Arizona Medical Malpractice Settlement Calculator
Estimate a medical malpractice settlement under Arizona law. The calculator applies this jurisdiction's own comparative fault rule and damages ceilings, and every figure below is the one our verified data holds, with the statute behind it and the date we checked it.
What Arizona law does to your claim
Four things in state law shape a malpractice claim: how long you have to file, what must happen before you file, what happens if you were partly at fault, and whether the state puts a ceiling on what a jury can award. Here is what we hold for this one.
Arizona uses pure comparative fault.
A.R.S. § 12-2505·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Ariz. Const. art. 2, § 31·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Ariz. Const. art. 2, § 31·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
With the claim, a written statement certifying whether expert testimony is needed; where it is, a preliminary expert opinion affidavit served with the initial disclosures. A.R.S. § 12-2603(A), (B) reads: “If a claim against a health care professional is asserted in a civil action, the claimant or the party designating a nonparty at fault or its attorney shall certify in a written statement that is filed and served with the claim or the designation of nonparty at fault whether or not expert opinion testimony is necessary to prove the health care professional's standard of care or liability for the claim.” and “If the claimant or the party designating a nonparty at fault or its attorney certifies pursuant to subsection H of this section that expert opinion testimony is necessary, the claimant shall serve a preliminary expert opinion affidavit with the initial disclosures that are required by rule 26.1, Arizona rules of civil procedure.” We read this section only, so it is not a complete list of what Arizona requires before a suit.
A.R.S. § 12-2603(A), (B)·Last reviewed 2026-10-16
None on record means our verified data holds no figure of this kind for this state. It is not a finding that no limit could apply to your claim.
What partial fault costs you in Arizona
The same claim, fracture with surgery, several months of recovery, run through the calculator above four times, with nothing changed but the share of fault assigned to the claimant. The numbers are the engine's output, not an editorial claim about what these cases are worth.
One case, run through the calculator above four times with only the claimant's share of fault changed, under Arizona law. No coverage ceiling is applied, because we would be inventing the at-fault party's policy. These shares illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your own fault.
Every Arizona deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Arizona periods in our verified data, with the statute behind each one. A deadline is the outside limit, never a target, and other rules can shorten it.
A.R.S. § 12-542(1)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorA.R.S. § 12-542(1)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorA.R.S. § 12-542(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorA.R.S. § 23-1061(A)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorA.R.S. § 12-541(5); §§ 11-1020, 11-1025·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the dog bite calculatorArizona against the rest of the country
Every count below is read from our state-law data across all 51 jurisdictions, so it moves when the data does. What you will not find here is an average settlement figure: the only one we could compute is a model, and a model presented as a measurement is not a fact.
- 11 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply the pure comparative negligence rule, and Arizona is one of them.
- Its 2 years to file is the same as the most common deadline in the country, which 31 jurisdictions use. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 4 years.
- We have read the official text of 26 jurisdictions' rules on what must come before a malpractice suit, and 25 of them require something: a notice to the provider, an expert's affidavit, certificate or opinion, or a review panel. Arizona is one of them.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data and Arizona is not among them, so an estimate here is not held down by a ceiling we hold.
Comparisons are drawn from the legal levers that actually move a case value, not from closed-case data, which we do not hold. See the full methodology
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Every document behind our state injury law figures, each linked with the date we last read it, is listed on our State Injury Law research sources page.