If you get hit by someone texting while driving in Las Vegas, you can file a personal injury lawsuit and demand compensation for your losses. Because texting and driving is against the law in Nevada, you may be able to prove that the driver was negligent per se, making it easier to recover compensation. Does texting …
There is no NRS section that defines “negligence” in Nevada civil cases (though NRS 193.018 does define it in criminal cases). Instead, Nevada’s definition of negligence comes from the “common law” as spelled out in various Nevada Supreme Court judicial opinions. (One example is Turner v. Mandalay Sports Entm’t, LLC, 124 Nev. 213, 180 P.3d …
The statute of limitations for bringing a lawsuit following a truck accident in Nevada is two years after the accident.1 The two-year rule applies whether you are suing for personal injury negligence, wrongful death, or products liability. Two years is not very long. Truck accident law attorneys need time to gather all the applicable evidence, …
In Nevada, you have to prove four “elements” to win a negligence case at trial: The responsible party (“defendant”) had a duty of care towards you (“plaintiff”); The defendant breached this duty of care; The breach of duty actually caused and proximately caused your accident; and The accident resulted in damages to you.1 The element …
Prima facie negligence is when a person or entity fails to use the care that a reasonably prudent and careful person or entity would use under similar circumstances.1 The term can also refer to the scenario where a party fails to take some act when there is a legal duty to act (for example, a …
In general, Nevada landlords and property management companies are not liable for injuries that occur inside a rental unless their faulty workmanship or repairs caused the injury. Landlord’s duty to maintain habitable conditions Nevada landlords have the duty to keep dwellings in a habitable condition. Just some of these habitability requirements include: weather protection of …
Today, the Nevada Supreme Court may have made it easier for victims of the October 1st Las Vegas Massacre to recover damages from the MGM Resorts. The Court denied New York, New York’s petition to rehear the landmark case Humphries v. New York, New York. This case seems to lower the bar for proving that …
The Vegas Massacre on October 1, 2017, where a shooter from his Mandalay Bay hotel room killed 58 and injured hundreds at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, was a shocking event. But the personal injury attorneys at Las Vegas Defense Group contend the Vegas Massacre was also a foreseeable event. And according to the new …
