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At fault state, no PIP, pure comparative fault, lien statutes. These rules quietly decide what your claim is worth.
How It Works
No mystery and no paperwork to start. Here is the whole sequence, from the first phone call to the day your claim resolves.
Seven days a week, 6 AM to 8 PM. Tell us what happened in your own words. The call is free, it creates no obligation, and if you can't come to us we'll come to you: hospital, home, or over the phone.
We walk through the crash, your injuries, and the coverage that may apply. If we don't think you have a case, we'll tell you that on the first call rather than sign you up.
Photos, the crash report, witness statements, and the policy documents that decide what coverage actually exists. This is also when we find out whether the at-fault driver carried more than the 25/50/15 state minimum.
You focus on your medical care while we assemble the record: bills, imaging, provider notes, and time missed at work. Arizona is an at-fault state with no PIP, so who pays for that treatment has to be worked out deliberately.
Once your treatment is far enough along to know what the injury really cost you, we present the demand and deal with the adjuster. You aren't the one on the phone arguing about your own MRI.
Most claims resolve without a lawsuit. If the offer doesn't reflect what happened to you, we are prepared to file before the deadline runs. That is generally two years, and only one year plus a separate 180-day notice when a public entity or public employee is involved.
Whatever hit you (or whatever you were in when it happened), the Arizona rules on fault, deadlines, and coverage still decide your claim. Here is what we take on.
Rear-end hits, left-turn collisions, intersection crashes, and highway pileups. Arizona's comparative-fault rule turns these into an argument over percentages, and the adjuster is already building their version of it.
Semis, delivery vans, and commercial fleets. A commercial policy is far larger than the 25/50/15 state minimum, but so is the team defending it: these claims usually involve a carrier, an insurer, and their investigators from day one.
Left-turn hits, lane-change collisions, and drivers who never looked twice. Riders get blamed for the crash more often than the facts support, so the evidence has to be locked down before anyone's story hardens.
Crosswalk strikes, parking-lot backovers, and bicycle-versus-vehicle collisions. Injuries run severe and the driver's policy runs out fast, so uninsured and underinsured coverage often decides the claim.
Uber and Lyft crashes, rental cars, delivery drivers, and hit-and-runs. Which policy pays can depend on whether the app was on and whether a passenger was aboard, so the first job is finding every layer of coverage in play.
Common Concerns
Almost everyone who calls us hesitated first. These are the six hesitations we hear most, answered straight.
There is nothing to afford up front. The consultation is free and the representation is on contingency, so the fee comes out of a recovery, and if there is no recovery, there is no fee. Being out of money is a reason to call, not a reason to wait.
Let us be the ones to tell you that. Small-sounding crashes routinely involve liens, a low policy limit, or a soft-tissue injury that shows up weeks later. The call costs nothing, and if it truly isn't worth pursuing we'll say so.
Arizona uses pure comparative negligence, which means being partly at fault reduces your recovery by your percentage of fault. It does not bar you from recovering. Fault percentages are argued, not handed down at the scene, and that argument is worth having.
That happens constantly. A recorded statement locks in your version before you've seen the photos again or received a diagnosis, which is exactly why it's taken early. Whether anything you said actually hurts you depends on what you said. Tell us, and we'll work from there.
Arizona's minimum is 25/50/15 ($25,000 for one person's injuries), and a hospital stay can exhaust that quickly. Your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage and any MedPay may still apply, and insurers are required to have offered UM and UIM in writing.
Generally you have two years from when the claim accrues, but the clock is shorter than people expect in some cases: a claim against a public entity or employee has to be filed within one year and carries a separate 180-day notice deadline. Call and let us check your dates before assuming it's too late.
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About Us
Arizona Injury & Workers' Comp Law Firm is a service of My AZ Lawyers, PLLC. An established Arizona firm serving clients since 1999.
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Before law, Alison spent a career in clinical social work, helping families through crisis as a therapist and investigator. She brings that same steadiness to injured clients navigating some of the hardest days of their lives. She has been with My AZ Lawyers since 2016.
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Born and raised in Phoenix, Brennan knows Arizona because it's home. During law school he externed with an insurance-defense civil litigation firm, so he knows how the other side builds its case. He joined My AZ Lawyers in 2020.
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Arizona generally gives you two years from the date your injury claim accrues to file suit. That sounds like room to breathe, which is exactly why people wait. Two deadlines cut it far shorter: a claim against a public entity or public employee must be filed within one year, and carries a separate 180-day notice requirement on top of that.
Use the two years by starting early, not by spending it. Skid marks wash away, damaged vehicles get repaired or scrapped, and traffic and business camera footage is overwritten on its own schedule, usually within weeks.
Arizona follows pure comparative negligence. Being partly to blame reduces your recovery by your percentage of fault. It does not bar it. This is the rule people most often talk themselves out of a claim over, usually on the strength of something they said at the scene while still shaken.
