When a crash involves a commercial truck, the question is rarely just whether the driver made a mistake. In many Nevada truck accident cases, liability can extend to the trucking company, a maintenance provider, a cargo loading company, a manufacturer, or even another negligent driver. That matters because the more serious the crash, the more important it becomes to identify every party whose actions contributed to Read More
What Impacts Your Motorcycle Accident Settlement in Las Vegas
In Las Vegas, motorcycle crash claims are governed under Nevada’s fault and comparative negligence laws. Who is considered responsible for the crash, and by what percentage, directly impacts whether you can recover compensation and how much your case may be worth. After a crash, you may be facing unexpected medical bills, missed work, ongoing pain, and an insurance company that is already questioning your version of Read More
How Fault Is Determined After a Car Accident in Nevada
After a car accident, two questions become immediate: how serious are the injuries, and who is at fault. That second question is not just a legal detail. It determines who pays for medical care, lost income, property damage, and in serious cases, long-term recovery. State traffic safety data from Nevada’s Zero Fatalities program reports 406 traffic deaths in 2023 and a preliminary 419 deaths in 2024, with impaired Read More
What You Should Do as an Injured Passenger in a Las Vegas Car or Motorcycle Accident
As a passenger, you usually did nothing to cause the crash, yet you still carry the physical and financial consequences. You may start hearing different versions of what happened from drivers, police, and insurance adjusters, making it difficult to know where you stand. Preliminary state data shows 381 fatal crashes across Nevada in 2024, and Clark County recorded 293 road deaths, making 2024 the deadliest year on Read More
Settlement Myths: Why the First Offer Is Rarely the Best One You’ll Get
In this post: First settlement offers aim to resolve claims before the full cost of a crash becomes clear. Motorcycle and truck cases often involve bias, rushed fault allocation, and injuries that evolve over time. Waiting, gathering evidence, and evaluating long-term impact creates leverage and protects recovery. Insurance companies do not make early settlement offers to be generous. They make them to close claims Read More
How Are Commercial Truck Crash Investigations Different From Regular Car Crashes in Nevada?
In this post: Commercial truck crash investigations move faster, dig deeper, and involve far more players than regular car crashes. Evidence disappears quickly, liability spreads across companies, and catastrophic injuries change the stakes. Treating a truck case like a fender-bender costs injured people leverage and compensation. A fully loaded tractor-trailer can weigh 80,000 pounds. Physics does not negotiate Read More
Carrying While Riding
I tell people all of the time that they should get their CCW if they otherwise qualify. It’s especially important if you are an MC rider for two reasons: 1. The only way you can really carry a firearm on a bike will be in a concealed fashion. Even if you have it on your hip in an open carry holster, chances are your shirt/vest/jacket will be covering it enough to say it’s not readily observable to the naked eye, Read More
Motorcycle Pelvic Injuries
Another injury topic very pertinent to motorcycle riders is pelvic injuries. The pelvis is the strongest and most protected structure in the body. It takes a lot of energy to damage the pelvis, and many times, pelvic injury is accompanied by a lot of other injuries. There is one doctor in town that testifies that a pelvic injury is, by definition, also a spine injury. I don’t fully agree, but appreciate the Read More
Speed and Motorcycles
May not be popular to say, but speed is a factor in a lot of motorcycle-related accidents. Fortunately, Nevada is a “comparative negligence” State, our version of that law says you can still recover for your injuries so long as your fault is “not greater than” the fault of the other party. So you can recover so long as you are not more than 50% at fault for an accident. The degree of your fault is for a jury to Read More
Female Specific Motorcycle Injuries
As a follow-up to the boy’s injury post, I wanted to do one for the girls. In thinking back through the thousands of cases we have handled, I could only think of a maybe one where a female was injured in her groin, a tear as I recall. Obviously, I am not posting pictures of that. But I started thinking, as far as accidents, why we see far fewer women injured than men, not just the fact that there are more male Read More
