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Which State’s Law Applies When An Accident Happens Out Of State In A Nevada Rental Car?

December 3, 2012 by

Las Vegas loves tourists and tourists love Las Vegas!!!  Of course, many tourists come here to see the hotels, the casinos and the shows.  But sometimes the hotels, casinos and shows all start to look alike.  So tourists have been known to rent cars and go wandering the Wild West to take in the natural wonders just a few hours from town, including Death Valley in California, the Grand Canyon in Arizona and Zion National Park in Utah.  That’s a lot of travel across many state lines.  So when an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accident, Choice of Law, Policy Interpretation, Rental Car, Trial Strategy Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

LexisNexis Names Nevada Insurance Law As A Top Insurance Law Blog For 2011

November 21, 2011 by

The Advisory Board of the LexisNexis Insurance Law Community has selected Mills & Associates' Nevada Insurance Law as one of the nation’s Top Insurance Law Blogs for 2011.  The Advisory Board described what it saw in the winning blogs. The Top Blogs contain some of the best writing out there on insurance law.  They contain a wealth of information for the insurance law community with timely news items, practical information, expert analysis, practice tips, frequent postings, and helpful … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Attorney's Fees, Bad Faith, Bankruptcy, Collateral Source, Comparative Fault, Contribution, Contributory Negligence, Court System, Criminal Convictions, Damages, Defaults & Default Judgments, Direct Action, Dram Shop, Duties to the Insured, Evidentiary Inferences, Expert Testimony, Federal Court, Fee Shifting, Finality, Five-Year Rule, Good Faith Settlements, Good Samaritan Law, Legal Research, Liability, Liens, Limitation of Actions, Medical Payments, Minor's Compromise, Motions for Summary Judgment, Offers of Judgment, Offsets, Parental Liability, Policy Interpretation, Rebuttable Presumptions, Removal, Res Ipsa Loquitur, Short Trial, Sovereign Immunity, Spoliation of Evidence, Stacking Policy Coverages, Statutes of Limitations, Strategies to Consider, Subrogation, Survival Actions, Technology, Title and Registration of Autos, Traffic Citations, Trial Strategy, UM/UIM, Vicarious Liability, Wrongful Death Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , ,

Got Questions?

August 3, 2010 by

These posts on the Mills & Associates Nevada Insurance Law blog are published to provide useful insights on Nevada insurance law to our clients and other subscribers. Many times the topics are suggested by recent case law, or issues raised by litigation. As part of our ongoing effort to provide both timely and helpful information, we invite all our readers to submit issues which they would like to see addressed in future blog posts. Likewise, please submit questions concerning prior … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Attorney's Fees, Bad Faith, Bankruptcy, Collateral Source, Comparative Fault, Continuing Legal Education, Contribution, Contributory Negligence, Court System, Criminal Convictions, Damages, Defaults & Default Judgments, Direct Action, Dram Shop, Duties to the Insured, Evidentiary Inferences, Expert Testimony, Federal Court, Fee Shifting, Finality, Five-Year Rule, Good Faith Settlements, Good Samaritan Law, Legal Research, Liability, Liens, Limitation of Actions, Medical Payments, Minor's Compromise, Offers of Judgment, Offsets, Parental Liability, Policy Interpretation, Rebuttable Presumptions, Removal, Res Ipsa Loquitur, Short Trial, Sovereign Immunity, Spoliation of Evidence, Stacking Policy Coverages, Statutes of Limitations, Strategies to Consider, Subrogation, Survival Actions, Technology, Title and Registration of Autos, Traffic Citations, Trial Strategy, UM/UIM, Vicarious Liability, Wrongful Death Tagged With: , , , , , , , , ,

Never Say Never

September 21, 2009 by

Why it may be ill advised for an insurance company to say that it will never go off panel to assign work to insurance defense attorneys... Recently, Mills & Associates logged into a webcast sponsored by an insurance industry organization.  The webcast’s expert panel was convened to discuss how defense attorneys could better improve the “insurance defense relationship”. As I listened to the panel members, it was reinforced to me how much insurance companies like to follow predetermined … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bad Faith, Duties to the Insured, Financial Responsibility, Panel Counsel Tips, Policy Interpretation Tagged With: , , ,