Jarred Marks Car & Truck Collisions
Rear-end, intersection, and highway collisions, including commercial trucks, where another driver's negligence caused the injury.
Personal Injury · Motor Vehicle & Wrongful Death · Wasatch Front
The other driver's insurer opened its file the week of the collision, while you were still getting treated. We represent injured people and the families of those killed in Utah motor vehicle accidents. You pay no attorney fee unless we recover.
How We Help
Rear-end, intersection, and highway collisions, including commercial trucks, where another driver's negligence caused the injury.
Riders, cyclists, and pedestrians carry the worst injuries and face the fastest assumptions about fault.
Claims brought for the heirs when a collision kills, including the estate appointment where the claim needs one.
When the driver at fault carries minimum limits or nothing at all, the recovery has to come from your own policy. That is a claim against your own insurer, and it gets negotiated like one.
Denied claims, lowball offers, and disputes over medical treatment the adjuster calls unnecessary.
Hospital liens, health plan reimbursement, and unpaid provider balances have to be resolved before you see money. We negotiate them as part of the case.
We do not handle medical malpractice or premises liability. If that is your situation, say so when you call and we will point you to a firm that does.
Why This Firm
Utah lets the heirs bring a wrongful death claim directly. A surviving spouse, adult child, or parent can also settle a policy-limits claim with an insurer 45 days after the death on a notarized affidavit, without opening an estate, up to $25,000 on liability and uninsured motorist coverage and $10,000 on underinsured. Above those caps, someone has to be appointed. We tell you which situation you are in before you spend anything.
Where the claim is worth more than the affidavit route allows, or the insurer disputes it, the case is brought by a personal representative for the benefit of the heirs. Opening the estate and obtaining that appointment is probate work, and this firm already does it.
A recovery belongs to the heirs the statute names, and whoever brings the claim owes the others a fiduciary's duties. Families disagree about the split. Estate and trust litigation is a practice of this firm, not something handed off when it turns difficult.
Many Utah policies are written at or near the state minimum. We identify every available layer of coverage early, because available insurance, rather than the severity of the injury, often decides what a claim can actually pay.
Free Case Review
Describe the collision in general terms and we will follow up to discuss your options. Or call (801) 823-4379 and leave a message.
The case review costs nothing, and there is no attorney fee unless we recover for you. If the claim is not worth pursuing, we will say so rather than sign you up.
Consider talking to a lawyer before you give the other driver's insurer a recorded statement. The adjuster may ask for one, and what you say goes into their file.
Before You Call
The rules below decide most Utah motor vehicle claims. Each page cites the governing statute, and none of them requires you to hire anyone.
What your own PIP pays, and the six statutory ways to reach the at-fault driver for pain and suffering.
Which Utah claims are safe to handle yourself, and which ones have a fight built into them.
The four components of a Utah claim, and the three limits that cap it whatever the injury.
Four years for injury, two for a death, and one year to serve notice on a governmental entity.
What you owe your own insurer, what you owe the other driver's, and the requests worth pausing on.
Contingency terms in full: no retainer, no hourly bill, and no fee without a recovery.
Common Questions
Nothing up front. The fee is a percentage of what we recover, and there is no fee if we recover nothing. Case costs such as records, filing fees, and experts are separate from the fee and are explained in writing before you sign.
Not before you know what your treatment will end up costing. An early offer is made while the medical picture is incomplete, and accepting it closes the claim.
The claim shifts to the uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage on your own policy. That is still a contested claim, and your insurer defends it like any other.
Under Utah law the heirs may bring it, or a personal representative may bring it for their benefit. A surviving spouse, adult child, or parent can also settle a limited policy-limits claim on a notarized affidavit 45 days after the death, without opening an estate. Which route fits depends on the size of the claim and whether the insurer disputes it.
The case review is free and there is no attorney fee unless we recover.
Call (801) 823-4379