Las Vegas Truck Accident Lawyer

Last updated: September 21, 2026

Who else can be held liable in a Las Vegas truck accident besides the driver? Often, more than one party may be liable for a Las Vegas truck accident. The trucking company may be responsible for its driver’s actions, while a cargo loader, maintenance contractor, or parts manufacturer could also share liability if their negligence contributed to the crash. A Las Vegas personal injury lawyer can investigate the accident and identify all potentially responsible parties, which may be especially important in a multi-defendant claim. Under Nevada’s comparative negligence law (NRS 41.141), fault may be divided among responsible parties based on their percentage of fault.

On this page: What to do right after the crash · What happens behind the scenes · Common causes · Common injuries · Who may be liable · What you can recover · Filing deadline · Why you need a lawyer · The claim process · Attorney insight: why these get complicated · Choosing a lawyer · Testimonials · Case results · Areas served · Local resources · FAQs · Contact us · Other cases we handle

Commercial trucks are a constant part of Las Vegas Valley traffic, moving freight along I-15, US-95, and the I-215 Beltway to distribution centers, businesses, and resorts. When one crashes, the evidence that decides the claim can involve far more than what police find at the scene.

Two things separate these cases from an ordinary car crash: the weight – roughly 80,000 pounds, some 20 to 30 times more than a passenger car – means the injuries tend to be serious. And most of these rigs run interstate, which means federal trucking rules apply whether the crash happened at the Spaghetti Bowl or on a side street in Spring Valley.

Edward M. Bernstein & Associates has handled Nevada truck claims against carriers and their insurers. Learn more about our firm and the way we push back against carriers and the insurers standing behind them.

• Fighting for Nevada since 1977: Our Las Vegas attorneys have represented injured people across the valley, Henderson, and greater Clark County for more than four decades, building the litigation experience and legal resources it takes to stand up for victims of commercial-vehicle collisions.
• A $1 billion-plus track record: Verdicts and settlements across the firm now top $1 billion, with a 95% success rate along the way — a benchmark, not a promise of what your own case will bring.
• Built for court from week one: Our attorneys — founder Ed Bernstein, managing partner Patti S. Wise, and partner Brian E. Lunt — start a truck file with the evidence demands and expert work a jury trial would require, whether or not it ever reaches one. Former clients share their experience in our client reviews.
• No fee unless we win: There’s no bill unless your case pays off, and your first meeting with us won’t cost you a cent — get in touch with our Las Vegas office whenever you’re ready.

From routine car accident claims to catastrophic commercial-truck wrecks, our Las Vegas team handles the full range of motor-vehicle cases. Don’t sit on it, though: NRS 11.190(4)(e) generally gives you two years to sue in Nevada, and a carrier’s electronic logs are often gone well before that clock runs out.

What should you do immediately after a truck accident in Las Vegas?

Once a big rig pulls away from the scene, so does most of the proof, and the carrier’s own people may already be building their side of the story before you’ve even left. Which agency responds depends on where you were hit: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department handles surface street crashes, while the Nevada Highway Patrol covers freeway crashes — I-15, US-95, and the Spaghetti Bowl where they meet. Warehouse and delivery traffic puts commercial trucks on both, so don’t assume a surface-street wreck means a small local truck and a small local policy.

Many carriers send their own investigators out to a serious crash quickly, sometimes the same day, which is why documenting what you can yourself, early, works in your favor.

• Get pictures of the truck itself before it’s gone. Tractor, trailer, the carrier’s name on the door, the USDOT number, plates, and anything printed on the cargo — that’s the paper trail a lawyer uses to track down exactly who’s responsible.
• Get checked out even if you feel fine at the scene. Adrenaline hides pain well. The most serious crash injuries in Las Vegas go to Level I trauma centers such as University Medical Center of Southern Nevada and Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center, and a medical record created right after the crash carries more weight with an insurer than one from days later.
• Confirm an officer actually files a report. Whether that falls to LVMPD or the Nevada Highway Patrol depends on where you were hit, and Nevada law obligates the at-fault driver to stop and exchange information (NRS 484E.030).
• Track down names and phone numbers for anyone who watched it unfold. A bystander with nothing to gain can undercut the carrier’s version of events once it surfaces.
• Don’t give a recorded statement. You owe the trucking company’s insurer nothing – not a recorded interview, not a blanket medical authorization that hands them your entire health history. These calls often open with friendly questions about how you are feeling. An offhand answer given before anyone has examined you properly can be written down and read back to you months later, once the imaging says otherwise.

Still, nothing on that list outweighs the truck’s own electronic footprint. Its logging device, its hours-of-service records, and its maintenance files can all be overwritten or purged within days of the crash. What stops that is a lawyer’s preservation letter — a spoliation letter, in the trade — a written notice to the carrier and its insurer to freeze those files for this crash and shut off the automatic overwrite. It does a second job too: it dates the moment the company was told, so anything that goes missing afterward goes missing on the record.

What actually happens after a truck accident in Las Vegas?

Expect a longer paper trail than you’d get from a routine car-crash claim. The Nevada Highway Patrol takes freeway wrecks on I-15 or US-95, and a full reconstruction on a serious commercial crash can push their report out for days; LVMPD’s online crash report request system is where you’ll find the paperwork once a surface-street case wraps up.

