Our Salt Lake City personal injury lawyers at Parker & McConkie help people seriously injured by someone else's negligence pursue the compensation they deserve. Our team can investigate what happened, document your losses, deal with insurance companies, and fight for your rights through settlement negotiations or trial.
Our attorneys handle car and truck crashes, pedestrian and bicycle accidents, dangerous property claims, and other serious injury cases throughout Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County.
After an accident, you are likely dealing with medical treatment, time away from work, and an insurance company asking questions before you fully understand what your injuries will mean for your future. Our role is to take the legal burden off your shoulders by building a strong injury claim while you focus on your medical recovery.
Consultations are free, and our attorneys handle personal injury cases on a contingency fee basis. You pay no attorneys’ fees unless we recover compensation for you.
Call 801-845-0440 today to talk with our team about your case.
What Does a Salt Lake City Personal Injury Lawyer Cost?
Nothing upfront. Our Salt Lake City personal injury attorneys work on a contingency fee basis, meaning our attorneys' fees are a percentage of the compensation we recover for you. This arrangement allows all injured people to hire our experienced legal team without paying an hourly fee while medical bills and other expenses continue to accumulate.
During your free consultation, our team can further explain the fee agreement and any potential case expenses before you decide whether to partner with us.
How Do You Choose the Best Personal Injury Lawyer in Salt Lake City for Your Accident Case?
There is no single lawyer who is objectively "best" for every injured person. A better question is whether the attorneys you are considering have the experience, resources, past results, and litigation ability your particular case requires.
For a serious injury claim, consider whether the lawyers:
- Regularly represent people with your type of injury or accident claim.
- Have documented results in significant personal injury cases.
- Have the resources to investigate and litigate complex liability and damages.
- Prepare cases for litigation rather than relying exclusively on settlement negotiations.
- Communicate clearly about the case, its risks, and the client's options.
At Parker & McConkie, our attorneys have successfully represented thousands of people in complex personal injury cases. Past results do not guarantee what will happen in your case, but they do demonstrate our experience handling high-stakes claims in which careful investigation, significant damages, and litigation readiness matter.
What Our Salt Lake City Injury Lawyers Do After You Choose Parker & McConkie
Hiring a lawyer should accomplish more than transferring phone calls from an insurance adjuster to a law office. Our attorneys begin by identifying what must be proven and what evidence can establish it.
Depending on the case, that may mean obtaining surveillance footage before it is deleted, inspecting vehicles or equipment, interviewing witnesses, reviewing medical records, identifying additional insurance coverage, or bringing in qualified experts.
As the case develops, our team can:
- Investigate how the injury occurred and identify responsible parties.
- Preserve physical, electronic, photographic, and documentary evidence.
- Gather and organize medical documentation.
- Evaluate lost income and potential future financial losses.
- Communicate and negotiate directly with insurance carriers.
- Work with medical, accident reconstruction, economic, or other professionals when appropriate.
- File a lawsuit and present the case at trial when settlement negotiations do not produce a fair resolution.
Insurance companies evaluate evidence. They also evaluate risk. A thoroughly documented claim prepared by attorneys willing to litigate can present a very different risk than an unsupported demand for money.
If you are unsure whether you need an attorney, a free consultation gives you an opportunity to explain what happened and learn how our team would approach the claim before you make that decision.
What Types of Personal Injury Cases Do We Handle in Salt Lake City?
Our personal injury attorneys in Salt Lake City represent people injured in many types of preventable accidents, including:
- Car, motorcycle, bicycle, and pedestrian accidents.
- Commercial truck and semi-truck collisions.
- Slip and fall and other premises liability incidents.
- Dog bites and animal attacks.
- Construction and worksite accidents involving third-party negligence.
- Traumatic brain, spinal cord, and other catastrophic injuries.
- Defective product claims.
The legal strategy changes with the accident. For example, a commercial truck case may require gathering electronic logging information, trucking-company records, vehicle data, and federal safety evidence.
A premises liability case may depend on surveillance footage and records showing how long a dangerous condition existed. A catastrophic injury case may require medical and economic evidence to address losses expected decades into the future.