Use it by not disqualifying yourself. Fault percentages are argued from evidence, not settled at the roadside, and the other side's adjuster begins assembling their version of that argument the same week.
The least an Arizona driver can legally carry is $25,000 for one person's injuries, $50,000 per accident, and $15,000 in property damage. A single hospital stay can exhaust that. Policies issued or renewed on or before June 30, 2020 may still sit at the older 15/30/10 limits.
Use it by looking past the at-fault driver's policy. Arizona is an at-fault state with no PIP, but your own uninsured and underinsured coverage may still apply. Insurers are required to offer UM and UIM in writing, and finding every layer takes time.
The sooner you call, the more of this is still working in your favor.
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The Cost Of Waiting
In Arizona you generally have two years from the date your injury claim accrues to file a personal injury lawsuit, under A.R.S. § 12-542(1). Two years isn't universal. If the vehicle that hit you belonged to a city, a county, a school district, or the state, the suit has to be filed within one year of when the claim accrues, and that one-year period runs in addition to a separate 180-day notice-of-claim deadline under A.R.S. § 12-821.
Yes. Arizona follows pure comparative negligence under A.R.S. § 12-2505(A), so you can still recover even if you were partly at fault, and your award is reduced by your percentage of fault. There's one bar written into the statute: a claimant who intentionally, wilfully, or wantonly caused or contributed to the injury has no comparative-negligence right at all.
Arizona's minimum required auto liability coverage is 25/50/15 under A.R.S. § 28-4009: $25,000 for bodily injury or death of one person, $50,000 per accident when two or more people are hurt, and $15,000 for property damage. When that isn't enough, the next layer is usually your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, which A.R.S. § 20-259.01 requires your insurer to offer you in writing.
Often, yes. A licensed provider's lien attaches to your injury settlement or judgment rather than to your personal assets, under A.R.S. § 33-931(A). Two limits matter: one-third of the recovery is exempt from any provider lien under A.R.S. § 33-931(E), and for services on or after January 1, 2023 the lien doesn't reach your health insurance, MedPay, or UM/UIM coverage.
No. Arizona uses several liability under A.R.S. § 12-2506(A) and (D), so each defendant pays only its own share based on its percentage of fault, and a separate judgment is entered against each. Joint liability survives only in narrow situations: parties acting in concert to commit an intentional tort, an agent-and-principal relationship, or claims under the federal Employers' Liability Act.
It depends on the amount in dispute. Arizona justice courts handle civil cases where the amount involved is $10,000 or less, not counting interest, costs, and attorney fees, under A.R.S. § 22-201(B). A serious injury claim is usually worth more than that, which puts it in superior court. The at-fault driver's criminal case is separate: justice and municipal courts handle most misdemeanor DUI, while felony or aggravated DUI is tried in superior court.
Two different claims exist. The wrongful death action is brought by the surviving spouse, children, or parents, or by the personal representative on their behalf, as a single action for all beneficiaries under A.R.S. § 12-612(A). The estate's separate survival action under A.R.S. § 14-3110 covers the deceased person's own pre-death losses but can't recover for their pain and suffering. The two-year deadline for wrongful death comes from A.R.S. § 12-542 and runs from the date of death.
The consultation is free, seven days a week from 6 AM to 8 PM, and there is no fee unless we win: you pay nothing up front, and we only get paid if you do. If getting to an office is hard right now, we will come to you at the hospital or your home, or handle the whole thing by phone. Call (602) 715-0000 to talk it through; nothing about that call commits you to hiring anyone.
Not every crash needs one. If nobody was hurt and the only open item is a repair bill, you may be fine handling it on your own. It's worth a call when you're being treated for an injury, when the other side is blaming you, when more than one driver was involved, or when a hospital, AHCCCS, or Medicare is claiming a piece of whatever you recover. In Arizona your award is reduced by your own percentage of fault, each defendant pays only its own share, and medical liens attach to the settlement itself, so those details decide what you actually keep.
Talk to a lawyer before you do. Arizona is a pure comparative negligence state: you can still recover if you were partly at fault, but your award gets reduced by your fault percentage, so an offhand answer about your speed or where you were looking can be worth real money later. Your relationship with your own insurer and your relationship with the other driver's insurer are not the same thing, and that is worth sorting out before the call rather than after.
Mostly it depends on your medical treatment: a claim can't be evaluated honestly until your doctors know where you're going to end up, and that arc looks different for a soft-tissue injury than for a surgery. Disputed fault, multiple drivers, and insurance negotiation all add time on top of that. What doesn't wait is the filing deadline: generally two years from when the claim accrues, and far shorter if a public entity or public employee was involved, where there is a one-year deadline to file plus a separate 180-day notice-of-claim deadline. We won't predict a date for you, because any date we gave you now would be a guess.
