Handling Accident

If you suffer an injury as the result of someone else’s actions or negligence , you may find yourself in the position to seek financial compensation for physical , financial, and/ or emotional damages. Tort law exists exactly for this reason: so that those who are responsible pay for their damages, and so that those who are not responsible aren’t stuck with the bills and burden . Most injury victims will already have to live from some time, or even the rest of their lives, with an injury or disability. They shouldn’t also have to pay the costs. A personal injury claim allows a person who’s been injured by someone else’s negligence (called the plaintiff ) to seek compensation for their injury from those who are at fault or hold legal responsibility (called the defendant ) . If you have recently been injured in an auto accident, motorcycle accident, slip and fall, because of a defective product, or otherwise because of someone’s negligence, you may find yourself wondering about...

The Nevada high court recently changed the way Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyers conduct their trials in Nevada. In the past, each judge had different rules when it came time to picking a jury in personal injury trials. This meant different results, based upon which judge you had for your case. Considering there are over 20 different trial judges in Las Vegas, this was like spinning the roulette wheel of judges! In a recent case, the Nevada Supreme Court made two major announcements in personal injury trials. See Khoury v. Seastrand. 132 Nev. Ad. Op. 52 (2016). The first ruling by the high court, is that specific dollar amounts CAN be used during jury selection to uncover potential bias regarding verdict amounts. Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyers were sometimes blocked in ferreting out biased jurors. If your Lawyer wants to strike a potential juror because they don’t believe in people making claims for injuries, they can now put out hypothetical numbers and see if jurors have a person...

Today’s blog deals with the issue of whether a “physical” injury is needed to make a personal injury claim. While at first blush, this may seem like a silly question, the answer may surprise you. Your Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyer will tell you that a “physical” injury is not always necessary in asserting a Las Vegas personal injury claim. A recent decision from our state’s high court explores this issue.  You may remember the outbreak of hepatitis C that struck the Las Vegas Valley a few years ago, when a medical facility was accused of re-using syringes and vials. This was the Sadler v. Pacificare of Nev., Inc. ,130 Nev. Ad. Op. 98 (2014). To make things easier, we’ll just call it the “Hepatitis C” case. In the Hepatitis C case, patients who had been treated at the medical facility were scared that they may have been exposed to hepatitis C. Through their Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyer, they wanted the at fault medical facility to pay for their diagnostic testing and monit...

Burns are a very common injury in the United States. The American Burn Association (ABA) estimates that approximately a half-million people are treated for burn injuries each year [1] . Of those total injuries, almost 40,000 require the burn victim to be admitted to either a hospital or burn center [2] . Similarly, 3,275 people died from fire and/or smoke inhalation in the same annual period in 2015 [3] . This number includes 2,745 deaths from residential home fires, 310 from fires caused by automobile crashes, and 220 from other sources (non- residential or automobile). This statistic may sound high, or it may sound low, but the per-hour figure is still quite startling. One death occurs from a civilian fire every 2 hours and 41 minutes. The odds of a U.S. resident dying from exposure to fire, flames or smoke is 1 in 1442. That makes dying from smoke inhalation twice as likely as choking to death; and almost 10 times more likely than dying from a dog attack [4] . Fi...

Proposed rule changes submitted to the Florida Supreme Court on August 15, would remove some restrictions for lawyer’s participation in for-profit referral services. If approved the amended rule would apply to attorney matching websites like Avvo and Legal Zoom as well as non-lawyer owned referral services. The malpractice insurance requirement would be eliminated and rules requiring certain disclaimers in the services ads would be removed. In addition, a few requirements prohibiting lawyers from working with services that coerce them into providing cross referrals or fail to document their compliance with bar rules will be added. “You want to make sure that any of the advertising from any of the companies is honest, it’s truthful, it’s not misleading to the public,” said Florida Bar President Bill Schiffino to the Daily Business Review. “You don’t want any inappropriate fee-sharing. You want to make sure that there’s no conflicts of interest. While we cannot regulate these entit...