If you were hurt in a wrongful death in Tolleson, Sher Law Group is ready to help. We represent injured Tolleson residents across Arizona, and you pay nothing unless we win.
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A serious wrongful death in Tolleson 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 Tolleson 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 Tolleson, 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 Tolleson 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). Most Arizona injury claims must be filed within two years of the incident (A.R.S. § 12-542), and a claim involving a city, county or the state requires a formal notice of claim within 180 days (A.R.S. § 12-821.01). Because Arizona applies pure comparative negligence, an insurer assigning you part of the blame reduces what you recover rather than ending the claim, which is why adjusters raise it early. Consultations are free and there is no fee unless we win.
Arizona wrongful death statute: who can file →
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.
Heavy freight and warehouse truck traffic around the I-10 corridor shapes the crash profile in Tolleson.
High-traffic corridors where we frequently see wrongful deaths in Tolleson include I-10, 91st Avenue, and Van Buren Street. Serious wrongful death injury claims arising in Tolleson are generally litigated in the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Tolleson is its own incorporated city in Maricopa County, entirely surrounded by Phoenix and Avondale, which makes identifying the correct public-entity defendant genuinely easy to get wrong. A claim against the City of Tolleson requires a notice of claim within 180 days under A.R.S. § 12-821.01, and cases are filed in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tolleson is one of the densest freight and food-distribution hubs in the Valley, with warehouse and refrigerated trucking concentrated around 91st Avenue, Van Buren, and the I-10 corridor. Commercial truck involvement is far more common here than the county average, which brings federal motor carrier rules and corporate defendants into otherwise ordinary collision claims.
We represent clients across the surrounding communities too, including wrongful death claims in Verrado and wrongful death claims in Phoenix.