Generally yes, and it's a separate question from whether a hospital or clinic has a lien. AHCCCS holds a lien on your recovery, and once a lawsuit is filed, written notice has to go to AHCCCS within 20 days under A.R.S. § 36-2915. Medicare is a secondary payer, meaning the conditional payments it made for your treatment get repaid out of the settlement. Handling these before money changes hands directly affects what ends up in your pocket, so bring your AHCCCS or Medicare information to the free consultation.
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In Arizona you generally have two years from the date your injury claim accrues to file a personal injury lawsuit.
AZ-PI-0016
Lawsuits against an Arizona public entity or employee have to be filed within one year of when the claim accrues, and that runs in addition to the separate 180-day notice-of-claim deadline.
AZ-PI-0018
You can't recover punitive damages against a government entity, or against a government employee acting within the scope of the job.
AZ-PI-0021
For ordinary injury claims the deadline is paused while the injured person is under 18 or of unsound mind, and the full period starts once that disability ends. Government claims have their own separate tolling rule.
AZ-PI-0019
Arizona follows pure comparative negligence, so you can still recover for your injuries even if you were partly at fault, and your award is reduced by your percentage of fault.
AZ-PI-0060
Under the comparative-fault statute, the claimant's fault can include fault legally imputed to them, not just their own conduct.
AZ-PI-0061
Arizona uses several liability, so each defendant pays only its own share of the damages based on its percentage of fault, with a separate judgment against each.
AZ-PI-0062
Arizona keeps joint liability only in narrow situations: parties acting in concert to commit an intentional tort, an agent-and-principal relationship, or FELA claims.
AZ-PI-0063
The minimum required auto liability coverage is 25/50/15: $25,000 for bodily injury or death of one person, $50,000 per accident when two or more people are hurt, and $15,000 for property damage.
AZ-PI-0001
Arizona raised its minimum auto liability limits to 25/50/15 for policies issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2020, and older policies issued or renewed on or before June 30, 2020 may still carry the prior 15/30/10 limits.
AZ-PI-0002
Medical payments coverage is optional in Arizona. It pays reasonable medical and funeral costs regardless of who was at fault, up to the limit you choose, and Arizona is an at-fault state with no no-fault or PIP system.
AZ-PI-0006
The law governing uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage is A.R.S. § 20-259.01, which requires insurers to offer UM and UIM coverage in writing.
AZ-PI-0003
Insurers have to offer uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage in writing on an approved form, and if the insurer fails to make a valid written offer that coverage can be read into the policy by law, up to the policy's liability limits.
AZ-PI-0004
A medical provider's lien attaches to your injury settlement or judgment, not to your personal assets.
AZ-PI-0049
One-third of your injury recovery is protected from provider liens, and an in-network provider generally can't lien your recovery unless its contract expressly allows it.
AZ-PI-0053
Provider liens don't reach your health insurance, MedPay, or uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for services on or after January 1, 2023.
AZ-PI-0052
A settlement release doesn't wipe out a perfected provider lien unless the lienholder joins in or releases it, and the lienholder has two years to enforce the lien.
AZ-PI-0054
AHCCCS holds a lien on your injury recovery, and you have to notify AHCCCS in writing within 20 days of filing a civil action. The AHCCCS lien has priority over provider and most other liens but can be negotiated.
AZ-PI-0055
Medicare is a secondary payer in injury cases, so any conditional payments Medicare made have to be repaid out of a settlement once the at-fault party's responsibility is established.
AZ-PI-0057
A self-funded ERISA health plan can seek reimbursement from your settlement only out of an identifiable fund it can trace, and under Montanile it can't reach your general assets once those funds are spent on untraceable items.
AZ-PI-0058
Justice courts handle civil cases where the amount in dispute is $10,000 or less, not counting interest, costs, and attorney fees.
AZ-PI-0010
Justice courts handle misdemeanors, including misdemeanor DUI, but not felonies, and for felony cases they hold the initial appearance and preliminary hearing only.
AZ-PI-0014
City and town courts handle violations of local ordinances and most misdemeanor DUI charges within their limits, and felony or aggravated DUI is tried in superior court.
AZ-PI-0013
The two-year deadline for wrongful death claims comes from A.R.S. § 12-542 and runs from the date of death, and the wrongful-death statutes create the claim but don't set the deadline.
AZ-PI-0065
A wrongful death claim is brought by the surviving spouse, children, or parents, or by the personal representative on their behalf, as a single action for all beneficiaries.
AZ-PI-0066
The jury awards damages it finds fair and just for the survivors' losses, and may add punitive damages when the conduct was willful, malicious, or grossly negligent.
AZ-PI-0067
A survival action lets the estate pursue the deceased person's own pre-death losses, but it can't recover for the decedent's pain and suffering, and it's separate from the wrongful death claim, which belongs to the family.
AZ-PI-0068
This page is general information about Arizona law, not legal advice, and reading it doesn't create an attorney-client relationship. Deadlines and outcomes turn on the facts of your case, so ask early. Last reviewed July 22, 2026.
