Nevada Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
The legal
principles for personal injury cases are the
same in other states in Nevada. Most think of
an automobile accident, but there are many
others such as slip and fall cases and those
from construction defects. While personal
injury cases can range from relatively small to
catastrophic injuries, they all arise from
negligence claims - which will be discussed
below. But first, the most obvious point that
should be discussed is taking care of yourself
and your recovery. It is obvious that medical
treatment should be sought, but people sometimes
make the mistake of not getting a proper
examination from a medical doctor and instead
will seek treatment from a chiropractor.
Chiropractors have a wonderful role in assisting
in recovery from a personal injury, however they
should not be the first line of treatment. In
fact many insurance companies will not pay as
much money for treatment if only a chiropractor
treated the injury based on the assumption one
must not have been injured too bad if only a
chiropractor treated you. Also, based on the
possibility that other injuries may have
occurred that a chiropractor is not trained in,
there is no substitute for seeing a medical
doctor (i.e. M.D. or D.O.). This doctor should
then refer you to either a chiropractor or
physical therapist or even both and you should
not hesitate to request such a referral.
Insurance companies view a referral as a full
diagnosis that such treatment was needed versus
an accident victim self diagnosing themselves
and just going to a chiropractor.
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While many accident and personal injury claims
will settle, any claim must be viewed as always
requiring a lawsuit in case it does not settle.
This is another reason for having a medical
doctor do a full examination right after any
accident since they will be needed to testify as
to your whole body condition. Another common
question is who should pay for any treatment.
The answer is your own personal insurance should
pay for the treatment, especially if you were
injured in a car accident and you have a policy
that will pay for your medical bills which you
being should have. Since you paid for the
insurance, you should use it and because you
paid for it, any person that injured you cannot
take advantage of your being responsible and
claim your medical bills are covered. In other
words, any person that injured you must still
pay you for the harm they cause you even though
your medical bills may already be paid by your
insurance. This is viewed as though you paid
your bills yourself (since you paid for the
insurance) and you are entitled to be paid for
these bills. This applies to any insurance
company paying on behalf of someone that injured
you as well. However, if you don't have
insurance then other options exist. The
insurance company of any person at fault may pay
your medical bills directly. If this does not
occur, then many health care providers can work
with any attorney you hire and put a "lien" on
the file which allows them to get paid once the
case is resolved.
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Now that the obvious
has been covered - that you need to properly get
examined so you can be properly treated, the
rest will fall into place. This may include the
need of a personal injury attorney. Insurance
companies are not in the business of paying out
money. This is where an attorney can help.
This occurs in many ways including evaluating a
case so you do not under value it or take a low
amount from an insurance company, as well as
letting you know if you are evaluating your case
too high. Sometimes unrealistic expectations
occur due to friends giving out opinions or from
hearing of other cases such as the infamous case
where a woman spilled coffee from a fast food
chain in her lap. What many do not know was how
horrific her injuries were and that the company
knew about their scalding temperature and didn't
properly fix it. When you hear about cases
people poke fun at, what must be remembered is
that the jury (people like you) listened to the
case and found a good reason to award a large
sum of money. But these cases are not the norm.
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Many
people, as well as attorneys, just instantly try
to settle a case. This may not always be in
your best interest. Some injuries take a while
to surface and this must be considered. While
you do not want to miss any statute of
limitations or simply ignore a case and get too
busy to deal with it later, there can be
advantages in not rushing to the court house to
file a lawsuit or to settle. It is important
that you discuss with your doctor what injuries
may surface in the future. Sometimes these
cannot even be predicted by your doctor, so it
may be beneficial to find an attorney that
understands this and is willing to take the time
with your case that is needed out into the
future and to insure you do not miss any statute
of limitations.
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As presented above,
many different types of accidents obviously
cause personal injuries other than car
accidents. However they are all basically
negligence claims. Not all personal injuries
are caused by negligence, even though most are.
Sometimes accidents just happen and no one is at
fault. If no one caused the accident, i.e. no
one was negligent, then you do not have a
personal injury claim. But you may need an
attorney to help resolve whether someone is
legally responsible for your injury. An example
of this is when a patient is injured during
surgery. Whether or not the doctor committed
malpractice and caused the injury of course
needs to be investigated. However, sometimes
people do not do well with surgery and it was
not caused by any improper care by the doctor.
Surgery just has its own inherent risks. But
again, as in any type of injury, it must be
thoroughly investigated since very few people
admit to any wrongdoing.
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