Glendale Personal Injury Lawyer
A serious injury can affect your health, your ability to work, your finances, and the people who depend on you. When the injury was caused by a careless driver, unsafe property, medical error, dangerous product, or another preventable act, you may have the right to seek compensation under Arizona law.
Perez Law Group, PLLC represents injured people in Glendale, the West Valley, greater Phoenix, and communities throughout Arizona. Our legal team can investigate what happened, identify the responsible parties, deal with insurance companies, and pursue compensation that reflects both your current losses and the long-term effects of your injuries.
Call (602) 730-7100 or contact Perez Law Group online to request a free consultation with a Glendale personal injury lawyer.
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Legal Help After an Injury Caused by Negligence
An accident may last only a few seconds, but its effects can continue for months or years. You may be attending medical appointments, missing work, arranging transportation, struggling to sleep, or trying to understand why an insurance company is questioning an injury that has changed your daily life.
A personal injury claim is not only about the first hospital bill. It should consider how the injury affects your ability to earn a living, care for your family, participate in activities, and live independently. Serious cases may also involve future surgeries, rehabilitation, home modifications, mobility equipment, counseling, or ongoing personal care.
A Glendale personal injury attorney can help you understand whether another party may be legally responsible and what evidence will be needed to support your claim. An attorney can also protect you from pressure to accept a settlement before the full impact of the injury is understood.
Our Record Speaks For Itself
Whether defending personal injury victims or individuals facing hardship, Perez Law Group is empowered by the law to deliver the highest level of client service and diligent casework, achieving the results you deserve when you need them most.
These results are specific to the facts and legal circumstances of each client’s case. Results in other cases will differ.
Amounts shown are gross before deduction of fees, costs, and expenses. Past results are not a guarantee of future outcomes.
Do You Have an Arizona Personal Injury Case?
A personal injury case generally begins when another person, business, organization, or government entity fails to act with reasonable care and someone is injured as a result. The fact that an injury occurred does not automatically establish negligence. The available evidence must connect the responsible party’s conduct to the harm you experienced.
A potential negligence claim usually involves four basic elements:
- Duty of care: Another party had a legal responsibility to act with reasonable care, such as a driver following traffic laws or a property owner correcting dangerous conditions.
- Breach of duty: That person or organization acted carelessly, failed to act, or violated an applicable safety responsibility.
- Causation: The careless conduct caused or substantially contributed to the accident and injury.
- Damages: You experienced measurable losses, such as medical expenses, lost income, physical pain, disability, property damage, or emotional distress.
For example, you may have a claim if a distracted driver caused your collision, a store failed to address a known spill, an apartment complex ignored a dangerous condition, or a health care provider caused preventable harm by failing to meet the appropriate standard of care.
Some cases involve more than one responsible party. A commercial vehicle accident could involve the driver, an employer, a maintenance contractor, and an equipment manufacturer. An unsafe-property case could involve the property owner, management company, security contractor, or maintenance provider. Identifying all potentially responsible parties can be important when determining what insurance coverage and compensation may be available.
Personal Injury Cases We Handle
Personal injury law covers many different accidents and forms of negligence. Perez Law Group evaluates each case individually, focusing on what happened, who may be responsible, the available insurance coverage, and how the injury has affected the client’s life.
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Collisions involving cars, commercial trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, buses, and pedestrians can cause serious injuries even when the vehicles show limited visible damage. Liability may involve speeding, distraction, impairment, unsafe turns, following too closely, poor vehicle maintenance, or an employer’s failure to properly train and supervise a driver.
Learn more about representation for Glendale car accidents, commercial truck crashes, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, and pedestrian injuries.
Unsafe Properties and Preventable Hazards
Property owners and businesses may be responsible when they know, or reasonably should know, about an unsafe condition and fail to correct it or provide an adequate warning. These cases may involve broken stairs, poor lighting, wet floors, missing handrails, dangerous walkways, inadequate security, unsafe parking areas, or improperly maintained equipment.
Our attorneys represent people with claims involving premises liability, slip-and-fall injuries, and swimming pool accidents.
