Attorney Profile: Daniel B Reinfeld, Esq., Florida Trial Lawyer Since 1999

Daniel B Reinfeld is a Hollywood, Florida personal injury attorney with more than 25 years of federal and Florida state-court litigation experience. Admitted to The Florida Bar in 1999, Dan represents people injured in car and truck accidents, pedestrian and rideshare collisions, premises-liability and construction accidents, and other serious-injury and wrongful-death cases throughout Broward County, South Florida, and elsewhere in Florida when appropriate. Dan personally handles every personal injury case accepted by the firm—from the initial consultation and investigation through settlement negotiations, litigation, and trial. Clients speak directly with their attorney instead of having their cases managed primarily by an intake department, case manager, or outside trial counsel.

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Daniel Reinfeld — Attorney Credentials

Founding Attorney, Daniel B Reinfeld, PA
Florida Bar Number: 174815
Admitted to The Florida Bar: 1999
J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1998
B.A., Marquette University, 1994
Office: 2450 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 706, Hollywood, Florida 33020

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Profile last reviewed and updated October 22, 2026.

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A Longstanding Connection to Hollywood

Dan’s connection to Hollywood predates his legal practice. His family has lived in Hollywood since 1967, and Dan has lived in the community since 1985. His uncle, Father Daniel Doyle, S.M., was the first president of Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory. The firm continues that family connection by sponsoring a scholarship benefiting a Chaminade-Madonna student. Dan has represented clients from his Hollywood law office since 1999. He understands that local representation involves more than listing a city on a service-area page. His work is rooted in the community where he lives, maintains his office, raises his family, and practices law.​

Trial Experience Informed by Both Sides of an Insurance Dispute

Before representing injured plaintiffs, Dan spent approximately six years in insurance defense, representing insurance companies, rental-car companies, insured businesses, physicians, hospitals, and other defendants in civil litigation. That experience taught him how insurers investigate accidents, evaluate medical evidence, contest causation, allocate fault, analyze insurance coverage, calculate exposure, and decide whether to settle or proceed toward trial.

Dan also served for three years as a Broward County Assistant Public Defender, where he gained substantial courtroom and jury-trial experience. Earlier in his career, he served as a Certified Legal Intern with the Broward County State Attorney’s Office. His litigation work has taken him to state and federal courts throughout Florida, with jury-trial experience extending from Key West to Orlando.

Today, Dan applies that combined background to representing injured people. Each accepted case is developed with the evidence, medical documentation, expert support, insurance analysis, and legal strategy needed for meaningful settlement negotiations and, when necessary, presentation to a judge or jury.​

$1,600,000 Jury Verdict: Minor Pedestrian Struck in Hospital Valet Crosswalk — Recognized by TopVerdict.com

In 2024, Daniel B. Reinfeld obtained a $1.6 million unanimous Orange County jury verdict for a minor pedestrian injured in a motor-vehicle collision in Orlando, Florida. The Complaint alleged that the valet driver struck the child while the child was in a crosswalk in front of a hospital valet drop-off area.

TopVerdict independently recognized the verdict, listing it among the Top 100 Verdicts in Florida for 2024 and among Florida’s Top 10 Pedestrian Accident Verdicts for that year.

$2 Million Car Accident Settlement

Daniel B. Reinfeld obtained a $2 million motor-vehicle settlement arising from a motor-vehicle accident personal injury claim. The recovery qualified Dan for life membership in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, organizations whose membership eligibility requires qualifying million- and multimillion-dollar verdicts or settlements.

These are selected prior results. Every case depends on its own facts, evidence, injuries, insurance coverage, applicable law, and procedural history. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome.

Awards and Professional Recognition

• Top 10 Pedestrian Accident Verdicts in Florida, 2024 — TopVerdict

• Top 100 Verdicts in Florida, 2024 — TopVerdict

• Life Member — Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum®

• Life Member — Million Dollar Advocates Forum®

• AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rating, 5.0/5.0 — Martindale-Hubbell, since 2013

• 10.0 Attorney Rating and 5.0/5.0 Client Rating — Avvo

• Clients’ Choice Award — Avvo

• The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 — The National Trial Lawyers

• Lead Counsel Rated in Civil Litigation — Lead Counsel, 2016

• South Florida’s Top Rated Lawyers — Daily Business Review, 2015

• South Florida’s Legal Leaders — Miami Herald, 2015

• Felony Trial Award — Broward County Public Defender’s Office, 17th Judicial Circuit, 2003

Ratings, memberships, and recognitions are conferred by the identified independent organizations. Their selection methodologies and eligibility requirements vary, and no rating or recognition guarantees a particular result.

Former Insurance Defense Experience

Dan began his private-practice career at Wicker Smith, defending physicians, hospitals, and other health-care providers in medical-malpractice litigation, including hospitals affiliated with Tenet Healthcare. His work included litigation involving physicians sued in connection with thimerosal-containing vaccines, including federal-jurisdiction and fraudulent-joinder issues arising when treating physicians were named as defendants in vaccine litigation. He also assisted the firm’s workers’ compensation defense practice.

