Tempe Personal Injury Lawyer

Tempe Personal Injury Lawyer

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In short: The Ruiz Law Firm reviews Tempe injury claims from 222 S Mill Ave Ste 800, Tempe, AZ 85281. Lawrence Ruiz is admitted in Arizona; confirm current status in the State Bar of Arizona member directory. Call (725) 485-3301 or request a callback. There is no attorney fee unless we recover money for you. This page stays out of search indexes until the firm approves indexing.

A Tempe office for Tempe injury claims

The Arizona office is on South Mill Avenue in downtown Tempe, on the same corridor as ASU's edge of campus. We serve Tempe from 222 S Mill Ave Ste 800, Tempe, AZ 85281. There is no Phoenix office and no Scottsdale office.

Lawrence Ruiz is the attorney named for this Arizona work. Arizona admission is confirmed; this page cites the State Bar of Arizona member directory instead of publishing an Arizona bar number. Google Business Profile verification for the Tempe listing is pending. This page does not claim a Maps-pack ranking, a review count, or Arizona case results.

Tempe office hours are not published here. Call (725) 485-3301 or use the callback form. Site CTAs are call or callback only.

The Arizona injury hub lists this Tempe NAP and the other Arizona pages in this slice.

What a Tempe personal injury claim can cover

This is the broad Tempe injury page: car crashes plus the other negligence claims the firm already handles, evaluated under Arizona statutes — not Nevada rules copied onto an Arizona URL.

A personal injury claim is not a police report, and it is not the same thing as an "injury crash" in a traffic table. It is a civil claim for losses that follow someone else's negligence: medical bills, time off work, future care, and the non-economic harm those records help prove.

Claims we review from the Tempe office include:

• Tempe car accident claims
• Motorcycle claims — Phoenix motorcycle accident lawyer
• Commercial truck claims — Phoenix truck accident lawyer
• Pedestrian claims — Phoenix pedestrian accident lawyer
• Bicycle claims — Phoenix bike accident lawyer
• Rideshare claims — Phoenix rideshare accident lawyer
• Slip-and-fall and unsafe-property claims (no separate Tempe URL in this slice)
• Brain and spinal injuries (no separate Tempe URL in this slice)
• Wrongful death — Phoenix wrongful death lawyer

This slice does not add Tempe-only truck, motorcycle, or similar landing pages. If the wreck was a Tempe car crash, use the car page. If it was another mode in the Phoenix metro, use that Phoenix practice URL and still come to the Tempe office.

Tempe crash numbers are not the same as injury claims

ADOT's 2024 Motor Vehicle Crash Facts jurisdiction table (PDF; landing azdot.gov Crash Facts) reports for Tempe:

• 6,637 total crashes
• 29 fatal crashes
• 32 persons killed
• 3,007 persons injured
• 295 alcohol-related crashes

Statewide in the same report: 54,426 injured; 1,228 killed; 2,079 pedestrian crashes; 1,379 bicycle crashes; 3,036 motorcycle crashes.

Those figures count people injured or killed in reported motor-vehicle crashes. They are not a count of personal injury lawsuits, insurance claims, or cases this firm has filed. The city table also does not split passenger cars from other modes.

Tempe roads, without a crash-by-crash list

Tempe Vision Zero is the city's program to cut fatal and serious-injury crashes. Injured callers from Tempe often name Mill Avenue, Baseline Road, Rural Road, McClintock Drive, or Rio Salado Parkway — the arterials that frame downtown, campus, and the Loop 202 / US-60 / I-10 / Loop 101 edge. This page is about the claim after the injury: bills, fault, and deadlines. For Tempe car-crash corridors and the city's listed photo-enforcement intersections, use the Tempe car accident lawyer page.

Medical bills, nearby emergency care, and records

Most injury values are built from medical records, not from a crash diagram alone. Emergency care, imaging, follow-up visits, therapy, work restrictions, and a physician's prognosis are what show the injury's cost over time. Signing a release before that picture is clear can leave future care uncompensated.

HonorHealth Tempe Medical Center is at 1500 S Mill Ave, Tempe, AZ 85281 — on the same Mill Avenue corridor as the office. It is an emergency department and hospital campus. It is not a Level I trauma center on the Arizona Department of Health Services designated trauma list.

East Valley Level I trauma care is listed at Banner Desert Medical Center, 1400 S Dobson Rd, Mesa, AZ 85202 (same AZDHS list).

The firm is not affiliated with either hospital. This page does not say crash victims "are taken to" a named facility. Where you were treated is a fact in your chart; it is not a recommendation and it is not proof of liability.

