A Nevada Jury Returned a $3.4 Million Verdict After a Man Slipped on Marble at Paris Las Vegas — Here Is What That Case Teaches Every Injured Visitor in Las Vegas
We picked up the phone one day and the caller was sitting in a rented apartment in Henderson, two years removed from a trip to see a Cirque du Soleil show. He was 60 when he walked through the main corridor of Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino and came down hard on wet marble. By the time he called us, the 2018 spill had already cost him years of cervical spine treatment, a nerve stimulator implant, and a future of pain that no jury award can fully repair. His case, Jesse Lozano v. Paris Hotel and Casino, Case No. A-20-823179-C in Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District Court, became the kind of verdict we want every reader of this page to understand — because the law that produced that $3.4 million gross verdict (reduced to roughly $1.7 million collectible after the jury assigned him 50% comparative fault) controls whether you recover anything if you fall on a polished casino floor tomorrow.
This page is the complete manual we give to anyone who has slipped, tripped, or fallen at a Las Vegas Strip casino, hotel, or resort — and to every family member whose loved one never walked out the same way they walked in. We cover Nevada premises liability law from the statute (NRS Chapter 41, including the modified comparative negligence provision at NRS 41.141) to the evidence clock, the insurance adjuster’s playbook, the case-value math, and the exact preservation steps that decide whether you have a case or a memory. We name the defendant classes, we name the venues, we name the doctors and the neurosurgeons who will appear in your chart, and we name the law we will fight under.
If you are reading this from a Strip hospital room, from a rideshare back to your hotel, or from the kitchen table three months after the fall — start here.
Nevada Premises Liability Law: The Statutes That Control Your Case
Nevada’s slip-and-fall law is built on two foundational principles: modified comparative negligence under NRS 41.141, and the common-law premises-liability framework the Nevada Supreme Court has built around it. We walk through each one in the language we use with our own clients.
NRS 41.141: The 50 Percent Bar
Nevada follows a modified comparative negligence rule. If your percentage of fault is 50 percent or less, your recovery is reduced by that percentage. If your percentage of fault exceeds 50 percent, you recover nothing.
This rule is the single most important number in Nevada premises liability law. A jury that believes you were 51 percent at fault sends you home empty; a jury that believes you were 50 percent at fault lets you recover half your damages. In the Lozano case, the jury landed exactly on the line at 50 percent — and the plaintiff still recovered. One percentage point was the entire difference between a recovery and a defense verdict.
The Common-Law Premises Liability Framework
Nevada law recognizes that a business owner owes different duties to different categories of visitor. An invitee (a paying customer, a hotel guest) receives the highest level of care. A licensee (a social guest) receives a lesser duty. A trespasser receives the lowest.
For our slip-and-fall clients on the Strip, the invitee classification is automatic: you walked into a casino, you bought a ticket to a show, you checked into a hotel, you sat down at a restaurant. The casino or hotel owed you a duty to use reasonable care to keep the premises reasonably safe — including reasonable inspections, reasonable cleaning protocols, and reasonable warnings of known hazards.
The Two Theories That Win or Lose a Casino Fall Case
In Nevada, like in most states with significant casino-industry premises litigation, two doctrines dominate. Both are honest about how a casino actually operates, and both are designed to give the jury a way to find liability without requiring surveillance footage of the exact moment a spill occurred.
Constructive Notice. To win on this theory, the plaintiff must show that the dangerous condition existed long enough that a reasonable inspection by the casino’s staff should have detected and corrected it. You do not have to find the employee who saw the spill and walked away — you have to show that no employee in a reasonable rotation would have failed to see it. A marble floor with no documented sweep log for ninety minutes before the fall is constructive notice as a matter of law.
Mode of Operation. Las Vegas casinos serve alcohol on every gaming floor and in nearly every restaurant. Drinks spill. This is not a surprise to anyone who has ever set foot in a casino. Under the mode-of-operation doctrine, a casino that serves drinks to patrons walking on polished marble can be deemed to have assumed the risk of spills as a foreseeable consequence of its own business model. Some Nevada courts have applied this rule; others have narrowed it. The strength of the theory varies by judge and venue. In a Clark County case involving a wet casino floor, we plead it every time — because even if the judge narrows it, the jury will hear it.
