Blog: Personal Injury

When someone is hurt because of another person’s carelessness, Nevada law gives them a path to compensation, but that path runs through two separate burdens of proof. Both ultimately come down to the same thing: credibility. The injured person (the plaintiff) must show that another party (defendant) was at fault for the accident, and must …

In everyday conversation, “bodily injury” and “personal injury” get used interchangeably, and most of the time nothing turns on it. The distinction matters the moment someone is dealing with an actual claim, usually because an insurance adjuster has just said they’ve opened a “bodily injury claim,” and the person is trying to figure out whether …

Legally, these are two separate concepts. The liable party is whoever’s negligence caused the accident. The faultless party is the injured person, when they bear no responsibility themselves for what happened. In practice, these labels rarely come with certainty attached. Fault has to be proven, and in Nevada, even an injured person who wasn’t entirely …

After an accident, most people focus on healing. Insurance companies focus on limiting what they pay. That gap in priorities is why so many injury claims settle for far less than they’re worth, and why understanding how compensation is actually calculated, and when legal help changes that calculation, matters before you sign anything. “Maximizing compensation” …

A personal injury claim arises whenever one person suffers physical or emotional harm because another party acted negligently, recklessly, or intentionally. Nevada law allows injured people to recover compensation for medical expenses, lost income, and pain and suffering, but every case starts with the same basic question: who owed a duty of care, and who …

The decisions made in the hours, days, and weeks after a personal injury can have a significant impact on the strength of any future claim. Many people who would otherwise have strong cases end up with weak ones because of avoidable mistakes made before they ever spoke with an attorney. Insurance adjusters are trained to …

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans undergo hernia repair surgery. One of the biggest advances in these procedures has been the widespread use of surgical mesh, which is a medical implant designed to reinforce weakened tissue, reduce hernia recurrence, and help patients recover with fewer complications than traditional suture-only repairs. For many patients, hernia …

For a drug that has been prescribed to millions of women over the past three decades, Depo-Provera has had an unusually controversial history. Long before the current wave of lawsuits, the injectable contraceptive faced repeated regulatory hurdles in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined multiple applications to approve Depo-Provera as …

Gilead Sciences is facing a growing legal storm as thousands of plaintiffs accuse the company of knowingly exposing patients to avoidable harm through its widely prescribed HIV medication, Truvada. The lawsuits allege that Gilead developed a newer, potentially safer version of the drug years before it became available but deliberately delayed bringing it to market …