Dog Bites and Animal Attacks
Dog attacks can cause deep wounds, infections, nerve damage, scarring, and lasting emotional trauma. Children may be particularly vulnerable to facial injuries and fear following an attack. Arizona dog-bite cases involve specific legal rules, so it is important to document the incident, identify the animal’s owner, obtain medical care, and preserve available evidence.
Learn more about how a Glendale dog-bite lawyer can evaluate an animal-attack claim.
Medical Malpractice
A poor medical outcome does not always mean malpractice occurred. A potential claim may arise, however, when a doctor, hospital, nurse, facility, or other health care provider fails to meet the applicable standard of care and that failure causes additional harm.
These cases can involve delayed diagnoses, surgical errors, medication mistakes, birth injuries, emergency-room errors, failures to monitor a patient, or inadequate follow-up care. Medical negligence claims require careful review of the medical records and frequently involve opinions from qualified medical professionals.
Visit our Glendale medical malpractice attorney page for more information.
Catastrophic Injuries
Some injuries permanently affect a person’s mobility, memory, communication, independence, or ability to work. Catastrophic cases require a detailed assessment of future medical care, rehabilitation, lost earning ability, assistive equipment, and the support the injured person may need throughout life.
Perez Law Group represents clients affected by traumatic brain injuries, back and spinal injuries, and serious burn injuries.
Wrongful Death
When negligence causes a person’s death, certain surviving family members may be able to pursue a wrongful death claim. Although no legal case can replace a loved one, a claim can address funeral expenses, lost financial support, the loss of companionship, and other consequences recognized under Arizona law.
Families can learn more by visiting our Glendale wrongful death attorney page.
Who May Be Responsible for an Unsafe Property?
Medical treatment is often only one part of the harm caused by an accident. An injured person may lose income while recovering, use vacation or sick time for medical appointments, need help with childcare, or pay for transportation because driving is no longer possible.
Long-term injuries can create even greater uncertainty. A person may need additional surgery, physical therapy, pain management, psychological treatment, home health care, or modifications to a vehicle or residence. An injury may prevent someone from returning to the same career or require a reduction in hours and responsibilities.
The personal effects are also important. Chronic pain, scarring, limited mobility, anxiety, sleep problems, and the loss of meaningful activities can affect relationships and quality of life. A properly evaluated claim should account for the complete impact of the injury rather than focusing only on bills that have already arrived.
How Do You Prove That the Owner Knew About the Hazard?
The compensation available in a personal injury case depends on the facts, the seriousness of the injury, the available evidence, the responsible parties, and the applicable insurance coverage.
Economic Damages
Economic damages address financial losses that can generally be documented. These may include emergency transportation, hospital care, surgery, physician visits, diagnostic testing, medication, rehabilitation, future medical treatment, lost wages, reduced earning capacity, property damage, and necessary out-of-pocket expenses.
Non-Economic Damages
Non-economic damages address the personal effects of an injury. Depending on the case, these may include physical pain, emotional distress, disability, disfigurement, inconvenience, and the loss of enjoyment of normal activities.
Wrongful Death Damages
In a qualifying wrongful death case, damages may address funeral and burial expenses, lost income and services, and the emotional and personal losses experienced by eligible surviving family members.
The value and outcome of every case depend on its specific facts. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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Arizona Laws That May Affect Your Personal Injury Claim
Arizona’s Personal Injury Filing Deadline
Many Arizona personal injury lawsuits are subject to a two-year statute of limitations. That does not mean every injured person has exactly two years. The deadline may depend on the type of defendant, when the claim legally accrued, the age of the injured person, and other circumstances.
Waiting can also make a case more difficult even when the filing deadline has not expired. Video can be erased, physical conditions can change, witnesses can become unavailable, and records can be lost. Review Arizona Revised Statutes Section 12-542 for the general two-year limitation that applies to many injury actions.
Comparative Negligence
Being partly responsible for an accident does not necessarily prevent an injured person from pursuing compensation in Arizona. Under Arizona’s comparative negligence law, compensation may be reduced according to the percentage of fault assigned to the injured person.