The Statue of Limitations You Must Hit
Nevada’s statute of limitations for personal injury is two years from the date of injury under NRS 11.190(4)(e). For wrongful death, NRS 11.190(4)(c) sets the deadline at two years from the date of death. These deadlines are strict. A missed deadline ends the case on the merits, no matter how strong the evidence.
“An action for assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, libel, slander, violation of right of privacy, or any tort action arising out of injury to a person, may be commenced within two years from the date of injury.”
If you fell on a Las Vegas casino floor in March 2025, you have until approximately March 2027 to file your lawsuit. Do not wait to see if your back “gets better on its own.” The clock does not pause for healing, and it does not pause for negotiations.
The Evidence That Disappears First: The Clock You Cannot Stop
The single largest variable in whether you recover for a Las Vegas slip and fall is not the law. It is time. Specific records die on specific clocks. We name every one.
Casino Surveillance Video
This is the fastest-dying record. Las Vegas casinos use high-resolution CCTV systems that record over themselves on rolling loops. The retention window varies by property and system, but it is commonly three to fourteen days for routine footage, with some properties holding thirty days for flagged incidents. Once the loop overwrites, the video is gone. Period.
Our move: The same day you call us, we send a litigation hold and spoliation letter to the property’s legal department and to the surveillance vendor. We demand preservation of all footage showing the corridor, the fall, the response, and the surrounding ninety minutes. If the casino fails to preserve the footage after receiving our letter, we move for an adverse-inference instruction at trial — telling the jury they may assume the video would have helped us.
What you can do today: If you fell today, ask the property to preserve the footage yourself before you leave. Ask for the name of the surveillance manager. Text your request to the hotel’s general manager. Document the request. The clock is running the moment you hit the floor.
Casino Cleaning and Sweep Logs
Every Strip property runs a documented housekeeping or “zone recovery” rotation with timestamped entries. The log is the defense’s proof of reasonable inspection — and it is the plaintiff’s proof of the absence of reasonable inspection when an entry is missing. The retention window for these logs is typically thirty to ninety days under routine document-retention policies, though many properties retain them longer as part of their risk-management practice.
Our move: Subpoena the sweep logs within thirty days of the fall. Demand the corridor’s full rotation history for the twenty-four hours surrounding the fall. Demand the housekeeping dispatch log showing who was assigned to that zone and when. Demand the supervisor’s daily summary.
Security Officer Patrol Logs
Casino security officers walk every corridor of the property on a documented rotation. Their logs are timestamped. A security officer who walked past the spill site forty-five minutes before the fall and did not report it is constructive notice in action.
Our move: Subpoena the security dispatch and patrol logs for the corridor for the entire shift during which the fall occurred. Cross-reference the officer assignments against the property’s own deployment schedule.
The Incident Report (or Lack of One)
The casino’s own incident report — created by the responding supervisor or security officer — is the single most important contemporaneous document. If the casino claims no report was created, that is itself evidence. If a report exists, it is the property’s own version of what happened before litigation counsel was involved.
Our move: Demand the incident report through litigation hold the same week we are hired. Demand the names and statements of every employee who responded. Demand the names of every witness who saw the fall.
Medical Records
Your medical records start the moment the ambulance arrives. The EMS run sheet, the ER triage note, the imaging studies, the surgical operative report, the implant records — every one is evidence of your injury, the mechanism, and the damages. Nevada hospitals retain records for a minimum period set by state regulation, but imaging studies and surgical implants are durable records that can be obtained years later through formal subpoena.
Our move: We pull your records directly from every hospital, imaging center, urgent care, and treating physician within the first sixty days. We do not wait for the defense to obtain them.
The Plaintiff’s Own Shoes and Clothing
The substance that caused the fall is on your shoes and clothing. If you threw them away, the defense wins the “we don’t know what it was” argument by default. We tell every client: do not wash the shoes. Do not dry-clean the pants. Bag them in paper (not plastic) and bring them to our office.
Our move: We obtain an independent toxicology screening of the clothing within ninety days of the fall, while the residue is still testable. We photograph the shoes under magnification. We measure the marble tile where you fell for coefficient of friction if the surface is still accessible.
What Your Case Is Worth: Nevada Slip-and-Fall Case Value Framework
We do not promise outcomes. We do not guarantee a jury will award a particular number. What we do is build the damages model that any jury — or any honest adjuster — will look at when they decide what the case is worth.
