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One of the most complex and often confusing areas of personal injury law is wrongful death. The following offers a brief explanation of: What wrongful death is in Arizona; Who can bring a wrongful death claim; The time frame in which a wrongful death claim must be filed; and The damages are available in…

Nursing homes generally have a good idea of when they are about to be sued for negligence in an abuse and neglect case. They know that your loved one’s medical records could help form the basis for your claim. Thus, they will not go out of their way to make sure that you have…

Medical malpractice lawsuits are among the more complicated types of personal injury cases. After all, you are taking the jury back to the doctor’s office or operating room and trying to convince a group of people without medical training that a doctor made a mistake that caused your injuries. Nonetheless, an experienced medical malpractice…

While the general legal principles in medical malpractice cases are the same across states, each jurisdiction will have specific laws that affect these cases. Arizona has its own rules that apply to cases filed in the state, including one that clearly helps victims of medical malpractice fully recover for their injuries. To receive the…

Families trust nursing home caregivers to take adequate care of their loved ones, but that isn’t always the case. As high as 90 percent of nursing homes in the U.S. are too understaffed to provide adequate care to all of their residents. Caregivers may neglect or even mistreat their patients – causing them long-term…

We trust our medical professionals to provide well-informed advice and care to us, but some of them fail to meet the standard of care that is expected of them. In fact, by the age of 65, a jarring 99 percent of physicians in high-risk services will face a medical malpractice claim.  Medical malpractice is…

Sure – a customer could file a lawsuit in Arizona against a business alleging that its premature opening, or irresponsible business practices, caused the customer to catch COVID-19. But the more important question — at least from most experienced trial lawyers’ perspective — is whether such a lawsuit is likely to be successful. Or would it…

Lane splitting is a term applied to motorcyclists that drive between two lanes of traffic heading in the same direction. A motorcyclist might lane split, for example, to bypass lanes of slowed traffic. Since the legalization of lane splitting in the neighboring state of California (the first state in the country to officially make…

As traumatic as sexual abuse against a child may be, until recently, an additional heartbreak and injustice often resulted from the law itself. In Arizona, prior to May 2019, the time limit was generally two years from the child’s 18th birthday to file a lawsuit against a sexual predator or organization that employed or…

No. BUT – this is a trick question. There is no such thing as an “employee” who is also an “independent contractor.” It is one or the other. If someone is truly an “employee” acting within the course and scope of employment when they cause an injury to an innocent third party, then the…