Gilbert Personal Injury Lawyer

Arizona follows a pure comparative fault system. If you were injured on the US-60, the Loop 202, or any East Valley road, you can still recover compensation even if you were partly at fault — your recovery is reduced by your percentage of fault rather than eliminated. Rear-end collisions on the freeway corridors are among the most common cases our Gilbert office handles, and fault allocation is often a central part of those claims.

Most Arizona personal injury claims must be filed within two years of the accident. Some situations carry shorter deadlines — for example, claims involving a government entity can require formal notice much sooner — so the safest step after any serious accident is to have your specific deadline confirmed early.

Arizona's distracted driving law also changed in 2026. As of September 12, 2026, the fine for a repeat handheld-device violation increased to $400, and watching, recording, or streaming video while driving is now prohibited even in hands-free mode. When a distracted driver causes a crash, the citation can become important evidence in the injury claim — our attorneys review the police report and any citations as part of every case evaluation.

Gilbert's family neighborhoods — Power Ranch, Seville, Layton Lakes, and the Val Vista corridor — generate a steady volume of dog bite cases, and Arizona's dog bite law is among the strictest in the country in favor of injury victims.

Under Arizona's strict liability statute, a dog's owner is responsible when their dog bites someone in a public place or while the victim is lawfully on private property — regardless of whether the dog had ever bitten anyone before. Arizona has no "one free bite" rule. The main defense available to an owner is provocation, and disputes over what happened before a bite are common, which makes early documentation important.

One deadline is worth knowing: a dog bite claim brought under the strict liability statute must be filed within one year of the bite — half the time allowed for most other Arizona injury claims. A claim can also be brought on a negligence theory with the standard two-year deadline, but the strongest version of a dog bite case often depends on acting within that first year. Children are the most frequent victims in the cases we see, and claims involving minors have their own timing rules — another reason an early, free case review matters.