Nevada Personal Injury Legal Questions

It looks like your question is about bankruptcy. No matter what your credit score is, you can file bankruptcy. Your other question is in regard to the effect of a bankruptcy filing on trying to obtain a rental. Generally, landlords look to your rental history and references and, if there is a good reason for your bankruptcy, most landlords will not hold that against you. To be safe, you may want to wait until after you move. But remember that if the creditor starts trying to collect money from you (such as filing a lawsuit) that could be disastrous to your credit.... Read More

The other guy is at fault for running the stop sign, but not for driving without a license.? It's a common misconception that driving without a license or insurance automatically makes the unlicensed or uninsured driver liable for any accident.? It's not true.? Those are criminal offenses, but they don't cause accidents any more than the drivers' getting up that morning caused the accident you were involved in.... Read More

Negligence is trumps. The question is always what caused the collision, not the status of your license or right to drive when facing a stop sign you cant drive forward until you see the way is safe to do so. Here it was not safe to do so. Hence the other driver is guilty of a stop sign violation.... Read More

The main question surrounds who was negligent, or responsible for the wreck. If you can prove that the other driver was negligent, you will win. If you can't prove that, it doesn't help you that his license was suspended. He should receive a traffic ticket for driving on a suspended license, but that would not impact his liability to you.... Read More

Call the industrial commission or workers' compensation commission in your state; if there is none call the insurance commissioner to ask who you need to report it to. If not those two then try your state ombudsman. An ombudsman helps you work your way to the right person in state government.... Read More

Even had the cameras been working, there is no evidence that they would have been in a position to record the license plate of the?car that hit yours. Nor is there any guarantee that the other driver had insurance [about 25% of the cars on the road are uninsured].? You did not park there because of the sign so there is no detrimental reliance.? At most the restaurant was guilty of false advertising but that is not enough of a causal connection to the damage to your car.? Moreover, I think a artier of fact just would be very reluctant to award you anything under such circumstances.... Read More

You have not missed the statute of limitations for a slip and fall.  However you have also not included in your scenario the most important facts which are what the premise owner did negligently.  There is no strict liability for slips and falls.  Without knowing what you feel over or under what circumstances you fell, it is impossible to assess liability.  To prevail on a traditional negligence theory, a plaintiff must demonstrate that "(1) the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of care, (2) the defendant breached that duty, (3) the breach was the legal cause of the plaintiff’s injuries, and (4) the plaintiff suffered damages." DeBoer v. Sr. Bridges of Sparks Fam. Hosp., 282 P.3d 727,732 (2012).  The Nevada Supreme Court has held that a landowner should anticipate, and is liable for failing to remedy, the risk of harm from obvious hazards when an invitee could be distracted from observing or avoiding the dangerous condition, or may forget what he or she has discovered, and the landowner has reason to expect that the invitee will nevertheless suffer physical harm. Where a foreign substance causing a slip and fall is made to be on the floor by the owner or one of its agents, then liability will lie, as a foreign substance on the floor is usually not consistent with the standard of ordinary care.  There are exceptions for ice and natural conditions which do routinely occur on the ground.  Traditionally, where a foreign substance causing a slip and fall results from “the actions of persons other than the business or its employees, liability will lie only if the business had actual or constructive notice of the condition and failed to remedy it.” ... Read More

Yes, the lawyer can bail out. Usually, they have to file a motion to ask the judge to let them out. The order that grants permission will usually require you to obtain another lawyer within a short period of time, but in the meantime, any documents being filed can be sent to you at your last known address, by regular mail.... Read More