Back Injury Liability Claims and Settlements
Las Vegas, Nevada
Back injury accident cases
If your accident resulted in a back injury, call our office at 702-432-1000 to discuss your situation and ask to speak with a back injury attorney. We don't charge for consultations.
We helped hundreds of people injured in a car, truck, bus, motorcycle, or falling down the stairs accidents to get fair and full compensation to pay for their medical bills and other damages.
What is the average settlement for a back injury in a car accident?
Each case is different.
Typically, a personal injury settlement directly correlates to the dollar amount of your medical bills (past, current, future). In addition, the lost wages (current and future), property damages, and at-fault party maximum policy limits also affect your settlement. Compensation for a back injury could be six or seven figures, but insurance companies often don't publish settlement amounts.
If you want to know what compensation to expect for your injuries, call our office and ask to speak with our back injury attorney. When we know the facts surrounding your accident, we can provide you with a more accurate answer on what settlement you can expect in your case.
Determining who is at fault
To determine who is at fault, the back injury attorney looks at every piece of evidence, police report, medical records and speaks with all eyewitnesses available. Not all back injuries are turn out to be personal injury claims and receive large settlements.
However, in our experience, most of the time, somebody's carelessness or negligence causes an accident that results in an injury.
In Nevada, the at-fault party or multiple parties are financially responsible for all damages. It includes medical bills (past, present, future), property damages, lost wages, pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life.
If you were partly at fault
In Nevada, you can collect compensation from all at-fault parties if you are less than 51% responsible for the accident.
Where accidents often occur
Motor vehicle accidents (cars, trucks, buses, or motorcycles) are not the only places where a person can get a back injury. You can get injured when you trip and fall on a wet floor or a torn carpet. Falling down the stairs or acts of violence can also cause a back injury.
Car accidents and back injury
Car accidents (rear-end collisions, t-bone collisions, head-on collisions, rollover accidents) often result in a back injury. The most common causes of car accidents include DUI, distracted driving, driving and texting, failure to adjust to condition, hazards on the road, or malfunctioning car parts. Car accidents can happen on a busy highway or a quiet street intersection. A person injured in a motor vehicle accident often requires expensive medical treatment.
Usually, the at-fault driver (or their insurance) pays all damages in a car accident.
Truck accidents and back injury
What makes truck accidents unique, the truck driver and truck company need to comply with many government regulations. They do not always do it, and it may cause an accident. Truck accidents often involve multiple victims, and, in many cases, more than one party is liable. The truck accidents (rear-end collisions, rollover accidents) may result in serious back injury and require expensive treatment and often long-term care.
Falling down the stairs injury
Broken stairs is another place where the person can get a back injury.
A set of stairs may lack a handrail, poured concrete stairs may crumble in the corners, or carpeted stairs could have loose edges that could cause a person to trip and get injured. Regardless, if a set of stairs is not correctly maintained, the person can slip and fall and be seriously injured. If you fell down the stairs and got injured in the common area of the apartment complex, office building, university, hotel, restaurant, call us at 702-432-1000 to discuss your case. You may be entitled to injury compensation.
Challenges of back injury lawsuits
When the party responsible for an accident is a government agency, the case can be challenging. For example, in cases of a bus accident, if the Clark County government is operating the vehicle, there is usually a $100,000 cap on damages per bus accident. However, the private buses in Las Vegas must carry a commercial policy with coverage up to $1,000,000 per bus accident.
Can I re-open an old case?
In some cases, yes. If you accepted a settlement without the aid of an attorney within 60 days of the accident, you could re-open your liability claim. Many restrictions apply to re-opening a case. With questions, call us at 702-432-1000.
How do you respond to a low settlement offer?
Attorneys negotiate settlement offers all the time. If you feel the offer is too low, you don't have to accept it. It is better if an experienced attorney will negotiate a settlement for you.
Time limits to file a claim
In Las Vegas and Nevada, you have two (2) years from the incident date to file a personal injury claim. It includes all back injury cases. There are exceptions to this rule. For example, the time limit is only one year for medical malpractice cases.
If you don't live in Las Vegas
If Las Vegas is not your permanent residence, but you got in an accident that caused a back injury while being in Las Vegas or Nevada, you need to file a liability claim in Nevada.
How does a back injury attorney gets paid?
We take all back injury cases on a contingency basis. If we cannot collect the settlement for you, we don't get paid, and you don't owe us anything.
We can help
Some back injuries from car accidents can heal in a matter of months with proper treatment. But others may be with the victim for the rest of their lives. Plus, there could be complications discovered many decades later.
Our law firm handles back injury cases all the time. Call us at 702-432-1000 to discuss your situation, ask to speak with our back injury attorney. The initial consultation is free.
We serve clients injured in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, Clark County, and other cities of Nevada.
We also provide house and hospital visits upon request.
Last updated on January 30, 2024.
