Las Vegas Visitor Slip and Fall Accident Tips

After you return home following a Slip and Fall Accident while visiting Las Vegas, you may be uncertain of which lawyer to hire or even if you should hire a personal injury lawyer. Let me tell you something that can help you win your case:

You should not give a tape recorded or written statement to the insurance adjuster unless an experienced personal injury lawyer from Las Vegas is on the phone with you at the time. There are many laws that affect your case and you need to understand them and the way they work by talking to your lawyer BEFORE you talk to the insurance adjuster about the facts of how you fell. For example, Nevada has a Comparative Negligence Law that provides that the Las Vegas business where you slipped and fell does not owe you a penny if you are considered to be more than 50% at fault for the accident. To understand this requires experience from handling many of these cases. The insurance representatives are looking to apply this law based upon what you say to them and will deny any payment on your case if they think they can win with this law.

You need to hire a personal injury lawyer licensed in Las Vegas for several reasons and specifically an experienced lawyer located in Las Vegas. You can call Personal Injury Lawyer Jack Bernstein or his partner, Lawyer Scott Poisson now and speak to them personally at 1-888-592-4529 or 702-434-4444 and go over your case at no charge. You can email them now and they will respond if on line immediately or in a short time at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it '; document.write( '' ); document.write( addy_text37690 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //-->\n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The most important reason to hire a local lawyer for a slip and fall accident that happened in Las Vegas is that only a lawyer licensed in Nevada is allowed to practice law in Nevada as your lawyer and file a lawsuit if needed. You should not hire a lawyer from your state to work on your slip and fall accident. (If you have already done so, you have the absolute right to terminate that lawyer from representing you and our office will send them a letter terminating them where you will never have to speak to them again and our office will tell them they are not allowed to get paid if they are not licensed to practice law in Nevada) The insurance adjuster will know that your lawyer for your accident in Las Vegas is not located in Las Vegas and is not a Las Vegas lawyer. This can affect the outcome of your case. The insurance adjuster will be aware that your out of state lawyer cannot file a lawsuit in the Las Vegas District Court. The adjuster will usually offer less money knowing the out of state lawyer cannot file a lawsuit and cost the insurance company thousands and typically tens of thousands of dollars to defend your slip and fall accident case.

Hiring a Local Las Vegas Slip & Fall Accident Lawyer

A local Las Vegas Lawyer such as attorney Jack Bernstein (I have personally written this article based on my own experience) who handled personal injury slip and fall accident cases for twenty seven years is familiar with the slip and fall accident laws that affect your case. For example, we are entitled to get a copy of the slip and fall accident report prepared after you fell and the video of your accident which many times exist since there is so much video surveillance in Las Vegas businesses. In many states the incident report is not discoverable by the injured person. Of crucial importance is the two year statute of limitation to bring a Las Vegas slip and fall accident case in court. After two years you are barred from receiving money for your Las Vegas slip and fall accident case. There are hospital lien laws that apply to a Las Vegas slip and fall accident that require payment to the hospital and specific requirements for the liens to apply.

At Jack Bernstein and Associates, we file our own lawsuits in the Clark County District Court for Visitors who have a Las Vegas slip and fall accident. Our staff of four experienced Las Vegas personal injury lawyers negotiate our own cases. If they don't settle we do not refer your Las Vegas Slip and Fall Accident case to another law firm to file the slip and fall accident lawsuit. We file it ourselves. That is important because the insurance adjusters know our reputation for filing our own lawsuits for Visitors to Las Vegas injured in a Slip and fall Accident and know that we will not have to "divide" our lawyer fee with another lawyer if it becomes necessary to file a lawsuit on your case. The insurance representatives know they will have to pay the maximum settlement to you for your personal injuries from the Las Vegas slip and fall accident when we negotiate your case.

If you were hurt while visiting Las Vegas in a slip and fall accident and in need of medical care, and possibly without health insurance , we will sign a letter of protection with a doctor near your house to for you to receive medical care and await the personal injury settlement before paying the doctor.

We will email you our forms to allow us to represent you for your slip and fall accident while visiting Las Vegas. They are simple information forms. You can fax, mail, or email them back. We will email you the easy instructions to help you fill them out. We will assign a case manager and one of the Las Vegas slip and fall personal injury Lawyers on staff. The lawyer Jack Bernstein with over twenty seven years as a personal injury lawyer will help make sure you obtain the highest money damage recovery possible.

