Florida Child Injury Attorney – Howard Talenfeld NEWS

Howard Talenfeld is a Co-Business Unit Leader/Partner in the firm’s Justice for Kids Division, Kelley Kronenberg’s national practice dedicated to providing legal services to abused, disabled, and catastrophically injured children harmed at home, in child welfare and foster care settings.

Attorney Talenfeld is one of America’s leading children’s rights, injury, and child disability attorneys representing the needs of abused and neglected children, especially in cases of foster child abuse, child sexual abuse, child rape, and other harm and abuse of children in the child welfare system.

A division of law firm Kelley Kronenberg, Justice for Kids is Florida’s premier law practice exclusively dedicated to fighting for and protecting the rights of abused, disabled and injured children in personal injury and damages cases. Our clients include society’s most vulnerable – at-risk and medically fragile children who have been physically, sexually, and emotionally abused or injured or suffered wrongful death in such settings as foster homes, group homes, family residences, residential treatment centers, and emergency shelters.

Florida Child Abuse Lawyer

Thousands of foster children, former foster children, developmentally disabled and medically fragile children are part of the Florida child care system.

Howard Talenfeld and the attorneys with Justice for Kids have spent decades fighting for abused, disabled and injured kids in foster care and other child welfare settings in personal injury and damages cases. Below is a sample of some of our most successful results.

Disclaimer: Most cases result in a lower recovery. Results may not be typical and reflect awards before deduction for attorneys’ fees and expenses. It should not be assumed that your case will have as beneficial a result.

Governor Scott Signs $5 Million Claims Bill for Child Sexually Abused by Foster Boy Living in the Home

On Friday, March 23, 2018, Governor Rick Scott signed CS/HB 6509, a claims bill that directs the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) to pay more than $5 million awarded by a Florida jury to C.M.H., a victim of sexual abuse by a child in foster care. This marks the largest known recovery in Florida for one child who was emotionally and sexually abused against a governmental defendant, DCF. Children’s rights attorney Howard Talenfeld served as co-counsel for C.M.H.

Florida Foster Care Abuse Attorney 

Disabled children who have physical disabilities, developmental disabilities, and mental health-related issues are in need of critical attention and specialized representation. Justice for Kids brings its unique and proven approach to the representation of these children who are eligible for governmental benefits, whose services are being cut and others who have been abused by the state child welfare system.

Our team’s lawsuits and advocacy have has led to widespread reforms and awareness. Howard helped raise public attention to the then-common practice of prescribing “psychotropic cocktails” of powerful anti-psychotic medications to young children and foster children in state-contracted settings. He brought a wrongful death lawsuit after a 12-year-old Autistic boy died from being given multiple psychotropic medications with no monitoring or supervision in a dangerous, off-label practice without parental consent.

Fl Disabled child abuse/ injury law firm – Howard Talenfeld of Kelley Kronenberg.

Have a case or concern about child abuse or a child injury call us today at: 844-454-3529