Phoenix Government Vehicle Accidents Attorney - Kelly Law Team

Personal Injury Attorney John Kelly discusses the reasons you’ll need to hire an experienced attorney who is familiar with the unique procedures of filing a Notice of Claim with the City or State if you or a loved one has been injured in an accident involving a Government Vehicle in Phoenix, Arizona. If you need an experienced law firm to help you recover your losses, contact the Kelly Law Firm for a free consultation and case evaluation. John Kelly Kelly Law Team One East Washington Street Suite #1520 Phoenix, AZ 85004 602-283-4122 https://www.jkphoenixpersonalinjuryat... Hello, this is John Kelly of the Kelly Law Team, and I want to talk to you about Government Vehicle Accidents. If you've been involved with an accident that a government vehicle has caused, there are some unique circumstances that you need to be aware of. The most important thing is that there is actually a claim that needs to be made against the state or local government within a certain period of time, and in Arizona, that comes up very quickly. So it's important to call an attorney in these cases to make sure that you're putting together the right claim very quickly. These are typically called a Notice of Claim, and you don't have a year, you don't have two years. You have less than that. You have six months to make them. So your attorney is going to need to work quickly to put together that Notice of Claim against the government to put them on notice that you may have a lawsuit later. Now, some of the things that you need to do also is gather as much evidence very quickly in these cases to make sure that you are able to articulate to the government how much you're hoping to recover. If you want to maximize your recovery, you want to make sure that you're getting the police reports immediately, you are taking photographs, getting witness statements, establishing liability as solidly as possible, so that when you make that Notice of Claim, you have everything in there. A unique thing about a Notice of Claim is that you have to tell the government entity a sum certain that you would be willing to settle for. So you also have to have an idea of what your injuries are. To get your injuries in perspective, you need to make sure that you're getting your medical records from the hospital. Hospitals often take a long time to get those records to you, so you want to order the hospital records right away, and then get follow-up treatment to make sure you're getting the right diagnosis, so you know what your future medical costs might be, so that you're able to make that sum certain to the government. If you have a Notice of Claim case, and you would like to talk it over, if you have a government case, there was a government vehicle involved, whether it be a bus or a city bus or a train that you were on that was owned by the city or a United States Postal Service. Any of these are going to be government claims. So if you need to talk those over, give us a call, 602-283-4122.