Blog: Personal Injury

Legally reviewed by Sandy Van (Bar No. 10785). Updated October 2026. Many people who are hurt in an accident put off making a claim because they picture a courtroom: a judge, a jury, and hours on the witness stand. They worry that if they ask for compensation, they will end up in a trial. Filing …

Distracted driving has become one of the most common causes of injury crashes on Nevada roads. A driver who looks down at a phone for two seconds while traveling at 40 miles per hour covers more than 100 feet of roadway without watching where the vehicle is going. Whether the distraction is a text message, …

Surveillance video has become one of the most decisive forms of evidence in personal injury cases. A clear recording of the moments before, during, or after an incident can establish fault with an authority that no witness statement can match. Video that shows something inconsistent with an injured party’s account, however, can end a claim …

Not every workplace injury is caused by the direct employer. On construction sites, along delivery routes, at client properties, and in shared industrial spaces, a worker may be injured by the negligence of someone entirely separate from the company that issues their paycheck. When that happens in Nevada, a personal injury lawsuit against that third …

For years, parents across the country have fought an exhausting, uphill battle against their children’s screen time. If your teenager has struggled with severe anxiety, clinical depression, eating disorders, or self-harm connected to compulsive social media use, you likely already know how difficult it is to simply “turn off” these apps. Social media addiction litigation …

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” …