Car Accident Lawyer
The other driver’s insurer has already opened a file on your crash, and they are working it right now. We work it back.
- 45+ years combined
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- 24/7 a person answers
- $0to start, and nothing out of pocket
- $0in fees unless we recover for you
- $0for the case review, with no obligation
What you are up against
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The adjuster wants a recorded statement
It is not a courtesy. A statement given before anyone knows the extent of an injury is one of the most reliable ways a claim gets reduced.
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The offer arrived before you finished treating
Accepting closes the claim permanently, including for whatever gets diagnosed next month.
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They are blaming you for part of it
Nevada bars recovery at 51 percent fault, so every percentage point they assign you is worth money to them.
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The other driver had minimum coverage
Nevada’s floor is 25/50/20. One ambulance ride and an MRI can approach that, which is when your own UM/UIM coverage starts to matter.
None of that has to be your problem to solve. Once we are involved, the adjusters go through us.
What to do after a crash
If you are reading this in the first days after a crash, start here. None of it needs a lawyer, and doing it properly protects a claim you have not decided to bring yet.
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Check for injuries and get to safety
Adrenaline masks a great deal. Move out of live traffic if the vehicle allows it.
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Call 911
A police report creates a contemporaneous record. In Nevada you must report a crash involving injury, death, or apparent damage over $750.
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Do not discuss fault at the scene
An apology is not a legal admission, but it will be quoted back to you by an adjuster who is not on your side.
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Exchange information and photograph everything
Vehicles, positions, plates, road conditions, signals, skid marks. Wide shots before close-ups.
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Get witness names and numbers
Witnesses leave. A phone number written down at the scene is worth more later than almost anything else you can collect.
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See a doctor even if you feel fine
Soft tissue and head injuries commonly present days later, and a gap between the crash and the first visit is the first thing an insurer will use.
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Notify your own insurer, and stop there
Report the crash. You are not required to give the other driver’s insurance company a recorded statement.
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Call before you accept anything
The review is free. If the offer is already fair, we will tell you that.
This is the short version. The full step-by-step guide, including Nevada reporting requirements and what to photograph, is on what to do after a car accident in Las Vegas.
Collisions we handle
Rear-end collisions
The most common crash in the valley, and routinely dismissed as minor. Cervical injuries from low-speed impacts are real and are frequently disputed.
T-bone and side-impact
Intersection crashes where fault turns on signal timing, right of way and often a camera that will be overwritten within weeks.
Head-on collisions
Wrong-way and crossover crashes, often at night and often involving impairment. The injuries are usually catastrophic, and more than one policy is frequently in play, including your own underinsured motorist cover. Both vehicles record speed and braking in the seconds before impact, and that data is lost when a car is scrapped.
Drunk and impaired drivers
The same fault rules apply, but Nevada allows punitive damages against a driver who chose to drive impaired, on top of ordinary compensation. The criminal case produces evidence the civil claim can use: the blood or breath result, the arrest report and the officer’s notes. Your claim does not wait for that case to finish.
Hit and run
Your own uninsured motorist coverage usually becomes the claim, because NRS 690B.020 requires that coverage to reach hit-and-run drivers. Most policies demand a police report and prompt notice, often within days, and a late report is one of the few reliable ways to lose the coverage. Cameras along the route are the best chance of finding the driver, and they overwrite fast.
Rollovers
Two questions: what put the vehicle over, and why the roof, the belts or the side airbags did not protect the people inside. The second is a claim against the manufacturer, and it depends on the vehicle staying unrepaired, so we ask for it to be held before an insurer sends it to salvage.
Blind spot and lane change
Common on the I-15 and US-95, and often argued as shared fault, which is exactly where comparative negligence gets used against you.
What a claim can cover
- Emergency treatment, imaging, surgery and the physical therapy that follows
- Wages lost while you could not work, and reduced earning capacity if the injury is lasting
- Vehicle repair or replacement, and a rental while you are without one
- Pain and suffering, which is argued rather than added up and is the first thing an insurer discounts
- Worth $100,000, you are 20% at fault. You recover $80,000.
- Worth $100,000, you are 50% at fault. You recover $50,000.
- Worth $100,000, you are 51% at fault. You recover nothing.
Nevada uses modified comparative negligence under NRS 41.141. That single percentage point between 50 and 51 is the most valuable one in the case, and it is why an adjuster wants your recorded statement early.
What decides the value
Nevada uses modified comparative negligence under NRS 41.141. Being partly at fault reduces what you recover by your share rather than ending the claim, up to 50 percent. At 51 percent recovery is barred.
