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Las Vegas Defense Lawyers adds Aileen Cohen to Board

At Bauman Loewe Witt & Maxwell we are pleased to announce that Las Vegas Defense Lawyers (LVDL) members elected Aileen E. Cohen, Esq. to its Board of Directors.  The election took place at the Fifth Annual LVDL Dinner on March 30, 2017. Aileen will be working on LVDL advocacy efforts in support of the civil litigation defense bar before the Nevada Legislature in addition to other ongoing projects to promote LVDL objectives. Las Vegas Defense Lawyers is an organization of attorneys … [Read more...]

Nevada Finds That An Assigned Insurance Defense Attorney Has An Attorney-Client Relationship With Both The Insured Defendant And The Insurer Who Assigned The Case

A Las Vegas insurance defense attorney was seeing great success prosecuting plaintiff’s cases.  No surprise that the insurance companies were moving their business to other insurance defense attorneys.  Then came the fateful day as reported in Nevada Yellow Cab Corp. v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Court, 123 Nev. 44, 152 P.3d 737 (2007). The target defendant was insured by a carrier with whom the attorney had previously done business.  The insurance company took exception.  The company filed a motion to … [Read more...]