DANIEL B REINFELD, PA
Hollywood Personal Injury & Car Accident Attorneys
Serving Clients Throughout South Florida Since 1999
Hollywood, FL Pedestrian Accident Lawyer
Over 25 Years of Experience • Former Insurance Defense Attorney
Jury Trial-Tested • Millions Recovered for Clients
Daniel B Reinfeld, PA is a Hollywood, Florida personal injury law firm representing pedestrians struck by cars, trucks, rideshare vehicles, and other motor vehicles throughout South Florida. As an experienced pedestrian accident lawyer, Daniel Reinfeld handles crosswalk accidents, hit-and-run pedestrian accidents, uninsured-motorist claims, catastrophic injuries, cases involving injured children, and pedestrian wrongful death claims. Daniel B Reinfeld, PA was recognized by TopVerdict for obtaining one of Florida’s Top 10 Pedestrian Accident Verdicts of 2024 after securing a $1.6 million unanimous jury verdict for an injured pedestrian.
Florida Pedestrian Accident Lawyer | $1.6M Pedestrian Verdict
Pedestrian accident claims often involve driver negligence, comparative fault, insurance coverage, medical causation, permanent injury, and significant damages. When injuries are severe, insurance companies may deny responsibility, minimize medical evidence, or blame the injured pedestrian.
Former Insurance Defense Attorney with Proven Trial Experience
Daniel B Reinfeld, PA brings more than 25 years of legal experience and firsthand knowledge of how insurers investigate pedestrian accident claims, dispute liability, challenge medical evidence, and blame injured pedestrians. Dan obtained a $1.6 million jury verdict following a week-long pedestrian accident trial, recognized by TopVerdict as one of Florida’s Top 10 pedestrian accident verdicts of 2024. Dan personally handles each pedestrian accident case, investigating the collision, preserving evidence, and identifying every liable party and available insurance policy. He prepares each case for settlement or trial by developing the evidence needed to prove driver negligence, medical causation, permanent injury, and the full extent of the damages—including medical expenses, lost income, pain and suffering, disability, loss of independence, and diminished quality of life.
Rideshare Accidents
Uber, Lyft, Rideshare & Delivery App drivers, insurance disputes
The Human Impact of a Pedestrian Accident
The human body is fragile. Injuries can have lasting effects that can haunt you for a lifetime. Pedestrians have nothing to shield them from the force of a collision—no vehicle frame, airbags, or seat belts. Even at neighborhood speeds, an impact can cause broken bones, traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, permanent disability, or death.
Those fortunate enough to survive may require surgery, extensive rehabilitation, and significant time away from work. The physical harm may be immediate. The drain on your financial and emotional resources, crippling. The toll on your family life and daily activities profound and lasting.
Fatal pedestrian accidents are among the most difficult cases our firm handles. No financial recovery can replace the loss of a loved one. Families must endure not only overwhelming grief, but also the loss of companionship, guidance, financial support, and a shared future. A wrongful death claim cannot undo the tragedy. It can, however, hold the responsible parties accountable, ease the financial burden, and help protect the family left behind.
Whether a family is confronting a life-changing injury or grieving a death, urgent questions about fault, insurance coverage, medical and household expenses, lost income, and financial recovery soon follow. Prompt legal representation can help preserve the evidence, identify all responsible parties, and protect the family’s rights during an extraordinarily difficult time.
Daniel B Reinfeld, PA represents injured pedestrians and grieving families throughout South Florida and has trial experience in Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach, and Monroe Counties. We investigate how the collision occurred, identify every available source of insurance and responsibility, document the full effect of the injury or loss, and prepare the case for trial when an insurer will not offer a fair resolution.
Pedestrian Accidents on Hollywood Roads and Crossings
Hollywood pedestrian accidents frequently occur where heavy traffic intersects with crosswalks, businesses, neighborhoods, schools, hotels, and beach access. High-risk areas include Young Circle and Hollywood Boulevard, Federal Highway, Sheridan Street, Stirling Road, A1A, and the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk corridor. These cases may involve drivers who fail to yield, make unsafe turns, speed, drive distracted, or overlook pedestrians at intersections, parking entrances, and marked or unmarked crosswalks.
