Arizona Personal Injury Laws

My name is Mack Jones and I’m a personal injury attorney at Jones Raczkowski, PC here in Phoenix, Arizona. You’ve received a notice of lien in the mail. It could have come from any of a number of sources – a hospital, an insurance company, Medicare, Medicare Advantage plan, even your employer. Just because they have sent you a lien form does not mean that they actually have lien rights. Lien rights are where a third party – insurance company, hospital, Medicare – is entitled to recover what they have paid out in the event you make a personal injury recovery. If you don’t make a recovery, they’re not entitled to be repaid.

So the first thing is, don’t worry about it. You only have to worry about it if you get money on your personal injury claim. Second, equally important, is just because they’re asserted does not mean that they’re all legitimate. That’s why you need a competent and reputable personal injury attorney to navigate through and deal with these liens, because just because people assert that they have them doesn’t mean that they’re legitimate. If you have questions about a personal injury case or a lien, please contact us at Jones Raczkowski, (602) 840-8787.

By: Mack Jones

Phoenix Personal Injury

Dog Bites, assault and battery, motor vehicle collisions, premises liability, slip and fall, wrongful death actions and medical malpractice. Each of these cases can involve many types of claims, theories and principals. If you have suffered a personal injury it is important that you speak with a personal injury attorney as soon as possible. If you have questions or would like to know more about personal injury, contact me at (602) 385-6818 or email me.

By: Jess Lorona

Attorney Thomas M. Richardson

I’ve been practicing law here in the Phoenix area and in Greater Arizona area for the last 15 years. I do mainly trial work and a lot of the cases that I have – are able to settle before they go to trial.

A personal injury attorney is a moniker, really, attached to trial lawyers. What I always wanted to do is trial law. I do a lot of jury psychology studies, a lot of jury strategy studies, in an effort to be a good trial lawyer. So when I am a personal injury attorney, it’s actually being a trial lawyer.

By: Thomas Richardson

Bicycle Accidents in Phoenix

I’m a bicycle enthusiast. I know how unsafe the roads are for bicyclers. You’re riding along, the car ahead of you is stopped, looks off one direction, doesn’t look back your way. You got trouble. You’ve now just been run over. Happens all the time. I represented a lady not to long ago with an accident just like that. I got her more than a million dollars. Now she was deserving of every penny, because her injuries were significant and severe.

Insurance Companies

A lot of times insurance companies want to blame you because you’re on the bicycle. Well you know what, a lot of times they’re wrong, and they may just be saying that because they’re hoping you go away.

Wattel & York

Well, you give us a call, and let us evaluate the liability on that claim, and who’s really responsible. Often times, it’s not you, the bicyclist. We’ll help you get your medical care and thereafter, we’ll make sure that insurance company pays you what you’re due. Either voluntarily, or if necessary, to litigate.

By: David Wattel

Contingent Fee Basis

In Arizona, personal injury cases are handled on a contingent fee basis, which means that we agree not to charge you for any attorney’s fees, until we settle your personal injury case or win it at trial or arbitration. We are counting on our abilities just like you, our clients do. If we recover nothing, you pay no attorney’s fees. Certain costs may remain the responsibility of the client. Costs in personal injury case include expenses such as the filing fee, service of process, expert witnesses, medical records, copying and mailing charges and other expenses deemed necessary to pursue your personal injury lawsuit.

Personal Injury Cases

Personal Injury cases include any and all vehicle accidents, wrongful death, slip and fall, dog bite and many others. Our firm handles all of these cases on a contingent fee basis. If you have any questions or would like to know more about your personal injury, contact me at (602) 385-6818 or email me.

By: Jess Lorona

My name is Mack Jones. I’m an attorney at the personal injury law firm of Jones Raczkowski, here in Phoenix, Arizona. How is compensation determined for a significant personal injury? It’s determined in two ways. First, the percentage of fault that the defendant bears is determined. Secondly, one’s damages. There are two components to damages – at least, that’s how lawyers look at it. First component is what we call special damages. Those are your out-of-pocket expenses, lost wages, and your medical bills. Those can be arithmetically calculated. But if somebody came up to a person and said, “I will pay your lost wages, and I’ll pay your medical bills, and we’re square,” most people would say, “That’s not fair.” The other component of personal injury damages are general damages. It’s what laypeople call, “pain and suffering.” But it’s not just physical pain and suffering.

It is permanency. If you have permanency, how an injury affects you in terms of your work, your hobbies, your life, any scarring, any physical disfigurement. Those are the types of things that different people have different attitudes and different values on. That’s why, when somebody comes to you and says, “How much is my case worth?” it’s very difficult to determine unless you’re experienced and you’ve done those types of cases in the past. If you’ve had a serious personal injury, please contact me at Jones Raczkowski, (602) 840-8787.

By: Mack Jones

My name is Mark Raczkowski. I’m an attorney at Jones Raczkowski PC in Phoenix, Arizona. The biggest difference between slip and fall cases and other personal injury cases is that most of the time the defendants deny that they’re responsible for your injuries. As a result you have to sue them in order to get the compensation you deserve. My office has spent more than (25) years focusing on slip and fall/trip and fall cases. So we’re prepared to sue defendants if necessary in order to get the compensation that you deserve. It means we’re able– we’re willing to put in the time and the effort that it will take to prosecute the case and to achieve a satisfactory result for you. If you’ve suffered a serious injury as a result of a slip and fall or trip and fall accident, contact me through my website at www.azpremiseslaw.com.

By: Mark Raczkowski

My name is Mark Raczkowski. I’m an attorney at Jones Rackzowski PC in Phoenix, Arizona. Cases resolve at different times depending on what type of case that they are. A case that has relatively uncomplicated issues with minor injuries might resolve within a few months, whereas a case that has complicated issues and very serious injuries might take more than a couple years to resolve. What’s important to know is that my office, my firm, will work as hard as we can to get your case resolved as soon as it can reasonably be done. if you have questions about how long it might take your case to resolve, reach me through my website at www.azpremesislaw.com.

By: Mark Raczkowski

My name is Mack Jones and I’m a personal injury attorney here in Phoenix, Arizona at Jones Raczkowski PC. You’ve been injured and now you’re receiving bills and typically you’re going to continue receiving bills and you’re going to receive repeated medical bills from the same provider. That is stressful, no matter who you are. There are ways that we at Jones Raczkowski can help.

First, you should process your bills as you normally would. If you have group health, process them through group health.

Second, if they will be included in any potential claim that is made on your behalf, as against the purported defendant, reclaim the face amount of the bills, not the reduced amount of the bills. Not your copay, not your deductible. The face amount of what the bill was as asserted by the provider.

Third, only attorneys practicing in premises liability generally are going to have an awareness. And particularly in premises liability there may be medical payments coverage available simply because you fell on somebody else’s property. That’s not fault-based insurance. It’s no-fault based insurance and it’s called medical payments, and it can be up to $5000 or $10000 just because you fell on somebody else’s property. But you need an attorney, typically, to find out whether that coverage exists. If that coverage does exist, we’ll get that coverage for you and we won’t charge a fee on that. Call us at Jones Raczkowski PC, 602-840-8787.

By: Mack Jones