The available insurance coverage is the ceiling on all of it. Nevada’s minimum liability limit is 25/50/20, which a single ambulance ride and an MRI can approach, so your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage often matters more than people expect.
No two claims carry the same value. What any particular case is worth depends on the injuries, the evidence and the coverage in place.
Handling a Nevada crash alone, or not
On your own
- The adjuster calls you, records you, and anchors the number low before anyone has looked at the scene.
- Bills arrive while you wait to be believed.
- Camera footage and vehicle data are overwritten within days.
- You take the first offer to make it stop.
With Get The Win
- Every call routes to us from day one, and the recorded-statement requests stop.
- Your treatment is arranged now, with nothing out of pocket.
- Preservation letters go out before that evidence is gone.
- Every offer comes to you with the reasoning behind it. The decision is always yours.
No fee unless we recover for you. A win here is your life handled while the claim is built as though a Clark County jury will decide it.
Settlements we have recovered
These are actual settlements obtained by this firm. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome. Every case turns on its own facts, and the value of any claim depends on the injuries, the available insurance coverage and the evidence. Amounts shown are gross recoveries before fees and case costs.
The Get The Win Standard
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The adjuster calls stop
Every call from their insurer routes here, and the recorded statement they asked for does not happen.
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The vehicle is held before it is sold
Event data recorders are overwritten when a car is repaired and lost when it is salvaged. A hold letter goes to the tow yard before it releases the vehicle.
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The treatment record is kept whole
An unexplained break in treatment is the cheapest argument an adjuster has. The file is tracked as the record is made rather than assembled afterward.
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The demand is built on the coverage that exists
Liability limits, your own uninsured and underinsured cover, and any resident relative policy. What is available is established before the claim is valued.
On completion
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What governs car accident claims in Nevada
- Filing deadline
- Two years from the crash, NRS 11.190(4)(e)
- Nevada minimum coverage
- 25/50/20 — the floor an at-fault driver may carry
- Fault bar
- Recovery barred at 51 percent, NRS 41.141
- Reporting duty
- Injury, death or apparent damage over $750 must be reported
- Property damage
- Three years, a separate period from the injury claim
General information about Nevada law, current as of publication. Deadlines and exceptions turn on the facts of a specific matter.
Straight answers
How long do I have to file a car accident claim in Nevada?
Generally two years from the date of the crash under NRS 11.190(4)(e). Claims against a government entity run much shorter. The safe approach is to find out early rather than assume.
What if the crash was partly my fault?
Nevada uses modified comparative negligence under NRS 41.141. You can recover while partly at fault, reduced by your share, up to 50 percent. At 51 percent recovery is barred, which is why insurers push fault onto injured people early.
The insurance company already offered me money. Should I take it?
Not before you know what your treatment will cost. An insurer accepting liability is not the same as an insurer offering fair value. Early offers arrive before the picture is complete, and accepting closes the claim permanently. Having someone look at it costs nothing.
What does a car accident lawyer cost?
Nothing up front. We work on contingency, so there is no attorney’s fee unless we recover compensation for you. Case costs are separate from the fee and are explained before they are incurred.
What if the other driver had no insurance?
Your own uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage often becomes the source of recovery. Nevada requires insurers to offer it, and many people carry it without realizing.
The driver who hit me was drunk. Does that change my claim?
It can. The fault rules are the same, but Nevada allows punitive damages against a driver who chose to drive impaired, on top of ordinary compensation. The criminal case also produces evidence the civil claim can use, such as the blood or breath result. Your claim does not have to wait for the criminal case to end, and the two-year deadline keeps running while it does.
Do I have to come to your office?
No. If you cannot travel we will meet you at home or at the hospital, and cases run fine with clients who have already flown home.
General information about Nevada law, current as of publication. Deadlines and exceptions turn on the facts of a specific matter, and nothing here is legal advice for your situation.
Where we work
Most of the crashes we work happen on the same stretches: the I-15 and US-95 approaches to downtown, the Spaghetti Bowl, and the arterials feeding Summerlin and Henderson. Cases are filed in Clark County, and we come to you rather than the other way round.
The agency that wrote your crash report depends on the road. Nevada Highway Patrol works crashes on the freeways, and Metro or the city police departments take most surface streets. We request the report from whichever agency wrote it and check its diagram against the scene photographs, because the officer drew that diagram in minutes, often before anyone measured anything.
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319 S 3rd St, Suite 200Las Vegas, NV 89101