Hollywood’s pedestrian-safety concerns reflect a serious statewide problem. Florida pedestrian accident statistics recorded 10,306 pedestrian crashes in 2023, resulting in 791 pedestrian fatalities, 1,408 incapacitating injuries, and 6,707 other pedestrian injuries, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV). Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), 678 pedestrians were killed and 1,343 pedestrians suffered serious injuries on Florida roads in 2024. Pedestrians accounted for approximately 22% of all Florida traffic fatalities that year—meaning that roughly one out of every five people killed in a Florida traffic crash was a pedestrian.
Frequently Asked Questions
What should I do immediately after being hit by a vehicle?
The short answer: Get medical care promptly, preserve evidence before it disappears, identify all potentially responsible parties and insurance policies, and do not assume the police report or the first insurance decision will determine the claim.
Call 911 and obtain medical care. If you can do so safely, photograph the vehicle, roadway, crosswalk, traffic signals, lighting, skid marks, debris, nearby cameras, and visible injuries. Obtain the driver's insurance information and the names and contact information of witnesses.
Do not delay treatment merely because you hope the pain will improve. Florida PIP benefits generally require initial services and care within 14 days after the motor-vehicle crash. Prompt treatment also creates a contemporaneous medical record connecting the injuries to the collision.
Avoid giving a recorded statement or signing a broad medical authorization for the opposing insurer before understanding the request. Preserve shoes, clothing, damaged personal property, photographs, messages, work-loss records, and every insurance letter.
Pedestrian Accidents on Hollywood Roads and Crossings
Hollywood pedestrian accidents frequently occur where heavy traffic intersects with crosswalks, businesses, neighborhoods, schools, hotels, and beach access. High-risk areas include Young Circle and Hollywood Boulevard, Federal Highway, Sheridan Street, Stirling Road, A1A, and the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk corridor. These cases may involve drivers who fail to yield, make unsafe turns, speed, drive distracted, or overlook pedestrians at intersections, parking entrances, and marked or unmarked crosswalks.
Hollywood’s pedestrian-safety concerns reflect a serious statewide problem. Florida pedestrian accident statistics recorded 10,306 pedestrian crashes in 2023, resulting in 791 pedestrian fatalities, 1,408 incapacitating injuries, and 6,707 other pedestrian injuries, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV). Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), 678 pedestrians were killed and 1,343 pedestrians suffered serious injuries on Florida roads in 2024. Pedestrians accounted for approximately 22% of all Florida traffic fatalities that year—meaning that roughly one out of every five people killed in a Florida traffic crash was a pedestrian.
Florida Pedestrian Accident Knowledge Center
Every pedestrian accident presents different legal, medical, and insurance questions. The Florida Pedestrian Accident Knowledge Center provides focused information about right-of-way laws, comparative fault, PIP and uninsured-motorist coverage, hit-and-run accidents, serious injuries, wrongful death, compensation, settlement, and trial.
Selected Topics:
Who pays my medical bills if I was walking rather than driving?
A pedestrian may still qualify for Florida Personal Injury Protection benefits. The order of coverage can depend on whether the pedestrian owns an insured vehicle, lives with a relative who has PIP coverage, or must seek coverage connected to the vehicle that struck the pedestrian. PIP may pay part of qualifying medical expenses and lost income, but deductibles, exclusions, policy limits, and the emergency-medical-condition rules can affect the amount available. PIP is only one possible layer. A serious case may also involve the driver's bodily-injury coverage, uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage, health insurance, medical-payment coverage, or coverage held by an employer, commercial vehicle owner, property owner, or another responsible party. One of the firm's first tasks is to map the available coverage rather than treating the driver's first disclosed policy as the entire case.
How much is a pedestrian accident case worth?
No responsible lawyer can value a serious pedestrian case from the accident description alone. Value is affected by liability evidence, comparative-fault issues, injury severity, permanency, treatment, future care, lost earning capacity, credibility, available insurance and assets, venue, and whether the evidence can be presented clearly to a jury. The meaningful question is not what an insurer's early formula produces. It is what the admissible evidence can prove about fault, causation, damages, and the lasting effect of the collision.
