Florida Trial Attorney — Construction, Injury & Insurance

The foundation is the part no one checks.

David M. Greene represents homeowners, community associations, and injured people in Florida — construction defects, property-damage and insurance claims, insurance bad faith, serious injury and wrongful death, and the disputes that follow when something built or promised fails.

Practice areas

One firm for the problems that begin with property, construction, and insurance — and the injuries and disputes that follow. Construction-defect litigation remains the core of the practice.

Construction Defect

Stucco failures, water intrusion, structural defects, and building-code violations — for homeowners and associations against builders, developers, and contractors, from Chapter 558 pre-suit through trial.

Homeowners Insurance Claims

Denied, delayed, or underpaid residential property-damage claims — hurricane, water, roof, and related losses under your homeowners policy.

Insurance Bad Faith

When an insurer fails to handle a valid claim in good faith — unreasonable delay, underpayment, or wrongful denial.

Construction-Related Injury & Wrongful Death

Injuries and fatalities arising from construction sites and defective or unsafe construction — for injured workers, residents, and families who have lost a loved one.

Condominium & HOA Representation

Representation for condominium and homeowners' associations and their members — property-related claims, governance, and disputes.

Contracts & Disputes

Disputes arising from construction, real-estate, and business contracts — breach, enforcement, and the negotiation that resolves them.

How a construction-defect claim works

A builder who holds the permit for your home generally bears a non-delegable duty to supervise construction properly — including subcontractors' work. The steps below describe the Florida pathway.

  1. Chapter 558 Notice of Claim

    Florida law requires written notice and an opportunity for the builder to inspect and offer repairs before suit.

  2. Response and negotiation

    The builder has a statutory window to respond; many claims resolve or narrow at this stage.

  3. Suit or arbitration

    If pre-suit doesn't resolve it, the matter proceeds to litigation or, where the purchase agreement requires, binding arbitration.

  4. Discovery and expert evaluation

    These cases turn on engineering and cost-of-repair expert evidence, developed and tested throughout.

  5. Resolution

    Through negotiated settlement, arbitration award, or trial verdict.

Why this firm

Trial-tested

Real motion, deposition, and trial experience in construction-defect and related litigation.

One point of contact

One firm accountable to you from first call through resolution — you're never bounced between strangers or left managing your own case.

Insights

Plain-language legal education on the issues at the center of the practice — useful whether or not you ever call us. Written for homeowners facing a stucco, roof, or property-claim problem, for the inspectors and claims professionals who meet these problems in the field, and for attorneys who want the technical version.

For Homeowners · Construction Defect

Failing or cracking stucco: what Florida homeowners need to know

What stucco failure looks like, why the visible crack is usually a symptom of water in the wall, who may be responsible, and why finding out where you stand sooner protects your options.

For Homeowners · Property Insurance

Roof damage and a denied or underpaid claim: a homeowner's guide

How first-party roof claims work, the common reasons carriers push back, what a homeowner can do, and when claims handling can cross into a bad-faith issue.

Read all insights

Bring us the problem. We'll take it from there.

You get one place to turn and one team accountable to you. We have the staffing to handle most matters in-house, start to finish. When a case benefits from a specific specialty or local counsel in another part of the state, we bring in trusted colleagues and stay in the lead — so you're never managing a roster of lawyers yourself. You keep our judgment on your side; we keep you informed.

On some matters we may bring in or refer to co-counsel, chosen for a particular specialty or location. When we do, David remains your lead advocate and stays responsible for your representation, and we keep you informed. Any fee division is disclosed to you in writing, requires your consent, and never increases your total fee.

1 · You bring us the problem

Tell us who you are and what's going on, at a high level. One conversation — no runaround, no obligation.

2 · We assemble the right team

Most matters we handle directly. When a case calls for a specific specialty or counsel on the ground elsewhere, we build the right team around it — you don't have to.

3 · We stay your advocate

David leads and stays responsible for your representation through resolution, keeping you informed along the way. You trust our judgment; you don't manage the lawyers.

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About David M. Greene

David M. Greene is a trial attorney licensed in Florida (Florida Bar No. 89805), representing homeowners, community associations, and injured people. His practice centers on construction-defect litigation and extends to homeowners insurance and bad-faith claims, personal injury and construction-related wrongful death, condominium and HOA representation, and construction and business contract disputes.

David graduated with Honors from Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida, where he made the Dean's List and graduated in the top 15% of his class, and earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science (Pre-Law) and Psychology from the University of Central Florida. Since being admitted to the Florida Bar in 2011, he has focused his practice on construction-defect litigation, representing homeowners and community associations against builders, developers, and contractors in cases involving stucco and building-envelope failures, water intrusion, and structural defects.

He was counsel of record for the homeowners before Florida's Second District Court of Appeal in Hayslip v. U.S. Home Corp., 276 So. 3d 109 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019), a stucco construction-defect case that certified a question of first impression later answered by the Florida Supreme Court, 336 So. 3d 207 (Fla. 2022).

He also writes software. The document-analysis systems used to prepare cases at this firm were coded, deployed, and are maintained by David personally. Bulk analysis of client matters runs on that hardware; frontier models are used for strategy and drafting assistance. Writing code and building a case file draw on the same habit: check the assumption, check the date, check what happens when something doesn't match. More on how this practice is built →

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