the height of a broken step, the gap in a fence. We return at the same hour the injury happened so the photos show the conditions your client faced.
Witness location and statements
Bystanders, employees, neighbors, the valet who saw the fall. We find them, interview them, and take signed, dated statements before memories fade or the property owner gets to them first.
Video preservation
We identify every camera that could have caught the incident, including neighboring businesses and city cameras, and get preservation demands out fast. In the Grove, a lot of the useful footage belongs to the business next door.
Negligent security history
Prior police calls to the property, prior incidents, code violations, and the security the owner promised versus what was actually there. We pull the CAD reports and build the timeline that shows the property knew and did nothing.
Defendant and driver background
Prior claims, prior crashes, corporate ownership behind the LLC, and insurance coverage. If a bar overserved your client’s attacker, we find that too.
The Case File
- Scene photographs and video with dates, times, and measurements
- Signed witness statements and contact information
- Copies of every preservation demand we sent, with delivery confirmation
- Incident reports, CAD logs, and code enforcement 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. The Evidence Gives You Weeks.
Since the 2023 tort reform, most Florida negligence claims carry a two-year statute of limitations. Camera systems at Grove businesses rarely keep footage past a month. The gap between those two numbers is where cases get lost. 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 property owner says there is no video. Is that the end of it?
Usually not. The owner’s camera may have been off, but the restaurant next door, the parking garage across the street, or a ride-share driver’s dash cam may have caught it. We canvass the whole block.
What counts as negligent security in Florida?
A property owner who knew or should have known that crime was foreseeable and failed to take reasonable steps, such as lighting, working locks, or a guard. We prove the 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, ride-share records, nearby employees, and old-fashioned door knocking, we locate people who never gave a name at the scene.
Do you work directly with injured people or only with law firms?
Both. Most of our personal injury work comes through attorneys, but if you were hurt in the Grove and have not hired counsel yet, call. The evidence clock is running either way.
How fast can you get to a scene?
Our office is on Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables, about ten minutes from anywhere in Coconut Grove. Same-day scene work is normal.
Liability Denied? We Build the Case.
Send us the intake or call Travis directly. We will tell you what evidence is still alive and what it will take to get it.
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