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Palm Beach County Health Officials Issue Emergency Order Against Treatment Center for Kids After a Child’s Death for Negligence and Failure to Follow Critical Mental Health Procedures

              

A residential mental health treatment facility in Palm Beach County, Florida can’t admit new clients with a “history of self-harm, suicidal ideations or suicide attempts” according to an order issued by the state. As reported by WFLX Fox 29, the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) claims that employees at... View Article

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Illinois Daycare Safety Crisis: From Tragedy to Systemic Change in Child Protection

              

By: Julianna Walo, Esquire A Tragic Case Reshapes Illinois Daycare Safety Fifteen years ago, on January 14, 2009, a child’s death in the hands of a daycare led to many questions of child neglect and abuse. The daycare worker, Melissa Calusinski, was working at a daycare in a suburb of Chicago.... View Article

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Your Family Deserved the Truth: Fighting Adoption Agency Negligence

              

When adoptive parents welcome a child into their home, they trust adoption agencies to provide complete and accurate information about their child’s background. Unfortunately, this trust can be broken through adoption agency negligence–a serious legal issue that can have devastating consequences for families and may warrant an adoption negligence lawsuit. Such... View Article

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WFSU: The Franklin County sheriff calls out DCF for abandoning kids

              

As reported by WFSU, Franklin County Sheriff A. J. Smith is again calling out the Florida Department of Children and Families for failing to serve abused children and neglected kids in his jurisdiction. Read the full story here.

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Justice for Kids Achieves Three Top 50 Florida Verdicts

              

Justice for Kids, a division of Kelley Kronenberg, is pleased to announce the division and several of its attorneys have been recognized on Top Verdict’s list of the top 50 plaintiff’s jury verdicts obtained in Florida in 2023. These include: $15 million verdict on behalf of a brain-damaged 8-year-old child in... View Article

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Child Welfare Agencies Accused of Keeping Foster Children With Developmental Disabilities at Hospitals Beyond Medical Necessity

              

Failure to discharge a foster child from a psychiatric hospital is actionable as a Civil Rights Claim Invoking 42 USC § 1983. Justice for Kids attorneys filed a civil rights lawsuit by a foster child for damages pursuant to 42 USC § 1983 in federal court in Palm Beach County,... View Article

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Family Awarded $13.5 Million for Adoption that Led to Molestation Following a Trial Led by Justice for Kids

              

Following a seven-day trial led by the Justice for Kids Team, a jury awarded $13.5 million to a family that suffered harm after the adoption agency Jewish Family and Community Services (JFCS) failed to warn them about psychological problems that make their adopted son unsafe to be around their daughters, one... View Article

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Jury Awards Father $4.5 Million in Damages in Wrongful Death Case Involving Broward Sheriff’s Office

              

Christopher Nevarez, the father of Makenzie Nevarez, a 6-month-old baby girl who suffered catastrophic injuries and later passed away from blunt force trauma, has been awarded $4.5 million in damages in a wrongful death case involving the Broward Sheriff’s Office for failure to protect his daughter. Justin Grosz and Stacie... View Article

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Sun-Sentinel: Family of baby killed in abuse case seeking $15 million from Broward Sheriff’s Office

              

Jury deliberations are underway in this Justice for Kids case involving the death of 6-month-old Makenzie Nevarez. Her family is accusing the Broward Sheriff’s Office of negligence. Read more here.

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Sun-Sentinel: A baby girl who was the subject of an abuse investigation was killed. Now, a trial begins that accuses child-welfare officials of negligence.

              

Justice for Kids is in court this week regarding a lawsuit about 6-month-old baby Makenzie Nevarez, whose babysitter went to prison in her death. They have alleged that Broward Sheriff’s Office was negligent, arguing the child protection investigator, under the auspices of the agency at the time, could have done... View Article

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