North Las Vegas Personal Injury Attorney Law Firm

Our Personal Injury Practice Areas in North Las Vegas

For over 33 years, we have helped clients injured in different circumstances. Here are some of our practice areas in North Las Vegas, Nevada:

Auto Accidents

Being involved in a car accident can affect you physically and mentally. In addition to potentially sustaining injuries, such as broken bones, head injuries, traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), burns, and lacerations, you may experience mental anguish, disfigurement, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, and insomnia.

Several factors can result in a crash, including speeding, drunk driving, distracted driving, vehicle defects, and reckless driving. The parties that may act negligently endangering you are another driver, a vehicle’s owner, a vehicle’s manufacturer, a property owner, and a passenger. Gathering adequate evidence can help you determine who made an error that caused the accident, and in turn, should compensate you.

A Las Vegas auto accident lawyer can help you gather crucial evidence, and guide you on the next steps to take.

Personal Injuries

It’s crucial to work with a personal injury attorney when you sustain an injury due to another party’s negligence. Someone who owes you a duty of care, which can be another driver, a physician, or a grocery store owner, needs to ensure you are safe. If they breach this duty of care perhaps by driving drunk, giving you an incorrect diagnosis, or not repairing a broken staircase, you may be eligible for compensation from them.

One of the challenging things involving personal injury cases is that victims take too long to file a claim. This is because some people are unaware if their experience meets the qualities of a personal injury claim. If you believe the injury you suffered was caused by the negligent action of another party, a lawyer in North Las Vegas can help you learn more about your case to make informed decisions.

Personal injury cases usually have a statute of limitations — you can only file a claim within a specified period from when you were injured. Most personal injury cases in Nevada have a two-year statute of limitations. Therefore, it’s important to act quickly to protect your eligibility for compensation.

Motorcycle Accidents

Motorcyclists are at risk of being injured by careless drivers, and most accidents happen at intersections. Some drivers turn left without checking for oncoming motorcycles, which can result in a head-on crash. In some instances, a driver may notice a motorcycle but misjudge the proximity and speed. The driver may believe they will have completed the turn before the motorcycle arrives at the intersection. However, this may not be the case.

Since motorcycle riders are not in enclosed cabins as drivers, they are likely to suffer serious injuries when involved in an accident. Our lawyers help victims injured in motorcycle accidents seek just compensation.

Medical Malpractice

Errors should not be reported in the medical field, yet they do. Some medical professionals act negligently, harming patients who went to them for treatment. Medical malpractice can happen in any department of a healthcare setting. Negligent conduct can be reported in the emergency room, operating room, diagnostic department, delivery room, or the ward. 

Examples of medical malpractice cases include:

• Diagnostic errors: Misdiagnosis, missed diagnosis, and delayed diagnosis.
• Medication errors: Prescribing or administering the wrong medication, administering the medication using an incorrect route, administering a wrong dosage, administering medication at the wrong time, and failing to monitor a patient after giving them medication.
• Surgical errors: Wrong person, wrong procedure, and wrong-site surgery, leaving a foreign object in a patient’s body, injury to the nerves during surgery, anesthesia errors, and performing an unnecessary surgery.
• Birth injuries: Improper use of delivery equipment, leading to complications, such as cerebral palsy and facial paralysis, medication errors, failure to monitor the mother for fetal distress, and not ordering a necessary C-section at all, or on time, when medical indications exist, resulting in harm to the mother or child.
• Hospital-acquired infections: Can be caused by poor hand hygiene, inadequate waste management, and lack of proper sterilization.

Cases involving medical malpractice have a three-year statute of limitations in Nevada.

Premises Liability

Property owners and landlords owe a duty of care to people they let into their property, and tenants. They are required to exercise reasonable care to prevent anyone from getting hurt while on the property. You can file a premises liability claim when injured on someone else’s property due to a hazardous condition, such as uneven floors, damaged or uneven stairs, wet floors, cracked sidewalks, and poor lighting.

A Las Vegas personal injury lawyer can help you establish why the property owner, or landlord, owes you a duty of care, and how they breached it. Your attorney will also gather the needed evidence to prove you were injured and suffered damages.

Catastrophic Injuries

If you suffer a severe injury that causes permanent or long-term effects, you are considered to have suffered a catastrophic injury. This type of injury should be handled carefully, as it can significantly affect your life. You may no longer be able to return to your career or the workforce, and may need ongoing treatment for possibly years. Thus, you need to seek a settlement that will ensure you never pay for damages out of pocket.

Our attorneys are experienced in helping clients with catastrophic injuries. We will use our expertise, and work with other professionals to help you determine the appropriate compensation.

Wrongful Death Attorney 

Unfortunately, someone’s negligent actions can cause the death of another. You may lose a loved one from injuries they suffer in a car accident, on someone else’s property, or after receiving substandard medical care. 

If this happens to your family, the personal representative of the deceased’s estate can file a wrongful death claim against the negligent party. From this claim, your family can recover the damages you suffered as a result of the death. These include medical expenses incurred before death, funeral and burial costs, loss of income, loss of companionship, and pain and suffering.

Adam S. Kutner, Injury Attorneys, works with family members to help them fight for the rights of their loved ones.

Slip-And-Fall Accidents

A slip-and-fall accident is a premises liability case. You can file this claim if you slip or trip on someone else’s property, and are injured. Different factors can cause you to slip and fall, including a spill on the floor, slippery floors, inadequate lighting in walkways, uneven surfaces, and clutter.

It’s important to work with a Las Vegas personal injury lawyer to obtain more information about your case.

Workers’ Compensation

If you are injured at work, you can be compensated by filing a workers’ compensation claim. However, if your employer’s insurance company denies your claim, or does not want to give you a fair settlement, you can file a personal injury claim. You can also do this if your injury was caused by your employer’s gross negligence or a third party’s negligence.

Other Practice Areas

Our law firm in North Las Vegas also handles:

• Bicycle accidents
• Truck accidents
• Pedestrian accidents
• Drunk driving accidents