Experienced Las Vegas Slip & Fall Accident Attorneys

You should immediately seek the advice of an experienced Las Vegas Slip and fall Accident lawyer such as Jack Bernstein of Jack Bernstein and Associates who has handled slip and accident cases for more than twenty seven years. Slip and Fall insurance companies hire licensed insurance adjusters to handle the claim processing of your Las Vegas Slip and fall accident. The insurance adjuster's interest is to protect the insurance company or business, and not to represent the Las Vegas slip and fall accident victim. The slip and fall accident insurance adjusters job on a slip and fall accident claim for a person injured while visiting Las Vegas is to pay the minimum they can or to pay nothing if possible. They are interested in maximizing company profit and not in giving a Las Vegas slip and fall accident victim the most money possible or in trying to get you the best medical care. Their goal is to pay you the least money possible. It is important to hire a local Las Vegas Lawyer such as Jack Bernstein who is familiar with the insurance companies and fighting for the rights of the visitors to Las Vegas that are injured in a slip and fall accident.

Trying to handle your own bodily injury claim is not wise. It also is not in your best interest to rush into a bodily injury settlement after a slip and fall accident in Las Vegas. If you are in pain, you should go to a doctor who is trained in assisting slip and fall accident and other injury victims. You should receive medical care, therapy, chiropractic care and care as your physician(s) determine based upon your physical injuries. Some injuries (such as nerve injuries) get worse slowly, rather than improve. Physicians and Chiropractors trained in handling slip and fall accident injuries will order an MRI or CT Scan to diagnose structural injuries such as herniated or bulging discs which need more invasive medical care to heal such as injections or disc surgery. There are nerve injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome or brain injuries that sometimes develop over several months. It is important not to rush to sign a release and settle your Las Vegas slip and fall accident case. You will not be legally allowed to go back to the insurance adjuster and get more money after you sign the release even if your injuries get progressively worse.

Normally a doctor will require up front payment for medical care. Needing to pay cash for medical care following a slip and fall accident where you might find yourself unable to work, comes at the worst possible time. Our case manager will contact your doctor and help you find a medical office close to your home, and our lawyers will sign a letter of protection allowing you to wait to pay the doctor out of the insurance settlement for the slip and fall accident in Las Vegas. MRI and CT Scan centers, orthopedic doctors, and other medical offices will normally give you medical care and wait to get paid until your personal injury case is finished.

Las Vegas Injury Lawyers

The reason you need an experienced lawyer like Jack Bernstein who handles Las Vegas slip and fall accident cases is that he and the lawyers on his staff will sign the letter of protection and the doctor will trust his office to pay their medical charges out of the settlement. It is a requirement of the rules governing Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyers for the lawyer to honor the doctor's letter of protection. Without a Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyer, the medical provider does not have the same level of protection since the patient is not bound by the rules of Professional Ethics. The doctor would have to file a lawsuit against you if they did not get paid out of the settlement money. Doctors will usually treat you for your slip and fall accident injuries with an experienced Lawyer such as Jack Bernstein since they are used to doing this on accident cases where a settlement is obtained after the medical care is completed.

Funding companies that will loan money to a visitor to Las Vegas who had a slip and fall accident will do so only when there is an lawyer handling the Las Vegas car accident case who agrees to pay the loan back at the time of settlement. The rules governing Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyers require them to pay the loan back out of the settlement. Without a personal injury lawyer such as Jack Bernstein, the loan company would have to file a lawsuit against you to recover their loan at the time of settlement if you did not voluntarily pay them back, and they won't take that risk.

I cannot stress strongly enough the importance of hiring a local Las Vegas Slip and Fall Accident lawyer such as Jack Bernstein. Consider that the insurance adjusters that decide how much to offer for your Las Vegas Slip and Fall Accident claim take into account the difficulty that exists on your case to file a lawsuit in the Clark County District Court if they don't offer you a fair settlement. They know it takes an experienced Las Vegas slip and fall accident litigator to file a lawsuit and that the average person will not be able to do that with the complex procedural rules needed to handle a Las Vegas slip and fall accident case in Clark County District Court which is where your Las Vegas Car accident case needs to be filed. Even if your case seems like a slam dunk to you, they will know you can't litigate it yourself. For that same reason, an out of state lawyer who is not licensed in Nevada should not handle your accident case. The insurance adjuster will know the lawyer could have incentive to settle for a lower amount of money because their firm will not be licensed to file suit on your case should it not settle. You should not take that risk.

Don't believe that you will be giving away money that you would otherwise get yourself by hiring a lawyer. Experienced lawyers such as Jack Bernstein who oversee every case in his law firm add great value and cause your case to settle on average for a significantly larger amount of money. I personally am involved in every negotiated settlement in my law office and go over the offers and demands personally with my staff of lawyers and handle many of the negotiations myself. I have worked on thousands of cases and know the values of slip and fall accident case injuries. Normally an experienced lawyer will get you a higher personal injury settlement which should easily cover the lawyer fees their office earns. It is important to understand that your slip and fall accident case is handled on a contingency basis. You will not have to pay any lawyer fees to Jack Bernstein and Associates unless you win your case through settlement out of court or through a lawsuit in court.

Jack Bernstein or his partner Scott Poisson would be glad to personally speak to you to discuss the facts of your slip and fall or any accident case. Call Jack or Scott for a free consultation at 702-434-4444 or 1-888-592-4529.