Resource Categories Nevada Revised Statutes

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 11.190(3) Periods of limitation.  3. Within 3 years: (a) An action upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture. (b) An action for waste or trespass of real property, but when the waste or […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 11.190(4)(c) Periods of limitation.  (c) An action for libel, slander, assault, battery, false imprisonment or seduction. Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) Chapter 11, Section 190(4)(c) Plain English Explanation You have two years to sue if someone libels or […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 11.190(4)(e) Periods of limitation.  (e) Except as otherwise provided in NRS 11.215 or 11.217, an action to recover damages for injuries to a person or for the death of a person caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another. […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 17.130  Computation of amount of judgment; interest. 1.  In all judgments and decrees, rendered by any court of justice, for any debt, damages or costs, and in all executions issued thereon, the amount must be computed, as […]

Statutory Text click to expand 1.  For the purposes of this section, a dog is: (a) “Dangerous” if: (1) It is so declared pursuant to subsection 2; or (2) Without provocation, on two separate occasions within 18 months, it behaved menacingly, to a degree […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 38.250  Nonbinding arbitration of certain civil actions filed in district court required; nonbinding arbitration of certain civil actions filed in justice court authorized; effect of certain agreements by parties to use other alternative methods of resolving […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 38.258  Use of other alternative methods of resolving disputes; adoption of rules by Supreme Court.       1.  The Supreme Court may authorize the use of settlement conferences and other alternative methods of resolving disputes, including, without limitation, […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 41.031  Waiver applies to State and its political subdivisions; naming State as defendant; service of process; State does not waive immunity conferred by Eleventh Amendment.       1.  The State of Nevada hereby waives its immunity from liability […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 41.032  Acts or omissions of officers, employees and immune contractors.   Except as provided in NRS 278.0233 no action may be brought under NRS 41.031 or against an immune contractor or an officer or employee of the State or any of […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 41.036  Filing tort claim against State with Attorney General; filing tort claim against political subdivision with governing body; review and investigation by Attorney General of tort claim against State; regulations by State Board of Examiners. 1.  Each […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 41.085 Heirs and personal representatives may maintain action.       1.  As used in this section, “heir” means a person who, under the laws of this State, would be entitled to succeed to the separate property of the […]

NRS 41.130 actions for personal injuries by wrongful act, neglect or default (Nevada definition) NRS 41.130Liability for personal injury.Except as otherwise provided in NRS 41.745, whenever any person shall suffer personal injury by wrongful act, neglect or default of another, the person […]

NRS 41.133 actions for personal injuries by wrongful act, neglect or default (Nevada definition) NRS 41.133  Conviction of crime is conclusive evidence of facts necessary to impose civil liability for related injury.   If an offender has been convicted of the crime which […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 41.510Limitation of liability; exceptions for malicious acts if consideration is given or other duty exists.       1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, an owner of any estate or interest in any premises, or a […]

NRS 41.141 Comparative negligence (Nevada definition) NRS 41.141 When comparative negligence not bar to recovery; jury instructions; liability of multiple defendants. In any action to recover damages for death or injury to persons or for injury to property in which […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 41.510Limitation of liability; exceptions for malicious acts if consideration is given or other duty exists.       1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, an owner of any estate or interest in any premises, or a […]

NRS 41.515 Liability of owner, lessee or occupant of premises to trespassers NRS 41.515 Limitations on liability; exceptions; “trespasser” defined. Except as otherwise provided in this section, an owner of any estate or interest in any premises, or a lessee or […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 41A.035Limitation on amount of award for noneconomic damages; publication of amount of limitation by Nevada Supreme Court.       1.  In an action for injury or death against a provider of health care based upon professional negligence, […]

Statutory Text click to expand  NRS 41A.071Dismissal of action filed without affidavit of medical expert.If an action for professional negligence is filed in the district court, the district court shall dismiss the action, without prejudice, if the action is filed without […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 41A.097Limitation of actions; tolling of limitation.       1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, an action for injury or death against a provider of health care may not be commenced more than 4 years after […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 42.005Exemplary and punitive damages: In general; limitations on amount of award; determination in subsequent proceeding.       1.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 42.007, in an action for the breach of an obligation not arising from contract, […]

NRS 42.021 Damages (Nevada definition)  NRS 42.021Actions based on professional negligence of providers of health care: Introduction of certain evidence relating to collateral benefits; restrictions on source of collateral benefits; payment of future damages by periodic payments.       1.  In an action for […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 455.010Erection of fence or other safeguard around excavation, hole or shaft required.Any person or persons, company or corporation, who shall dig, sink or excavate, or cause the same to be done, or being the owner […]

Statutory Text click to expand  NRS 455.080Definitions.As used in NRS 455.080 to 455.180, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 455.082 to 455.105, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.       (Added to NRS by 1991, 1141; A 2005, 905; 2009, […]

NRS 484B.300 Traffic signs, signals and markings (Nevada definition) NRS 484B.300Obedience to devices for control of traffic; exceptions; placement of devices; additional penalty for violation committed in work zone or pedestrian safety zone. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 484B.307, it is […]

NRS 485.185 Insurance Required (Nevada Definition) NRS 485.185 Insurance for payment of tort liabilities arising from maintenance or use of motor vehicle: Coverage to be obtained from insurance company duly licensed and approved; minimum thresholds of coverage. Except as otherwise provided […]

NRS 485.3091 Proof of financial responsibility (Nevada definition) NRS 485.3091  Motor vehicle liability policy: Requirements.  An owner’s policy of liability insurance must: (a) Designate by explicit description or by appropriate reference all motor vehicles with respect to which coverage is thereby to be […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 50.275Testimony by experts.If scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by special knowledge, […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 575.020 Allowing vicious animal to escape or run at large; penalty; vicious animal may be killed; liability of person having care or custody of animal which chases, worries, injures or kills livestock of another.       1.  Every […]

NRS 616B.612 liability for provision of coverage (Nevada definition) NRS 616B.612Employers to provide compensation; effect of participation in consolidated insurance program; relief from certain liability.       1.  Every employer within the provisions of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, or 617 of NRS, and those employers who accept the […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 616D.120Administrative fines and benefit penalties for certain violations; powers of Administrator; revocation or withdrawal of certificate of self-insurance or registration as third-party administrator; claim against bond for payment of administrative fines or benefit penalties.       […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 687B.385 Refusal to issue, cancellation, nonrenewal or increase in premium of policy of motor vehicle insurance due to claims for which insured was not at fault, claims for which insurer made no payment or recovered […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 687B.310  Cancellations and nonrenewals; scope of application. 1.  NRS 687B.310 to 687B.420, inclusive, apply to all binders and all contracts of insurance the general terms of which are required to be approved or are subject to disapproval by the […]

NRS 689A.040 required provisions (Nevada definition)  NRS 689A.040Contents of policy; substitution of provisions; captions; omission or modification of provisions.       1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, each such policy delivered or issued for delivery to any person in this State […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 690B.020  Coverage for uninsured or hit-and-run vehicles required; exceptions; insolvency of insurer; payment; presumption.       1.  Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 690B.035, no policy insuring against liability arising out of the ownership, maintenance or […]

Statutory Text click to expand NRS 695E.090 “Product liability” defined.   “Product liability” means liability for damages because of any personal injury, death, emotional harm, consequential economic damage or damage to property, including damages resulting from the loss of use of property, arising […]