Who may be legally responsible for a pedestrian crash?
The driver is often the starting point, but not always the end of the investigation. Depending on the facts, responsibility may extend to the vehicle owner, a driver's employer, a delivery or transportation company, a property owner, a homeowners' association, a roadway contractor, a governmental entity, or a manufacturer.
Examples include a left-turning driver focused on vehicle traffic, a commercial driver working at the time of the crash, an owner who entrusted a vehicle to an unsafe driver, a parking lot with a dangerous design, vegetation that blocks an intersection sightline, malfunctioning signals, inadequate lighting, or a defective vehicle component. Claims involving public entities may have special notice requirements, defenses, and deadlines.
What compensation may be available?
Recoverable damages depend on the proof and the applicable law. A claim may include past and future medical expenses, rehabilitation, medication, assistive devices, lost wages, reduced earning capacity, replacement household services, pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, scarring, psychological trauma, and loss of enjoyment of life.
When a pedestrian dies, the personal representative of the estate may bring a wrongful-death action for the benefit of qualifying survivors and the estate. The recoverable categories depend on the survivor's relationship to the person who died and other statutory requirements.
What evidence can make the claim stronger?
Important evidence may include police body-camera footage, 911 audio, traffic and business surveillance, doorbell video, witness statements, signal timing, event-data-recorder information, cellphone records, vehicle inspections, scene measurements, lighting studies, medical imaging, treating-provider opinions, employment records, tax documents, photographs showing recovery over time, and testimony from family members or coworkers.
Video can be overwritten and physical conditions can change. Vehicles are repaired, vegetation is trimmed, construction equipment moves, and witnesses become harder to locate. The firm can send preservation notices, inspect the scene and vehicle, obtain public records, identify cameras, and retain qualified experts when the dispute requires reconstruction, medical analysis, vocational evaluation, or future-care planning.
How long do I have to bring a Florida pedestrian claim?
For Florida Pedestrian Accident claims arising on or after March 24, 2023, the lawsuit deadline is generally two years. Florida wrongful-death actions are also generally subject to a two-year limitations period. Different accrual rules, tolling issues, government notice requirements, insurance-contract deadlines, and other exceptions may apply.
The lawsuit deadline is separate from the 14-day PIP treatment requirement. Waiting for an insurer to investigate or negotiate does not necessarily stop the limitations period. The safest course is to obtain an individualized deadline analysis promptly.
How Long Does a Pedestrian Accident Claim Take?
A pedestrian accident claim may resolve within several months, but a serious or disputed case can take a year or longer. If a lawsuit and trial become necessary, the process may take considerably longer. No responsible lawyer can promise a completion date before investigating the collision, identifying the available insurance, and understanding the full medical consequences of the injuries.
The claim generally moves through several stages: investigation and evidence preservation, medical treatment and evaluation, preparation of a settlement demand, negotiation, and, when necessary, litigation. The timeline may be affected by the severity of the injuries, the need for surgery or future care, disputes over fault, multiple responsible parties, delays in obtaining insurance information, expert analysis, and the insurer’s willingness to negotiate fairly.
Speed matters, but so does timing. Settling before the injuries and future needs are reasonably understood can leave a client without compensation for future medical care, reduced earning capacity, or permanent limitations. We work with each client to develop the best path forward, balancing the need for prompt financial relief against the importance of fully documenting the claim. We move the case forward without unnecessary delay, but we do not sacrifice its value merely to resolve it quickly.
Will my pedestrian accident case go to trial?
Most pedestrian claims resolve without a jury trial. Whether your case should settle or proceed toward trial depends on the strength of the evidence, the amount offered, the risks of litigation, the available insurance and assets, and your individual needs and priorities.
You remain in control of the decision. We will explain every settlement offer, give you our honest assessment, and discuss the advantages and risks of accepting, rejecting, or continuing to negotiate. We provide the evidence, experience, and advice needed to make an informed decision, but the final decision whether to accept a settlement belongs to you.