Our attorneys build the investigation around the specific claim rather than treating every personal injury case as an interchangeable insurance matter. We listen to your story and tailor our strategy to produce the best possible outcome for you.
How Does the Personal Injury Claim Process Work in Utah?
Most personal injury cases begin with investigation and medical documentation, followed by filing a claim and settlement negotiations. Litigation may become necessary when liability is disputed or the responsible insurer refuses to offer a reasonable resolution.
We Investigate Quickly Before Evidence Disappears
Evidence can have a much shorter lifespan than Utah's statute of limitations. Security footage may be overwritten within days or weeks. Vehicles are repaired. Businesses discard records according to retention schedules. Accident scenes change, and witnesses become more difficult to locate. Our attorneys identify potentially important evidence and take the necessary steps to preserve it.
We Document More Than Your Medical Bills
Medical bills tell us what your treatment costs. They do not necessarily tell us what an injury costs you.
A serious injury can affect your ability to work, care for your family, drive, exercise, sleep, participate in hobbies, or live independently. Some injuries require future surgery or rehabilitation. Others reduce earning capacity long after someone returns to work.
Building a strong damages claim means connecting medical evidence to those real-world consequences and calculating what future medical expenses you may incur.
We Negotiate From the Evidence
Once we understand your injuries and expected future needs, our attorneys can present a demand supported by evidence of liability and damages. While many cases resolve through negotiation, sometimes we need to be ready to litigate.
If the insurer disputes responsibility or refuses to fairly evaluate the losses, our lawyers can move the claim into litigation rather than accepting an inadequate offer to finalize the case.
What Is a Salt Lake City Personal Injury Case Worth?
There is no reliable average injury settlement that can explain what your claim is worth. Its value depends on the injuries you suffered, available evidence, your financial and personal losses, applicable insurance, and the strength of the liability case.
Two people involved in similar crashes can have dramatically different claims. Consider a person who fractures a leg, undergoes surgery, misses several months of work, and develops permanent mobility restrictions. That claim raises very different damages questions than a claim involving an injury that resolves after several weeks of treatment.
A serious claim may need to address:
| Effect of the Injury | Potential Losses |
| Medical consequences | Emergency care, surgery, rehabilitation, medication, and future treatment |
| Work consequences | Lost wages, missed opportunities, and reduced earning capacity |
| Long-term limitations | Disability, assistive equipment, home modifications, or personal care |
| Daily-life consequences | Pain, emotional distress, loss of activities, and reduced quality of life |
| Property losses | Repair or replacement of qualifying damaged property |
An insurer's quick settlement offer may arrive before some of these losses can be fully measured. That is why our attorneys want to understand your medical prognosis and future needs before recommending that you resolve a serious injury claim.
Why an Insurance Company's First Offer May Not Reflect Your Full Losses
An insurer does not need to deny liability to undervalue a case. Sometimes the central disagreement is not who caused the accident, but what the accident has actually cost the injured person.
An adjuster may accept that its policyholder caused a crash but argue that your treatment was excessive, your surgery resulted from a pre-existing condition, time away from work was unnecessary, or your future medical care is speculative.
If you accept a settlement and release the claim, you generally cannot return later because your injury turned out to be more serious than expected. Our attorneys evaluate settlement offers against the evidence of both current and reasonably anticipated future losses, not simply the medical bills accumulated when the offer arrives.
If an insurer is pressuring you to settle while you are still treating, our Salt Lake City injury lawyers can review the offer and help you understand what accepting it would mean.
We help everyday people stand up for What's Right.
What Does Utah Law Say About Shared Fault?
When more than one party is responsible for an accident, Utah follows a modified comparative fault system under Utah Code § 78B-5-818. According to this rule, an injured person's own share of responsibility can reduce the compensation they receive from other responsible parties.
Recovery is also totally barred when the injured person’s fault is determined to be 50% or more in relation to the fault allocated to the defendants and other persons. This makes fault allocation important even when another party was clearly negligent.
An insurance company might argue, for example, that an injured driver was speeding when another vehicle turned across traffic. The question is not merely whether the injured person did something imperfectly. The evidence must establish what conduct contributed to causing the collision and how responsibility should be allocated.