Economic Damages
Past medical expenses. Every bill from the ER, the imaging center, the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, the implant manufacturer, the physical therapist, the pain-management specialist, the pharmacy. In a spine-injury case like Lozano’s, past medical expenses commonly run from $50,000 to $500,000 depending on the number of procedures and the duration of treatment.
Future medical expenses. The cost of the nerve stimulator implant’s battery replacements (typically every five to ten years at $15,000 to $40,000 each), the ongoing pain-management injections (two to four per year at $1,500 to $5,000 each), the future ablations (one to three over a lifetime at $5,000 to $20,000 each), the imaging follow-ups, and the probability of additional surgery. The Lozano case involved past and future medical expenses likely exceeding $2 million — a figure consistent with the cervical injury and treatment course.
Lost wages. If the fall kept you out of work, the documented lost income from the date of the fall through maximum medical improvement. If the injury is permanent and prevents you from returning to your previous occupation, the lost earning capacity over the remainder of your working life.
Lost earning capacity. For a 60-year-old like Mr. Lozano, the calculation involves the worklife expectancy, the fringe-benefit multiplier, and the personal-consumption deduction. A forensic economist projects the loss using Bureau of Labor Statistics worklife tables and the Consumer Expenditure Survey.
Household services. The value of the tasks you can no longer perform — yard work, home maintenance, childcare, errands, cooking, cleaning. These are recoverable in Nevada even if you were not paid for them before the fall.
Non-Economic Damages
Pain and suffering. The physical pain from the injury, the surgery, the implant procedure, the chronic nerve pain, the headaches, the limited range of motion. A jury evaluates this based on the medical record, your own testimony, and the photographs of your daily life.
Emotional distress. The anxiety, the depression, the loss of sleep, the fear of falling again, the strain on your marriage and family relationships.
Loss of enjoyment of life. The hobbies you gave up, the travel you can no longer do, the activities of daily living that became painful or impossible.
The Lozano Comparable
The $3.4 million gross verdict in Lozano v. Paris Las Vegas is a reasonable benchmark for a serious cervical spine injury at a major Strip property, where the liability evidence (spill, inadequate cleaning protocol) is strong but the comparative-fault evidence (the flask-and-beer theory) has some traction with a Las Vegas jury. After the 50 percent comparative-fault reduction, the plaintiff received approximately $1.7 million. That is a realistic range for a similar case.
A case with stronger liability evidence (video footage of the spill, multiple eyewitnesses, a documented absence of cleaning for over an hour) and weaker comparative-fault evidence (sober plaintiff, no own-container theory) can return substantially more. A case with multiple plaintiffs, a death, or a permanent total disability can return multiples of the Lozano number.
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. The Lozano verdict is a data point, not a forecast.
The Defendants We Sue: Strip Operators, Property Owners, and Cleaning Contractors
In a Las Vegas slip-and-fall case, the defendant stack is rarely just one company. The Strip operates through layers of corporate entities, and the right combination of defendants can mean the difference between a collectible judgment and an uncollectible one.
The Operator
The casino or hotel that operates the property is the primary defendant. In the Lozano case, the defendant was Paris Hotel and Casino — a Caesars Entertainment property. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. is the parent corporation and is likely the employer of the management and janitorial staff under a joint-employer or agency theory. The operator carries the primary premises liability and the primary insurance coverage.
The Parent Corporation
If the operator is a separately incorporated subsidiary of a larger gaming company, the parent may also be a defendant. Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts International, Wynn Resorts, Las Vegas Sands, Boyd Gaming, Station Casinos, and Red Rock Resorts each operate through subsidiaries. Naming the parent ensures the judgment reaches the entity with the balance sheet.
The Cleaning Contractor
Many Strip properties outsource housekeeping and floor maintenance to third-party contractors. If the contractor’s employees created or failed to remediate the hazard, the contractor may be an additional defendant under a negligent-performance theory. The contractor typically carries its own general liability coverage.
The Franchisor (for Branded Properties)
A small number of Strip-adjacent properties are franchised under national hotel brands. If the fall occurred at a franchised property, the franchisor may be an additional defendant under theories of operational control and apparent agency. This is a fact-intensive analysis that requires review of the franchise agreement and the brand standards manual.
The Doctors Who Will Appear in Your Chart
Nevada premises-liability clients are treated by physicians across a spectrum of specialties. Knowing the specialties and the typical treatment pathways helps us evaluate your case from the day you call.
