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INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL · FIRM PROFILES · CHANDLER, ARIZONA
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A Chandler Firm That Only Sues Insurance Companies for Bad Faith
Arnett & Arnett, PC doesn’t handle car accidents or slip-and-falls directly — its practice is narrower and more specialized than that: representing policyholders against their own insurance companies when a claim is unfairly denied or underpaid, a niche the firm has occupied since two brothers joined forces in 1990.
BY THE AWESOME ATTORNEYS EDITORIAL TEAM · CHANDLER, ARIZONA · JULY 2026
ARNETT & ARNETT, PC — AT A GLANCE
| FUNDADA POR | Wayne C. Arnett (now retired) and Mark Arnett, brothers who formed the firm together in 1990 |
| CURRENTLY LED BY | Mark Arnett, who began his career in insurance defense at a large Arizona firm before moving to plaintiffs’ work |
| ENFOQUE | Insurance bad faith litigation exclusively — representing policyholders whose insurers denied, delayed, or underpaid claims for fire, auto, life, health, or disability coverage |
| OFICINA | 1120 S. Dobson Rd., Chandler, Arizona, serving Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale, Flagstaff, Tucson, and statewide |
| CERTIFICACIÓN | Wayne Arnett was a State Bar of Arizona Certified Specialist in Injury and Wrongful Death Law since 1997, prior to his retirement |
| RECONOCIMIENTOS | Ranked by Chambers USA in its Insurance category — a rigorous, internationally recognized legal directory distinct from pay-to-play attorney award programs |
Sources: arizonainsurancelaw.com (firm website), Chambers USA, LinkedIn. Compiled July 2026.
ORIGEN
Two Brothers, One Narrow Specialty
Wayne C. Arnett earned his B.S. cum laude from Brigham Young University and his J.D. cum laude from Arizona State University, where he served as associate editor of the Arizona State Law Journal. He built a career litigating plaintiffs’ insurance bad faith and punitive damages cases, including appellate work that helped shape Arizona bad-faith law, and was certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a specialist in injury and wrongful death in 1997. He is now retired, though the firm states his influence continues in the standards he set.
His brother, Mark Arnett, also holds a B.S. from Brigham Young University and a J.D. cum laude from Arizona State University. Mark began his legal career doing insurance-defense work for one of Arizona’s larger law firms before joining Wayne in 1990 to found Arnett & Arnett, dedicating his practice to insurance bad faith litigation on behalf of policyholders — the same “switched sides” pattern found among several other attorneys in this series, here specifically confined to insurance coverage disputes rather than general accident litigation.
PRÁCTICA
A Practice Limited to Insurance Bad Faith
Unlike most firms in this series, Arnett & Arnett does not describe itself as a general personal injury or accident practice. Its stated mandate is narrower: representing policyholders against insurance companies that act in bad faith — unfairly denying a claim or offering an unreasonably low payment — across fire, auto, life, health, and disability insurance disputes. The firm’s own materials cite representative matters including a case involving denied coverage for breast-reconstruction surgery, a judicial review of an Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) decision, and an ERISA disability-benefits dispute, with Wayne Arnett noted as having represented the plaintiff in at least one of these matters. Chambers USA, an independently researched legal-directory publisher, describes the firm as “well-respected” for its “longstanding representation of plaintiff policyholders in insurance bad faith cases, as well as claims concerning injury and wrongful death.”
HISTORIAL
El tablero de resultados
The firm’s public materials reference specific case types rather than a dollar-figure results table.
| MATTER TYPE (AS DESCRIBED BY THE FIRM) | NOTE |
|---|---|
| Denied coverage for breast-reconstruction procedure | Insurance coverage dispute |
| AHCCCS director’s decision, judicial review | Wayne Arnett represented the plaintiff |
| ERISA disability benefits dispute | Insured denied benefits for partial disability |
Source: arizonainsurancelaw.com. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter; every case is unique. Full case citations were not published by the firm and were not independently located by Awesome Attorneys.
LA VOZ DEL CLIENTE
Lo que reportan los clientes
Awesome Attorneys located limited first-person client review content specific to Arnett & Arnett at the time of this profile’s research. This is disclosed directly rather than papered over with review content from unrelated sources.
COMUNIDAD
Más allá de la sala del tribunal
Awesome Attorneys did not find documentation of specific charitable programs or nonprofit board seats tied to either Arnett individually.
RECONOCIMIENTOS
Posición entre colegas
Arnett & Arnett’s Chambers USA ranking in the Insurance category is a genuinely rigorous credential: Chambers is an independently researched international legal directory whose rankings are based on client and peer interviews conducted by its own research staff, distinct from the membership-based or self-nominated award programs that appear elsewhere in this series. Wayne Arnett’s 1997 State Bar specialist certification, held until his retirement, is likewise a genuine, individually earned credential. Both Arnetts also carry AV-Preeminent ratings from Martindale-Hubbell and have been recognized by Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America, per the firm.
LA LEY
El contexto legal de Arizona, en lenguaje sencillo
Readers considering an insurance bad faith or personal injury claim in Arizona should understand a few ground rules. What follows is general information, not legal advice.
El reloj de dos años. Arizona’s statute of limitations for personal injury claims is generally two years from the date of injury (A.R.S. § 12-542). Insurance bad faith claims are governed by different limitations periods depending on the type of claim, which a bad-faith attorney can help identify.
Demandar al gobierno es más rápido y más estricto. Claims against Arizona public entities require a formal notice of claim within 180 days (A.R.S. § 12-821.01) and a lawsuit within one year (A.R.S. § 12-821).
La culpa se comparte, no es todo o nada. Arizona follows pure comparative negligence (A.R.S. § 12-2505) in personal injury matters: an injured person’s recovery is reduced by their percentage of fault, but not eliminated even if they were mostly at fault.
Los menores tienen más tiempo. The limitations clock is generally paused for minors and people of unsound mind until the disability ends (A.R.S. § 12-502).
EVALUACIÓN
La perspectiva de Awesome Attorneys
Arnett & Arnett’s genuine differentiator is real specialization: rather than marketing itself as a broad accident-injury firm, it has spent 35 years focused specifically on insurance bad faith litigation, and its Chambers USA ranking is a meaningfully more rigorous credential than most awards referenced elsewhere in this series. Mark Arnett’s documented insurance-defense-to-plaintiff career arc adds real substance to the firm’s stated insider perspective on how insurers evaluate claims.
The honest trade-offs: this is not a general personal injury firm, and readers with a straightforward car-accident or slip-and-fall claim without an insurance-bad-faith dimension should look elsewhere in this series. Wayne Arnett, the firm’s most publicly credentialed attorney, is now retired, meaning current representation would come from Mark Arnett and any associate attorneys rather than the founder whose specialist certification anchors much of the firm’s public reputation. Awesome Attorneys also could not locate a body of first-person client reviews or a published results table for the firm.
METHODOLOGY & INDEPENDENCE
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in July 2026. Primary source: the firm’s own published website, arizonainsurancelaw.com. Secondary sources: Chambers USA and LinkedIn. Arnett & Arnett, PC did not commission, pay for, or pre-approve this article. All claims are attributed to their sources; past results do not guarantee or predict future outcomes. This article is general information, not legal advice.
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