The Phoenix personal injury lawyers at Ables & Annes, represent people injured in a variety of situations: motor vehicle (e.g., car, truck, taxi, Uber, Lyft, bus, bicycle, motorcycle, etc.) or pedestrian accidents, brain injury, slip-and-fall, trip-and-fall, dog bite, and burn injury, as well as wrongful death and workers' compensation. Most personal injury lawsuits are brought under a theory of negligence, but some are pursued under theories of strict liability or intentional misconduct. In order to establish negligence, you will need to show four elements. These are a duty of care by the defendant, a breach of the duty of care, causation, and damages. Often, a defendant claims that the plaintiff was partially or fully to blame for the accident. Arizona follows the rule of pure comparative negligence, which means that you can still recover damages even if you were to blame to some degree, no matter how great.