For example, if an injured person is found 20 percent responsible, a damage award may generally be reduced by 20 percent. Because insurance companies may use comparative-fault arguments to reduce a claim, evidence about how the incident happened can be especially important. Read Arizona Revised Statutes Section 12-2505.
Claims Involving Government Entities
Much shorter requirements can apply when an injury involves a city, county, public school, state agency, public employee, public vehicle, or dangerous government-controlled property. Arizona law generally requires a formal notice of claim within 180 days after a qualifying claim accrues. Lawsuits against public entities or employees are also generally subject to a one-year limitation.
These claims have detailed notice, service, and settlement-demand requirements. See Arizona Revised Statutes Section 12-821.01 and Section 12-821.
Deadlines are fact-specific. Speak with an attorney promptly!
Speak with an attorney as soon as possible rather than relying on a general deadline found online. (602) 730-7100
What to Do After an Accident or Serious Injury
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Obtain appropriate medical care. Call 911 when necessary and follow up with a qualified medical provider. Some injuries become more noticeable after the shock and adrenaline of the incident subside.
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Report what happened. Depending on the situation, report the incident to law enforcement, a property owner, store manager, employer, school, facility, or other responsible organization.
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Preserve evidence. Take photographs or video of the scene, vehicles, hazards, injuries, damaged property, and anything else that may help explain what happened.
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Collect contact information. Obtain the names and contact details of witnesses and the insurance information of the people or businesses involved.
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Document your losses. Keep medical records, bills, receipts, correspondence, wage information, and notes describing your symptoms and recovery.
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Be careful with insurance communications. Avoid guessing, minimizing your injuries, or giving an unnecessary recorded statement before understanding how the information may be used.
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Speak with an attorney before deadlines expire. Early legal review can help identify evidence, insurance policies, responsible parties, and time-sensitive requirements.
How Our Glendale Personal Injury Attorneys Can Help
Investigate What Happened
Our legal team can obtain accident reports, photographs, videos, witness statements, medical records, business records, vehicle information, and other evidence. When appropriate, we can also work with medical professionals, accident reconstruction specialists, engineers, economists, or other qualified experts.
Identify the Responsible Parties
Some claims extend beyond the person who was directly involved in the accident. We examine whether an employer, property owner, management company, contractor, manufacturer, insurance carrier, or government agency may share responsibility.
Evaluate Insurance Coverage
We can review liability insurance, commercial policies, property coverage, uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, and other potential sources of recovery. This can be particularly important when one policy is not sufficient to address a serious injury.
Document Current and Future Losses
Our attorneys consider medical bills, future care, lost income, reduced earning capacity, disability, pain, emotional harm, and other effects supported by the evidence. We do not assume the earliest settlement offer accounts for everything the injury may require.
Handle Negotiations and Litigation
We communicate with insurance companies and defense representatives, prepare the necessary claim materials, evaluate settlement proposals, and explain your options. When a case cannot be resolved fairly through negotiation, we can prepare it for litigation and trial.
Keep You Informed
A personal injury case can involve unfamiliar language and procedures. Our team explains important developments, answers questions, and helps clients make informed decisions throughout the process.
Why Clients Choose Perez Law Group
Glendale-based representation: Our office is located in Glendale, and our attorneys represent injured people throughout the West Valley and Arizona.
Personal attention: We listen to how the injury has affected your life and build the claim around the specific facts and losses involved.
Preparation for difficult cases: We investigate liability, preserve evidence, evaluate damages, negotiate with insurers, and prepare cases for litigation when necessary.
No attorney fees unless we win: When the firm accepts a personal injury case on a contingency-fee basis, the client does not pay attorney fees unless compensation is recovered. The written fee agreement will explain the applicable fee and case-cost terms.
English and Spanish assistance: Perez Law Group provides bilingual legal support. Hablamos Español.
Learn more about Cristina Perez Hesano, David Salgado, and the firm’s other attorneys. You can also read reviews from Perez Law Group clients.