Arizona's two-year clock for injury to the person

A.R.S. § 12-542 is titled Injury to person; injury when death ensues; injury to property; conversion of property; forcible entry and forcible detainer; two year limitation. Subsection (1) covers "injuries done to the person of another":

Except as provided in section 12-551 there shall be commenced and prosecuted within two years after the cause of action accrues, and not afterward, the following actions:

1. For injuries done to the person of another including causes of action for medical malpractice as defined in section 12-561.

That is a lawsuit deadline, not a reason to wait two years. Video, vehicle data, and witness names often disappear in days. Insurers still call early. If death ensues from the injuries, subsection (2) treats the action as accruing at death — use the Phoenix wrongful death page rather than treating this page as a death-claim primer.

Pure comparative fault, not a 51% cutoff

Arizona's comparative-negligence statute is A.R.S. § 12-2505:

The defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of risk is in all cases a question of fact and shall at all times be left to the jury. If the jury applies either defense, the claimant's action is not barred, but the full damages shall be reduced in proportion to the relative degree of the claimant's fault which is a proximate cause of the injury or death, if any. There is no right to comparative negligence in favor of any claimant who has intentionally, wilfully or wantonly caused or contributed to the injury or wrongful death.

The claim is not barred because you share fault; damages are reduced by your percentage. The statute also withholds comparative-negligence rights from a claimant who intentionally, wilfully, or wantonly caused or contributed to the injury. This page does not promise that a person found mostly at fault "still recovers." That would editorialize the text.

Nevada injury claims use a different fault rule. For Nevada law, see our personal injury lawyers page — that is the Nevada counterpart, not a second Arizona address.

Shorter clocks when a public entity may be involved

If a city, county, state, or public employee may be a defendant (a city vehicle, some roadway-design theories, a public-transit collision), Arizona adds earlier steps. A.R.S. § 12-821.01 requires a notice of claim within 180 days after accrual and a specific settlement amount. A.R.S. § 12-821 then limits the lawsuit against a public entity or public employee to one year. That is a caution, not a diagnosis that your Tempe crash is a government claim.

Wrongful death is a different statute

When a death is alleged to have been caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, liability and who may sue live in A.R.S. § 12-611 and A.R.S. § 12-612. The two-year clock when death ensues is § 12-542(2). Families should use the Phoenix wrongful death lawyer page; this Tempe injury page only points there.

Where a Tempe injury lawsuit is filed

Tempe is in Maricopa County. Civil injury actions of $10,000 or more (excluding interest, costs, and attorney fees) go to Maricopa County Superior Court, not Justice Court (lawsuit guide). There is no Tempe Superior Court campus for civil trials.

The downtown complex is 201 W Jefferson St, Phoenix, AZ 85003. Civil hearings are heard downtown even if paperwork is dropped at another counter (CVC1 packet). Attorney e-filing is required in civil cases (clerk civil filing).

A Tempe address on this page is the law office. It is not the courthouse.

How we start a Tempe injury file

We ask where the injury happened, what medical care you have had, which insurers have called, what work you missed, and what photos, reports, or witness names still exist. Fee terms are contingency: no attorney fee unless we recover money for you. Court costs and litigation expenses are explained in writing before representation. Results in other states do not guarantee an Arizona outcome; this page does not publish Arizona verdicts.

Call (725) 485-3301 or request a free consultation.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have to file a personal injury lawsuit in Arizona?

Many injury-to-the-person lawsuits must be commenced within two years after the cause of action accrues under A.R.S. § 12-542(1). Public-entity claims can have a 180-day notice and a one-year suit deadline. Evidence can disappear much sooner than any of those clocks.

What if I was partly at fault for a Tempe injury?

A.R.S. § 12-2505 is pure comparative negligence: the claim is not barred, but damages are reduced by the claimant's percentage of fault. There is no comparative-negligence right if the claimant intentionally, wilfully, or wantonly caused or contributed to the injury. Insurers still argue fault; the statute does not make those arguments true.

Where is The Ruiz Law Firm's Arizona office?

222 S Mill Ave Ste 800, Tempe, AZ 85281. We serve Tempe from this office. There is no Phoenix or Scottsdale address. Google Business Profile verification is pending. Call (725) 485-3301. Hours for the Tempe office are not listed on this page.

Is Lawrence Ruiz admitted in Arizona?

Arizona admission is confirmed. Confirm current status in the State Bar of Arizona member directory. An Arizona bar number is not published here. His bio is at Lawrence Ruiz.

Where are Tempe personal injury lawsuits heard?

Maricopa County Superior Court for civil claims of $10,000 or more, downtown Phoenix at 201 W Jefferson St. See the Superior Court lawsuit guide and CVC1. Tempe cases are still Maricopa County cases.

Is HonorHealth Tempe a Level I trauma center?

No. HonorHealth Tempe Medical Center at 1500 S Mill Ave is an emergency department and hospital campus and is not on the AZDHS Level I list. Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa is the East Valley Level I facility named on this page. The firm is not affiliated with either hospital.