You booked an Uber or Lyft because you needed someone else to drive. Then the ride ended in a crash. As a passenger, you weren’t the one making the driving decisions that led to the crash. When two vehicles collide while you’re in the back seat, the investigation usually turns to the rideshare driver, the other motorist, or both. But where does that leave you? Nevada has rules in place for rideshare Read More

In this post:  Self-driving vehicle crashes may involve responsibility beyond a human operator, including vehicle owners, manufacturers, automated-driving developers, or other companies. Electronic vehicle data may show whether automated mode was active, how the vehicle responded, and whether warnings or system failures occurred. Motorcyclists face particular risks when automated systems fail to detect, track, or Read More

In this post:  Nevada DUI crash claims may involve toxicology results, officer observations, video, witness accounts, and records tied to alcohol or drug use. Nevada law may allow punitive damages when an impaired driver causes an injury after willfully consuming alcohol or another substance. A criminal DUI case and a civil injury claim serve different purposes, so an arrest, plea, or conviction does not Read More

A car accident is already a lot to process. Then you find out insurance is missing, yours, theirs, or both and suddenly you're not just dealing with a crash. You’re dealing with a question mark. Here’s the part that catches most people off guard: no insurance doesn’t mean no answers. It doesn’t tell you who caused the crash, and it doesn’t mean there’s no coverage to work with. Whose policy is missing, how the Read More

You are riding through an intersection when a car turns across your lane and hits you. After the collision, you notice an Uber or Lyft sticker on the windshield. The driver tells you the app was open, but nobody had requested a ride yet. That detail sounds small. It isn’t. Rideshare vehicles switch insurance coverage depending on what’s happening in the driver’s app at the moment of the crash.  The driver’s app Read More

In this post: Nevada riders are seeing more traffic tickets because enforcement is being coordinated across agencies through scheduled Joining Forces campaigns focused on speeding, impaired driving, distracted driving, pedestrian safety, and seat belt use. For riders, that can spill into two real-world problems: a driving record that insurers may price against and a citation narrative that can feed fault arguments Read More

A motorcycle crash can change your life in seconds, but a traumatic brain injury can quietly change it forever. One of the most dangerous parts of a brain injury is that you may feel fine right after the crash. Hours or even days later, symptoms can start to appear, and by then, the damage may already be serious. For riders, this is one of the most overlooked and most dangerous consequences of an accident. What many Read More

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