Dan later joined Michaud, Bushman, where his practice included defending physicians in medical-malpractice cases and representing medical professionals in proceedings involving the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) and Florida Department of Health. His work at Michaud, Bushman also included the early litigation surrounding Florida’s November 2004 Amendment 7, the “Patients’ Right to Know About Adverse Medical Incidents” amendment. Dan participated in matters addressing the amendment’s effect on adverse-medical-incident, peer-review, and related health-care records. Dan also wrote about this developing area of Florida law, authoring “Amendment 7 ‘Patients Right to Know About Adverse Medical Incidents’” for the Medical Malpractice Monitor in 2004.

Dan later joined a statewide Florida insurance-defense firm, where his practice expanded beyond medical malpractice to a broader range of insurance and civil litigation. He defended insured individuals and rental-car companies in automobile and general-liability cases; handled employment matters involving discrimination and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime claims; and worked on catastrophic and high-value first-party property-insurance disputes, including property subsidence and sinkhole claims. His work also included the defense arising from the 2008 Key West Airport parking-garage collapse.

Before representing injured people, Dan also participated on the rental-company side of federal litigation involving the Graves Amendment, Florida’s dangerous-instrumentality doctrine, the Commerce Clause, and the scope of rental-company liability. Those matters included Garcia v. Vanguard Car Rental USA, Inc., Vanguard Car Rental USA, Inc. v. Huchon, and Vanguard Car Rental USA, Inc. v. Drouin. That defense experience now informs Dan’s work representing injured people and policyholders. His background helps him analyze insurance coverage, corporate and vehicle ownership, rental agreements, financial-responsibility documents, coverage elections, liability defenses, and asserted Graves Amendment protections from the perspective of someone who previously worked on the defense side of these disputes.​

Representative Reported Decisions

Dan’s litigation experience includes matters reported in federal and Florida legal publications:

• Prou v. Giarla, No. 13-24266-CIV, 2014 WL 12621967 (S.D. Fla. 2014).

• Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. v. Fort Myers Total Rehab Center, Inc., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21574 (M.D. Fla. 2010).

• La Rocca v. Stahlheber, 676 F. Supp. 2d 1347 (S.D. Fla. 2009).

• Vanguard Car Rental USA, Inc. v. Huchon, 532 F. Supp. 2d 1371 (S.D. Fla. 2007).

• Vanguard Car Rental USA, Inc. v. Druin, 2009 WL 995141, 21 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. C 1719 (11th Cir. 2009).

• State v. Miceli, 8 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 393b (Fla. Monroe Cnty. Ct. Feb. 27, 2001).

These reported decisions reflect Daniel Reinfeld’s experience in federal and Florida litigation involving insurance, civil liability, rental-car claims, and other contested matters.

Additional Insurance, Property-Damage and Employment Results

In addition to personal injury cases, Daniel B. Reinfeld has obtained settlements and awards for clients in homeowners insurance, property damage, condominium, marine-insurance, and unpaid-overtime disputes. These matters reflect the broader civil-litigation and insurance experience Dan brings to the firm’s personal injury practice.

$100,000 FLSA Unpaid Overtime Settlement

Mr. Reinfeld obtained a $100,000 settlement in an unpaid overtime matter, representing a worker seeking compensation for allegedly unpaid wages and overtime.

$201,000 Insurance Appraisal Award and Water Damage Claim Against State Farm

Mr. Reinfeld represented homeowners in a complicated property insurance loss arising from windstorm and water damage. In the windstorm claim, the matter proceeded through appraisal and resulted in a $140,000 indemnity payment for the appraisal award. Total recovery for the homeowners was approximately $201,000.

$100,000 Insurance Appraisal Award and Water Damage Claim Against Citizens

Mr. Reinfeld represented a Florida homeowner in a water-damage insurance claim against Citizens Property Insurance Corporation involving cast-iron plumbing and pipe damage. The claim involved disputed homeowners insurance coverage for water damage associated with the property’s plumbing system and resulted in an appraisal award for the policyholder. The total claim resolved in excess of $100,000.

$175,000 Condominium Association Claim — Water Damage

Mr. Reinfeld obtained a $175,000 settlement in a condominium roof and water-damage claim involving damage caused by water intrusion from the roofing system. The disputed property-damage matter involved a condominium association and resulted in a $175,000 settlement for the client.

$96,000 Commercial Property Settlement — Property Manager and Condominium Association

Mr. Reinfeld represented commercial property interests in litigation over roof leaks and water intrusion allegedly caused by failures to properly maintain and repair the property. The lawsuit asserted negligence and breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims and resulted in a $96,000 settlement against the property manager and condominium association.

$90,000 Defective Faucet Product Liability & Property Damage Lawsuit

Mr. Reinfeld represented a Florida homeowner in a product-liability and property-damage lawsuit against a major national retailer involving a defective bathroom faucet that burst and flooded a bathroom. The homeowner’s insurance company tendered $10,000 for the water damage, and the lawsuit against the retailer alleging strict product liability, negligence, defective product design and manufacturing, failure to warn, and breach of warranty resulted in a total recovery for the homeowner of $90,000.

$75,000 Marine and Yacht Insurance Arbitration Settlement

Mr. Reinfeld obtained a $75,000 arbitration settlement in a marine and yacht insurance dispute, resolving a contested insurance claim through arbitration.

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