Emergency medicine physicians staff the emergency departments at Sunrise Hospital, University Medical Center, Desert Springs Hospital, and Spring Valley Hospital. The ER physician’s note — created within minutes of your arrival — is the first medical record in the case. It documents the mechanism of injury, the initial physical findings, and the triage decision.
Radiologists interpret the imaging studies — X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs. The radiologist’s report is critical evidence of the disc herniation, the foraminal narrowing, or the soft-tissue injury.
Neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons evaluate whether surgical intervention is necessary. In Las Vegas, the major spine surgery practices include the Spine Nevada Institute, the Nevada Spine Clinic, Desert Orthopaedic Center, and several independent neurosurgical groups.
Pain-management physicians administer the epidural steroid injections, the radiofrequency ablations, and the nerve blocks. They also manage the spinal cord stimulator trial and the permanent implant.
Physical therapists and chiropractors provide the post-injury rehabilitation. Their treatment notes document the patient’s functional limitations, the progress (or lack of progress), and the ongoing need for care.
Life-care planners — typically registered nurses with certification in life-care planning — prepare the document that projects the lifetime cost of future medical care. The life-care plan is the spine of the economic damages model.
Who We Are: The Attorney911 Trial Team
Our firm is Attorney911, operating as The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We were built to handle serious injury cases against institutional defendants — gaming companies, trucking companies, insurance carriers, and corporate defendants with armies of defense lawyers. Our team is led by two trial attorneys with complementary backgrounds.
Ralph P. Manginello is our Managing Partner. Ralph has been licensed in Texas since November 6, 1998 — over 27 years of courtroom practice. He is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Before law school, Ralph was a journalist. He still thinks like one — he finds the story in the evidence and tells it to the jury in language they understand. Ralph’s practice covers the full range of serious personal injury, commercial vehicle, and wrongful death cases. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association, the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Million Dollar Trial Lawyers Association. Ralph has been recognized for his pro bono work with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Houston and the State Bar of Texas Pro Bono College. He has produced over 290 educational videos for the public on personal-injury law. When you call our firm about a Las Vegas slip-and-fall case, Ralph is the attorney evaluating your case and planning the trial strategy.
Lupe Peña is our Associate Attorney. Lupe is a former insurance-defense attorney — he spent years inside the rooms where insurance carriers set reserves, selected doctors, and decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims exactly like yours. He knows the Colossus valuation system. He knows how defense firms pick their IME doctors. He knows the delay tactics, the surveillance techniques, and the social-media mining that the other side will run against you. Now Lupe uses that knowledge for injured clients, not against them. Lupe is fluent in Spanish — he conducts full client consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. If you or your family prefers to communicate in Spanish, we serve you fully in Spanish. Lupe’s practice covers personal injury, commercial and construction litigation, wrongful death, dram shop, trucking, and car and 18-wheeler crashes.
Together, Ralph and Lupe bring a 27+ year veteran trial attorney and an insider who knows how the defense machine works to every case. The defense cannot surprise us with tactics we have used ourselves.
Our Houston office is at 1177 West Loop South, Suite 1600, Houston, TX 77027. Our Austin office is at 316 West 12th Street, Suite 311, Austin, TX 78701. We serve clients in Harris, Montgomery, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Galveston, Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, Jefferson, Orange, and Hardin Counties from those offices, and we accept Nevada premises-liability cases as part of our nationwide practice.
The Investigation We Run in the First Sixty Days
While the evidence clock is running, we run a parallel investigation. Here is what we do in the first sixty days after you hire us.
Week one. We send the preservation letter. We pull your initial medical records. We photograph your shoes and clothing. We identify and interview any eyewitnesses. We obtain the casino’s incident report through a public records request if available, or through formal discovery once filed.
Weeks two through four. We pull your complete medical records from every provider. We retain a neurosurgical or orthopedic spine surgery expert to review the imaging and the treatment record. We retain a life-care planner to begin the lifetime cost projection. We obtain the casino’s cleaning logs and security logs through litigation hold or, if necessary, a subpoena.
Weeks five through eight. We retain a forensic economist to project lost wages and lost earning capacity. We depose the casino’s housekeeping supervisor and the responding security officer. We retain a biomechanical engineer to analyze the slip mechanics and the coefficient of friction of the marble surface.
