What To Do When You Are Injured?

When you have been injured by someone else's carelessness, it is important to take some initial steps toward making sure your injury claim can be settled fairly and as quickly as possible:

• Write down everything you can remember about how the injury occurred, including the names, addresses and phone numbers of potential witnesses, police officers, insurance company representatives (or company or workers' compensation representatives if it was a work injury).
• Talk to a Nevada personal injury lawyer before making any statements, written or verbal, to insurance company adjusters or representatives.
• Let anyone you think may be responsible for the injury know right away that you are intending to file a claim against them.
• When you are in an accident the first few minutes can be vital to your health and your ability to recover damages.
• See if there are any independent witnesses.
• Courteously exchange the necessary insurance information with the other parties. Be careful not to make comments or statements that could be misconstrued.
• Contact our office for immediate help.
• Everyone should carry a disposable camera in their car.
• Take steps to protect any evidence you may need to prove your injury, such as your totaled car, photographs of an accident or injury scene, clothing you were wearing, damaged personal belongings, and so forth.

How Do I Figure Out Who Is At Fault?

In most cases, in order to collect on an injury claim in Nevada, you must prove the person who caused the injury was "negligent," which is a failure to use reasonable care. In Nevada, you must prove:

• The existence of a duty owed to you by the person who caused your injury
• The other person failed to carry out that duty
• You suffered damages
• The other person's failure caused you to have the injury
• All vehicles involved should first be moved to safety so as not to cause further injury to your self or others.
• You must take care of any serious or life threatening injuries.

If you were careless, and your carelessness contributed to your injury, the amount you can recover will be reduced in proportion to your carelessness, under Nevada modified comparative negligence law. If you were more careless than the other person, you cannot recover any damages. This means that if you were 51% or more at fault, you could not recover. If you were 50% or less at fault, you could recover but your recovery would be reduced by your degree of fault. In Nevada, if more than one person is negligent toward you, each person who has been found negligent to you is responsible for a proportional amount of the total damages.

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What Is My Claim Worth?

Under Nevada law, the person who injured you is responsible for:

• Past, current and future estimated medical expenses
• Time lost from work, including time spent going to medical appointments or therapy
• Any property that was damaged, such as your vehicle
• The cost of hiring someone to do household chores when you could not do them
• Any permanent disfigurement or disability
• Your emotional distress, including anxiety, depression, and any interference with your family relationships
• A change in your future earning ability due to the injury
• Any other costs that were a direct result of your injury

How Long Do I Have To File A Legal Claim?

In Nevada, you only have two (2) years to file a lawsuit against the person who injured you. If your lawyer has not been able to come to an agreement with any involved including the insurance companies, you will definitely want to file a lawsuit before the two (2) year statute of limitations runs out to preserve your claim.