Nevada has long recognized the tort of “negligent entrustment”. Take the case of Zugel v. Miller, 100 Nev. 525, 688 P.2d 310 (1984) for example. In that case a 13-year-old bought a motorcycle. The boy had no driver’s license. He took a friend for a ride on a public highway. The boy admitted that he rode his motorcycle on the public roads all the time. The boy and his passenger were hurt when the motorcycle ran a stop sign and it collided with another vehicle. The Plaintiffs sued the … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
Will A New Appellate Court Mean More Nevada Jobs?
April 2, 2013 by
In the Nevada Law Blogs, we regularly discuss “Nevada Factors”. These Nevada Factors are circumstances that are unique to Nevada’s laws or judiciary which make it different from the other states. One Nevada Factor that arises over and over again is the dearth of controlling legal precedents on which Nevada civil lawyers and judges can predictably rely. The main reason why there are so few civil precedents is because Nevada has only one court of appeals. That court is the Nevada Supreme … [Read more...]
