If you were hurt in a wrongful death in Tempe, Sher Law Group is ready to help. We represent injured Tempe residents across Arizona, and you pay nothing unless we win.
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A serious wrongful death in Tempe can leave you facing medical bills, lost income, and an insurance company working to pay you as little as possible. You don’t have to face any of it alone.
Sher Law Group represents Tempe residents injured through no fault of their own. From your first call, you work directly with your attorney, never a rotating case manager, and we handle the insurance company so you can focus on healing. We’re available around the clock, and there’s no fee unless we win your case.
If you or a loved one was hurt in a wrongful death in Tempe, contact Sher Law Group for a free, no-obligation case review. You owe nothing unless we win.
Arizona’s wrongful death statute (A.R.S. §§ 12-611 to 12-613) lets a surviving spouse, children, or parents, in that priority, bring a single claim for a Tempe family’s loss. A separate survival action (A.R.S. § 14-3110) recovers the deceased’s own pre-death losses. The deadline is generally two years from the date of death (A.R.S. § 12-542).
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Arizona sets a priority: surviving spouse first, then children, then parents; if none, the estate’s personal representative files (A.R.S. § 12-612).
Generally two years from the date of death (A.R.S. § 12-542); a government-entity claim requires a Notice of Claim within 180 days.
With ASU and dense nightlife around Mill Avenue, Tempe sees a high rate of pedestrian and bicycle collisions alongside its freeway crashes.
High-traffic corridors where we frequently see wrongful deaths in Tempe include I-10, US 60, Loop 101, Loop 202, and busy surface streets like Mill Avenue and Rural Road. Serious wrongful death injury claims arising in Tempe are generally litigated in the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Tempe is the densest city in Arizona and its injury pattern reflects that: Arizona State University concentrates pedestrian, bicycle, and scooter traffic around Mill Avenue, Apache Boulevard, and University Drive, and the light rail line runs at street level through the middle of it. Cases are filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, and a claim against the City of Tempe requires a notice of claim within 180 days under A.R.S. § 12-821.01. Mill Avenue’s bar district drives a higher rate of late-night pedestrian and impaired-driving collisions than surrounding cities, and shared e-scooters add a category of claim where liability may involve the rider, a driver, and the scooter operator.