Our attorneys investigate those arguments and challenge defense attempts to unfairly assign blame to our clients. We gather the evidence needed to accurately determine the fault of everyone involved.
How Does Utah's No-Fault Insurance System Affect Car Accident Claims?
Utah's no-fault rules add another layer to automobile injury cases. Your Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage generally pays qualifying initial medical expenses regardless of who caused the collision.
To pursue certain non-economic damages from an at-fault driver, an injured person generally must satisfy the threshold established by Utah Code § 31A-22-309. The statutory threshold can be met through qualifying circumstances, including medical expenses exceeding the statutory amount or specified serious injuries.
This threshold applies specifically to claims subject to Utah's no-fault automobile system. It does not mean every type of Salt Lake City personal injury case requires an injured person to accumulate a particular amount of medical bills before pursuing a negligence claim. We can explain more during a free case review.
How Long Do You Have to File a Personal Injury Lawsuit in Salt Lake City?
Utah’s statute of limitations generally provides four years to file most negligence-based personal injury lawsuits under Utah Code § 78B-2-307. But four years is not a universal deadline.
Claims against government entities involve special notice and filing requirements. Other causes of action can also have different deadlines.
Claims Against Government Entities Can Move Much Faster
An accident involving a government employee, public vehicle, or government-controlled property may fall under the Utah Governmental Immunity Act. These claims may require a formal notice of claim within one year, followed by additional procedural requirements and a shorter period to file suit. That can matter after crashes involving public vehicles or injuries allegedly caused by dangerous government-controlled property.
The safest approach is to determine the applicable deadline based on the specific defendant and cause of action rather than assuming you have four years. Even when the longer deadline applies, waiting can make the case harder to prove because evidence may disappear long before the statute expires.
Local Representation for Salt Lake City Injury Claims
Our attorneys represent injured people throughout Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, and the Wasatch Front. When litigation becomes necessary, Salt Lake County state-court personal injury cases may be filed in Utah's Third Judicial District Court. Federal jurisdiction can apply in appropriate cases.
Our team serves people injured throughout the city and surrounding Salt Lake County communities while drawing on the resources of an established Utah personal injury practice.
Frequently Asked Questions About Salt Lake City Personal Injury Claims
Do I need a lawyer if the insurance company already accepted fault?
Not necessarily for every claim, but accepted liability does not mean the insurer has agreed to pay all of your damages. Serious cases can still involve disputes over medical treatment, future care, lost earning capacity, pre-existing conditions, and the value of permanent limitations.
Should I give the other driver's insurance company a recorded statement?
Be cautious about providing a recorded statement before you understand why it is being requested and how it could affect your claim. Statements about how the accident happened, your injuries, or your recovery can later be used against you. Our attorneys can handle communications with the liability insurer after we are retained.
What if I had an injury or medical condition before the accident?
A pre-existing condition does not automatically prevent you from recovering compensation when an accident causes a new injury or aggravates an existing one. Medical records can become especially important in separating your condition before the accident from the changes that followed it.
Do most Salt Lake City personal injury cases go to trial?
No. Many claims resolve through negotiated settlements. However, preparing a significant claim for litigation can be important when an insurer disputes liability or damages. Our attorneys are willing to file suit and pursue the case in court when negotiations do not produce a fair resolution.
It has been several months since my accident. Is it too late to contact an attorney?
Not necessarily. Many Utah negligence claims have a four-year limitations period, but some cases have much shorter deadlines. More importantly, evidence can disappear long before the legal filing deadline. Contacting an attorney now gives the legal team more opportunity to investigate and preserve available evidence.
Talk With Our Salt Lake City Personal Injury Lawyers
You do not need to know what your case is worth or even whether you have a viable claim before talking with our team. Our Salt Lake City personal injury lawyers will listen to what happened, evaluate the legal and insurance issues, and explain your options.
If you decide to partner with our team, we will investigate the accident, handle insurance communications, document your losses, negotiate for a fair resolution, and pursue litigation when necessary.
Your initial consultation is free, and you pay no attorney fee unless we recover compensation for you.
Call (801) 845-0440 or contact us online for a free consultation with a Salt Lake City personal injury attorney. Get all your questions answered with no obligation or cost.