Representing Injured People in Glendale and the West Valley
Perez Law Group is located at 7508 N. 59th Avenue in Glendale’s Catlin Court Historic District. The office is accessible from Grand Avenue, Loop 101, and Interstate 17 and serves clients throughout Glendale, the West Valley, greater Phoenix, and Arizona.
Local injury claims may arise from collisions on Glendale Avenue, Bell Road, Northern Avenue, Grand Avenue, or Loop 101; unsafe conditions at retail properties, apartment communities, and entertainment venues; or incidents near Westgate, State Farm Stadium, schools, parks, and residential neighborhoods.
When litigation is required, many Glendale personal injury cases proceed through the Maricopa County court system. Visitors can find general court information through the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County.
What Happens After You Contact Us?
Initial Consultation
We listen to what happened, ask questions about the accident and injuries, and identify immediate concerns such as medical treatment, insurance communications, evidence, and possible deadlines.
Case Review
An attorney reviews the available information, potentially responsible parties, insurance coverage, damages, and legal issues. Additional records may be needed before the firm can determine whether representation is appropriate.
Legal Strategy
We explain the available options, possible challenges, and recommended next steps. You will have an opportunity to ask questions before deciding how to proceed.
Representation
If the case is accepted and you hire the firm, the legal team begins the investigation and takes over appropriate communications, claim preparation, negotiation, and litigation work.
Frequently Asked Questions About Arizona Personal Injury Claims
Perez Law Group offers free personal injury consultations. When the firm accepts a case on a contingency-fee basis, there is no upfront attorney fee, and attorney fees are collected only if compensation is recovered. The contingency percentage, responsibility for litigation expenses, and other terms should be explained in the written fee agreement before representation begins.
Many Arizona personal injury actions are subject to a two-year statute of limitations, but shorter deadlines and exceptions may apply. Claims involving a public entity can require a formal notice within 180 days and may have a one-year lawsuit deadline. Medical malpractice, wrongful death, claims involving minors, and other matters may involve additional legal questions. An attorney should review the specific date and facts of your case.
Arizona generally applies comparative negligence. This means you may still be able to recover compensation when you share some responsibility, but your recovery may be reduced by the percentage of fault assigned to you. Insurance companies may attempt to shift more blame onto the injured person, which makes photographs, witness information, reports, expert analysis, and other evidence important.
There is no responsible way to determine a case’s value from the type of accident alone. Important factors include the severity and permanence of the injuries, medical treatment, future care, missed work, reduced earning ability, pain, disability, liability evidence, insurance limits, and the effect on daily life. The value can also change as treatment progresses and more information becomes available.
Many personal injury claims resolve through a negotiated settlement, but settlement is not guaranteed. A lawsuit may be necessary when an insurance company denies responsibility, disputes the injuries, undervalues the damages, or refuses to make a reasonable offer. Preparing a case carefully from the beginning can help whether it is ultimately settled or presented in court.
Accepting a settlement normally requires the injured person to release the responsible parties and insurer from additional liability. This can prevent the person from requesting more compensation if symptoms worsen or future treatment becomes necessary. Before accepting an offer, it is important to understand the medical prognosis, future costs, unpaid bills, insurance reimbursement claims, lost income, and the full terms of the release.
Bring whatever information you currently have, such as accident reports, photographs, witness information, insurance correspondence, medical records, bills, discharge instructions, pay information, and notes about your symptoms. Do not delay contacting an attorney merely because every document has not yet been collected. The legal team can explain what additional information may be needed.
Speak With a Glendale Personal Injury Lawyer
You do not have to manage a serious injury claim and an insurance company by yourself. Perez Law Group can review what happened, explain the legal options that may be available under Arizona law, and help you determine the appropriate next step.
Our Glendale personal injury attorneys represent people harmed in motor vehicle crashes, unsafe-property incidents, dog attacks, medical negligence cases, catastrophic accidents, and other preventable events. We also assist families whose loved ones died because of another party’s negligence.
Call (602) 730-7100 or request a free consultation online.
Perez Law Group, PLLC
7508 N. 59th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85301