We prepare every case as though it will be tried. Our firm never assumes that an insurance company will act fairly or settle early, and we make our readiness for trial clear. Insurers may make lowball offers, delay the claim, withhold information, refuse to negotiate meaningfully, contest liability, minimize injuries, challenge medical causation, blame the pedestrian, dispute the need for future care, or argue that limited coverage restricts the recovery. Before critical evidence is lost and deadlines pass, we develop witness testimony, medical evidence, exhibits, expert analysis, and a clear presentation of the client’s damages. Our demands are supported by evidence, not an arbitrary number.
Contingency-Fee Representation: We Don’t Get Paid Unless We Recover Compensation for You
All consultations with us are free. Daniel B Reinfeld, PA accepts pedestrian accident cases under written contingency-fee agreements. The fee is calculated as an agreed percentage of the recovery and is paid only if compensation is obtained for you. We review the agreement with you before representation begins so that you understand how attorney’s fees and case expenses will affect any recovery. You will not be asked to advance any costs. If no recovery is obtained, you owe no attorney’s fee and are not required to reimburse the case expenses advanced by the firm.
How Daniel B Reinfeld, PA Builds a Pedestrian Accident Case
No lawyer can promise a result. The firm's role is to improve the quality of the proof, identify avoidable risks, and prepare the case to withstand the defenses that commonly reduce pedestrian claims. Dan acts quickly to preserve surveillance, traffic and police records, witness testimony, vehicle data, and other evidence before it disappears. He evaluates driver conduct, visibility, crosswalk and signal rules, roadway conditions, vehicle ownership, employment relationships, and comparative-fault defenses; identifies all available PIP, bodily-injury, UM/UIM, commercial, and employer coverage; and documents medical causation, permanent injuries, lost income, future needs, and the complete impact of the damages.
Pedestrian cases require more than proving that a vehicle struck a person. Drawing on his pedestrian jury-trial experience, Dan prepares the evidence needed to explain the pedestrian’s movements, the driver’s opportunity to perceive and react, sightlines, signal phases, impact mechanics, medical causation, future limitations, and disputed fault. A case supported by admissible evidence, credible witnesses, and clear exhibits creates settlement leverage—and remains ready for trial if the insurer will not offer a fair resolution.
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Daniel B Reinfeld, PA was recognized by TopVerdict for obtaining one of Florida’s Top 10 Pedestrian Accident Verdicts in 2024. The firm secured a $1.6 million unanimous jury verdict. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every pedestrian case depends on its facts, available evidence, applicable law, insurance and assets, injuries, and damages.
If you or a family member was struck while walking, early legal work can protect evidence and insurance rights that may otherwise be lost. Daniel B Reinfeld, PA can review the crash, identify immediate preservation steps, evaluate potential defendants and coverage, and explain the deadlines that apply to the particular claim.
📞 Call Today. Discuss Your Pedestrian Accident Directly With Dan
If you or a family member was struck while walking, early legal work can preserve evidence, protect insurance rights, identify liable parties and coverage, and prevent important deadlines from expiring. You will speak directly with Dan—not a call center or intake department. Dan is a trial-tested personal injury lawyer with more than 25 years of experience and former insurance-defense knowledge. He personally evaluates and handles every case accepted by the firm. You do not need to travel to the Hollywood office to begin your case. FREE Consultations may be available by telephone, Zoom video conference, hospital visit, or home visit when appropriate. No attorney’s fee unless a recovery is obtained. Evening and weekend appointments available. CALL Dan: 📞 (954) 923-6110
DANIEL B REINFELD, PA
2450 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 706
Hollywood, Florida 33020
Directions to Our Hollywood, FL Office
From I-95: Take the Hollywood Boulevard exit and head east toward downtown Hollywood. Continue through Hollywood City Hall Circle. Our office will be on your right, immediately after the circle.
From Young Circle and Downtown Hollywood: Head west on Hollywood Boulevard for approximately seven blocks. Our office will be on your left, near South 25th Avenue and immediately before Hollywood City Hall Circle.
From Hollywood Beach: Take Hollywood Boulevard west from A1A, continue through downtown and Young Circle, and proceed approximately seven blocks. Our office will be on your left, shortly before Hollywood City Hall Circle.