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What are the New Developments in Automated Cars?

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Few things affect your Las Vegas Car Accident Attorney more than the automated cars. As you may recall from prior blogs, automated cars are now being tested on our Nevada roadways. Aside from minor accidents, there have been no real catastrophes involving automated cars. That all changed on May 7, 2016 for a driver in Florida. On May 7, 2016, Joshua Brown, a former Navy Seal, was driving his Tesla Model S in Florida, in the “semi-autonomous Autopilot system”, when he was killed in a fatal car crash. In piecing together the events leading up to the crash, investigators determined Mr. Brown wasn’t actually driving his car.  Moments before the crash, a big rig, made a left hand turn in front of Mr. Brown’s Tesla. The driver of the semi-truck, said when the accident happened, he could hear a movie playing. In an erie turn of events, even after Mr. Brown had died in the collision, the truck driver saw the Telsa drive down a quarter of mile before stopping due to hitting a light pole. I...
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Untimely Billing In Personal Injury Protection (“PIP”); The 35 Day Rule Of PIP

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As medical providers, it is always important to have a great billing department to ensure that services are being coded correctly, sent to the correct place and served timely to the medical provider. One of the issues I speak to my clients about on a weekly basis is timely filing of claims, especially when the patient initially gives them the wrong information. When a patient is in a car crash and the other person is to blame, what we find happens is when asked for the insurance information they can tend to give the insurance information of the “At-Fault” insurance provider. When dealing with Personal Injury Protection “PIP” , otherwise known as “The Florida No-Fault Law” the information you are seeking is for their own insurance. Meaning it is important to have every person in the office know the difference between a BI claim operating under a letter of protection and a claim that is being billed to PIP. So what happens when, even though the staff is educated, the p...
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Are There Differences in Subjective Versus Objective Injuries in Las Vegas Trials?

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This month’s blog is a follow up to our previous discussion of the Behr case, on what damages can be awarded to an injured party at trial. As readers may recall from last month’s blog post, the Behr case dealt with an alleged brain injury following a car accident. See the unpublished opinion from the Nevada Court of Appeals. Behr v. Diamond , No. 66612 (Nev. App., 2015).   The Behr court determined that a claim for future pain and suffering on subjective injuries must be supported by expert testimony. Expert testimony is needed to establish that "[F]uture pain and suffering is a probable consequence rather than a mere possibility." Lerner Shops of Nev., Inc. v. Marin , 83 Nev. 75, 79-80, 423 P.2d 398, 401 (1967).  A subjective disability was defined as one that was not visible to others. Common examples of subjective injuries were: headaches and low-back pain, as well as mental worry and distress. See Gutierrez v. Sutton Vending Serv., Inc., 80 Nev. 562, 566, 397 P....
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