David M. Greene represents homeowners, community associations, and people injured by unsafe or defective construction in Florida — construction defects, property-damage and insurance claims, insurance bad faith, construction-related injury and wrongful death, and the disputes that follow when something built or promised fails.
One firm for the problems that begin with property, construction, and insurance — and the construction-related injuries and disputes that follow. Construction-defect litigation remains the core of the practice.
Statewide Florida practice — based in Tampa
Stucco failures, water intrusion, structural defects, and building-code violations — for homeowners and associations against builders, developers, and contractors, from production-built tract homes to custom luxury construction, from Chapter 558 pre-suit through trial.
Denied, delayed, or underpaid residential property-damage claims — hurricane, water, roof, and related losses under your homeowners policy.
When an insurer fails to handle a valid claim in good faith — unreasonable delay, underpayment, or wrongful denial.
Injuries and fatalities arising from construction sites and defective or unsafe construction — for injured workers, residents, and families who have lost a loved one.
Representation for condominium and homeowners' associations and their members — property-related claims, governance, and disputes.
Disputes arising from construction, real-estate, and business contracts — breach, enforcement, and the negotiation that resolves them.
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.
A crack, leak, or failure appears — often years after construction, once the underlying problem has had time to surface.
Florida law requires written notice of the claimed defects and an opportunity for the builder to inspect before a lawsuit can be filed.
The builder has a statutory window to respond, inspect, and offer repairs or a resolution.
Engineers and cost-of-repair experts document the defects and establish the scope and likely cause.
Many claims resolve or narrow at this stage; those that don't proceed to litigation or, where the purchase agreement requires it, binding arbitration.
Through negotiated settlement, arbitration award, or trial verdict.
Real motion, deposition, and trial experience in construction-defect and related litigation.
One firm accountable to you from first call through resolution — you're never bounced between strangers or left managing your own case.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tell us who you are and what's going on, at a high level. One conversation — no runaround, no obligation.
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.
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.
David M. Greene is a trial attorney licensed in Florida (Florida Bar No. 89805), representing homeowners, community associations, and people injured by unsafe or defective construction. His practice centers on construction-defect litigation and extends to homeowners insurance and bad-faith claims, construction-related injury and 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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