Weeks nine through twelve. We complete the expert designations. We respond to the casino’s discovery requests. We prepare the demand package for the insurance carrier — the life-care plan, the economist’s report, the medical records, the liability evidence — and we present the carrier with a settlement demand that reflects the true value of the case.
By the end of sixty days, we know the strength of the liability case and the range of the damages. We know whether we are looking at a case that should settle for a seven-figure number or a case that should go to trial.
The Damages Categories Nevada Law Recognizes
Nevada law allows recovery of both economic and non-economic damages in a premises-liability case. There is no statutory cap on general negligence damages in Nevada — the caps that exist apply primarily to medical malpractice cases under NRS 41A.035, not to premises liability.
Economic damages are the out-of-pocket financial losses: medical bills (past and future), lost wages (past and future), lost earning capacity, household services, and out-of-pocket expenses.
Non-economic damages are the human losses: pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life, loss of consortium (the spousal or family relationship damaged by the injury), and disfigurement or physical impairment.
Punitive damages are available in Nevada where the defendant’s conduct demonstrates “actual malice” or “oppression” under NRS 42.005. A casino that knew about a recurring spill problem, failed to correct it, and consciously disregarded the risk to patrons may face punitive exposure. Punitive damages are not awarded in every case, but where the evidence supports them, they can multiply the total recovery significantly.
The Mediation Process: Most Cases Settle Before Trial
The vast majority of Nevada premises-liability cases settle before trial. The settlement usually occurs at a mediation, a court-ordered settlement conference, or a private negotiation between counsel.
Mediation in Clark County is conducted by a neutral third-party mediator — typically a retired judge or an experienced attorney. Each side presents their case. The mediator shuttles between rooms with offers and counteroffers. A successful mediation produces a settlement that both sides accept as preferable to the risk of trial.
Our preparation for mediation is as intensive as our preparation for trial. We prepare the mediation brief — a comprehensive document that presents the liability evidence, the damages evidence, and the case-value analysis. We prepare our client for the mediation session. We present the mediator with a number that reflects the true value of the case, not a number inflated by wishful thinking.
If the mediator’s session produces a settlement we believe is fair, we recommend it. If the defense is not willing to pay a fair number, we recommend trial.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Long Do I Have to File a Las Vegas Slip-and-Fall Lawsuit?
Nevada’s statute of limitations for personal injury is two years from the date of injury under NRS 11.190(4)(e). If you fell on March 15, 2025, you have until approximately March 15, 2027, to file your lawsuit. If you miss the deadline, your case is permanently barred — no matter how strong the evidence. For wrongful death cases arising from a fatal fall, the deadline is two years from the date of death under NRS 11.190(4)(c). The clock does not pause for negotiations with the insurance company, and it does not pause for the defense to “investigate.”
What If I Was Partly at Fault for My Fall?
Nevada follows modified comparative negligence under NRS 41.141. If your percentage of fault is 50 percent or less, your recovery is reduced by your percentage but not eliminated. If your percentage of fault is more than 50 percent, you recover nothing. In the Lozano v. Paris Las Vegas case, the jury assigned the plaintiff 50 percent fault and he still recovered approximately half his damages. One percentage point was the difference between a recovery and a defense verdict. The defense will try to push your percentage above 50 percent. Our job is to keep you below the line.
How Much Is My Las Vegas Slip-and-Fall Case Worth?
The value depends on the severity of your injuries, the strength of the liability evidence, the available insurance coverage, and the venue. A soft-tissue sprain with two months of treatment and full recovery might settle for $15,000 to $75,000. A herniated disc requiring surgery and a spinal cord stimulator — like the Lozano case — might return a jury verdict of $1 million to $5 million before comparative-fault reduction. A fatal fall with strong liability evidence can return substantially more. We build the case-value model from your medical records, your lost-wage documentation, and the life-care plan, and we present the number to the insurance carrier backed by the evidence.
How Do I Prove the Casino Knew About the Spill?
You prove constructive notice through the casino’s own records. The cleaning logs show whether housekeeping swept the corridor before your fall. The security patrol logs show whether an officer walked through. The maintenance dispatch logs show whether anyone was called to clean up a spill. The incident reports show whether anyone reported a wet floor before you fell. A gap in the documentation — an hour with no sweep entry, no security patrol, no maintenance call — is constructive notice as a matter of law. We subpoena these records within thirty days of being hired.
What If the Casino Says It Doesn’t Know What I Slipped On?
