Tempe Personal Injury Lawyers

Tempe Personal Injury Lawyers

Serving Tempe and the ASU Area

If you were seriously hurt in Tempe, a dense college city packed with traffic, pedestrians, and bikes, you have an injury firm that knows these roads and courts.

Our Arizona injury lawyers serve Tempe and the surrounding East Valley from our office in nearby Scottsdale.

Arizona law favors injured people in two ways the insurer will not mention: the state caps nothing on what your injury is worth, and you can recover even if you were partly at fault.

We take the serious cases, the crashes on the Broadway Curve and the Loop freeways, the pedestrian and bicycle injuries common around campus, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death.

 

For clients too badly hurt to travel, we come to the home or the hospital.

You pay nothing unless we win. Call (888) 713-6653 for a free, confidential review of your Tempe injury claim.

Why a Tempe Injury Claim Needs Local Knowledge

Where a crash happens in Tempe shapes how badly people are hurt and where the case is decided, and Tempe's density makes its risks distinct. A small city by land area holds a major university, an entertainment district, and several of the Valley's busiest freeways, and the crashes break down along those lines.

The Roads and the Broadway Curve

Tempe sits on top of some of the Valley's worst congestion: the I-10 Broadway Curve, the US-60 (Superstition), and the Loop 101 and Loop 202 interchanges. The Broadway Curve carries some of the heaviest traffic in the state, and high-speed rear-end and lane-change crashes there routinely produce serious injuries.

Students, Bikes, Scooters, and Light Rail

The dense mix of students, pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooters, and light rail along Apache Boulevard, Rural Road, University Drive, and Mill Avenue makes pedestrian and bicycle injuries especially common. Tens of thousands of people move around the ASU core on foot and on two wheels, sharing crossings with turning vehicles that often fail to yield.

Mill Avenue Nightlife and DUI

Mill Avenue's bar and entertainment district produces a steady stream of late-night DUI crashes. Where a bar or venue overserved an obviously intoxicated patron who then caused a crash, Arizona's dram shop law can put a share of the responsibility on the establishment as well as the driver.

The Darted-Out Defense

Tempe's worst cases are not random. Put tens of thousands of students on bikes, scooters, and crosswalks next to Mill Avenue traffic and the light rail, and the pattern repeats: a young pedestrian or cyclist, a driver who was not looking, and an insurer ready to argue the kid darted out. We know how that defense gets built, and how to take it apart.

Where a Tempe Case Is Decided

A Tempe injury lawsuit is filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, while Tempe Municipal Court handles traffic and city matters. When the at-fault party is the city or a public university, a shorter 180-day notice-of-claim deadline applies, which makes early action important. The county jury pool and procedure are a real factor in how a case is valued.

The Trauma Centers

Seriously injured Tempe crash victims are treated at Tempe St. Luke's Hospital, with Level I trauma care nearby at Banner Desert in Mesa and Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix. The trauma record from those first hours is the foundation that ties your injuries to the crash.

Tempe Injury Cases We Handle

We handle the full range of serious injury and death cases across Tempe and the East Valley, including car accidents, motorcycle crashes, truck collisions, pedestrian and bicycle injuries, slip and fall and other premises liability, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, and wrongful death. The pedestrian and bicycle injuries common around ASU are a particular focus, and we focus on the catastrophic cases that need real investigation.

How Arizona Law Helps Your Tempe Claim

Arizona caps nothing. The state constitution bars any law limiting injury or wrongful death damages, so a catastrophic Tempe injury is valued on the actual harm, not a statutory ceiling. See Arizona damage caps.

You recover even if you were partly at fault. Under pure comparative negligence, A.R.S. § 12-2505, your recovery is reduced by your share of fault but never barred.^[1] This matters in the pedestrian and bicycle cases the insurer tries hardest to blame on the victim. See Arizona comparative negligence.

Most Tempe injury claims must be filed within two years under A.R.S. § 12-542, and a claim against a city or county requires a notice of claim within just 180 days.^[2] See the Arizona statute of limitations, and call early so evidence can be preserved.