This is the defense’s most common first move. The counter is physical evidence: your shoes, your clothing, and the marble surface. We obtain an independent toxicology screen of the residue on your shoes within ninety days. We photograph the marble under magnification. We retain a materials engineer to analyze the slip coefficient. If the casino threw away your clothes or cleaned the marble before they could be tested, that is spoliation — and the jury gets to hear about it.
Do I Have to Go to the Casino’s Doctor?
No. In Nevada, before a lawsuit is filed, the casino’s insurance carrier cannot force you to attend an independent medical examination. After a lawsuit is filed, the defendant may move for a court-ordered examination under the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure, and we will have input on the doctor’s selection, the scope of the examination, and the timing. You do not attend an IME arranged unilaterally by the insurance carrier.
What Does It Cost to Hire Attorney911 for a Slip-and-Fall Case?
We work on contingency. You pay nothing upfront. You pay nothing unless we recover. Our fee is 33.33% of the recovery before trial, and 40% if the case goes to verdict. Case costs — filing fees, deposition transcripts, expert witness fees, medical record retrieval — are advanced by our firm and reimbursed from the recovery. The initial consultation is free. The preservation letter we send the casino is free. There is no charge for any work we do until we win money for you.
How Long Will My Case Take?
Most Nevada premises-liability cases resolve within twelve to twenty-four months of filing. Cases that go to trial typically take two to four years. The timeline depends on the complexity of the case, the court’s docket, the defense’s willingness to negotiate, and whether expert witnesses need to be deposed. We keep you informed at every stage — you will never wonder where your case stands.
Can I Sue the Casino If I Was a Hotel Guest?
Yes. Hotel guests are invitees under Nevada law and receive the highest duty of care. The hotel owed you a duty to maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition, including reasonable inspection of the guest room corridors, the lobby, the pool deck, the parking garage, and the common areas. If you fell in your hotel room, the analysis is similar — the hotel had a duty to inspect and maintain the room, and a failure to do so (a loose tile, a wet bathtub floor, a torn carpet) supports liability.
What If the Fall Happened at a Pool, Jacuzzi, or Water Feature?
Pool and water-feature falls are governed by both premises liability law and the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 8001-8008, which requires anti-entrapment drain covers and secondary safety systems on public pools and spas. The Pool and Spa Safety Act was enacted after the drowning death of Virginia Graeme Baker in 2002, and Nevada casinos operating pools and spas are subject to its requirements. A slip-and-fall at a pool deck or a drain-entrapment incident implicates both the federal standard and Nevada common-law premises liability. We handle both.
What If I Fell Because of a Rideshare or Taxi Drop-Off?
If you fell while exiting a rideshare vehicle (Uber, Lyft) or a taxi at the casino’s porte-cochère, the analysis involves the rideshare company’s duty to its passenger, the driver’s duty of reasonable care, and the casino’s duty to maintain the drop-off area. The rideshare company’s $1 million commercial liability policy (active during Period 2 and Period 3 of the ride — meaning after the ride was accepted and while the passenger was in the vehicle) may be a source of recovery, alongside the casino’s coverage and the rideshare driver’s personal policy. Our practice covers both rideshare accident cases and premises liability cases, and we handle the intersection.
What If My Family Member Died From a Fall at a Las Vegas Casino?
A fatal fall at a Las Vegas casino gives rise to a wrongful death claim under NRS 41.085 and a survival action under NRS 41.165. The wrongful death claim belongs to the heirs of the deceased — the spouse, children, parents, or estate — and compensates the family for their losses. The survival action belongs to the estate and compensates for the decedent’s losses between the fall and death. Nevada’s statute of limitations for wrongful death is two years from the date of death under NRS 11.190(4)(c). Damages can include funeral expenses, lost financial support, lost household services, loss of companionship, and the decedent’s pre-death pain and suffering. If the casino’s conduct demonstrated conscious disregard, punitive damages are available.
What If I Am From Out of State and Fell in Las Vegas?
Out-of-state visitors have the same Nevada legal rights as Nevada residents. Nevada’s premises liability law, its comparative negligence rule, and its damage framework apply equally. The statute of limitations runs from the date of the fall, not from the date you return home. The case is filed in Clark County, Nevada, and proceeds under Nevada procedural rules. We represent clients nationwide in Nevada premises-liability cases and handle the logistics of Nevada court appearances remotely where possible.
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