Meanwhile, the clock is already running on the carrier’s side. Its insurer and defense counsel go to work right away, and nearly everything they need to fight your claim — ELD downloads, hours-of-service logs, maintenance paperwork — never leaves the trucking company’s own servers unless someone forces the issue. Bringing in a lawyer early is what stops that proof from quietly disappearing before your case ever gets to use it.

What are the most common causes of truck accidents in Las Vegas?

Freight moves through this valley two different ways, and the crashes follow the split. There’s the long-haul run — a driver deep into a multi-state trip on I-15, working to a delivery window someone in another state set — and there’s local distribution, box trucks and tractor-trailers cycling between warehouses and the docks behind stores, restaurants, and resorts. Fatigue, cut-corner scheduling, and neglected equipment turn up in both. Federal safety standards for interstate trucking come from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and a crash usually traces back to a carrier or driver breaking one of these specific rules:

• Worn brakes and skipped maintenance. The inspection and maintenance rules (49 CFR Part 396) require a carrier to inspect and repair its equipment on a schedule, have the driver file a written inspection report at the end of a day’s run, and keep that paperwork. The file cuts both ways: it is also where you find out a driver reported a soft brake pedal three runs before the crash and nobody touched it.
• No-zone collisions, where a driver changing lanes on the Beltway or swinging a full-length trailer wide into a delivery entrance never sees the smaller vehicle beside them — the tighter the dock approach, the wider the swing.
• Overweight or improperly secured cargo that shifts mid-drive, in violation of the cargo-securement rules (49 CFR Part 393), which set minimums for how many tiedowns a load needs and how much weight each one has to hold. Get that wrong, and a pallet walks forward the first time the driver stands on the brakes — which is how you get rollovers and debris across live lanes. On an interstate run, the trailer is often packed and sealed at a dock hundreds of miles away, which is why the shipper can end up a defendant alongside the driver who hauled it.
• Trucking company negligence, including poor hiring, inadequate training, thin supervision, and schedules that push drivers past legal hours.
• Driver fatigue and hours-of-service violations — The federal hours-of-service limits (49 CFR Part 395) are specific numbers, not general advice: after ten straight hours off duty, a freight driver gets up to eleven hours of driving inside a fourteen-hour on-duty window, and then has to stop. The electronic logging device records all of it whether the driver likes it or not — which is why a long haul up I-15 from Southern California, run against a delivery window somebody else set, tends to show up as an hours violation before it ever shows up as a crash.

The national numbers describe what a Las Vegas truck file usually looks like: large-truck crashes killed 5,340 people in 2024, and the person who died was riding in a car or other passenger vehicle roughly 62% of the time — not in the truck itself (IIHS). The consequence is lopsided: the truck driver usually walks away and gives their account at the scene, while yours comes later, from a hospital bed, after the carrier has gathered statements and photographs.

Types of truck accidents we see

• Jackknife crashes, where the cab swings out from the trailer at an angle, often on wet pavement or during hard braking.
• Override and underride crashes, where a passenger vehicle is crushed under or driven over by a trailer — among the deadliest truck-crash types.
• Cargo-related crashes, where a load that shifted — sometimes one the driver never watched being packed — rolls the trailer or scatters debris across live lanes.

What types of injuries are common in truck accidents?

The sheer size mismatch between a truck and a car means truck crashes tend to produce injuries on the more severe end of the spectrum. Roughly 7 out of every 10 fatalities happen to someone in the other car, not the truck cab, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration counts north of 150,000 injuries from large-truck wrecks in an average year. Here’s what we see most often:

• Traumatic brain injuries (TBI): The brain doesn’t need to strike anything directly — violent shaking alone can bruise or tear its tissue. Some victims walk away with a concussion that fades into headaches and forgetfulness; others suffer damage severe enough to permanently change their speech, movement, or ability to think clearly.
• Spinal cord injuries: When the force of a collision twists or compresses the spine, a fractured vertebra or a damaged cord can follow — and depending on where along the spine it happens, the result can mean paralysis and a lifetime of ongoing medical treatment.
• Broken bones and internal injuries: Getting crushed in a rollover or an underride collision rarely breaks just one bone — expect multiple fractures alongside internal bleeding or organ trauma urgent enough to land someone in emergency surgery.
• Amputations, crush injuries, and disfigurement: A collision this violent can cost a survivor a limb, leave them permanently disabled, or cause scarring that never fully fades.

Injuries at this level don’t resolve on an adjuster’s timetable. They set what the case is worth, and they’re the reason a carrier’s insurer starts looking for a discount early.

Who may be liable for a truck accident in Las Vegas?

Every truck case is built on one rule, and it is not a complicated one. Anyone who puts a commercial rig on a Las Vegas road owes ordinary care to everybody around it. Ordinary care is the law’s way of saying: behave the way a careful professional would have behaved right there, right then. For a CDL holder and the company that dispatched them, that is measured against their own training and the federal rules they run under — a standard the driver in the next lane is not held to. Nobody is demanding perfection. The question is what a competent driver or carrier would have done differently before the wreck, not what anyone can see afterward.

Fall short of it, and the rest follows. A logbook stretched to make a delivery window. A brake inspection signed off but never performed. A trailer packed so the load walks forward the first time the driver hits the pedal. When one of those is what put the truck into your vehicle, whoever was behind it pays for what it cost you.

The complication on a freight run is that those three failures often belong to three different companies. The tractor, the trailer, the load inside it, and the schedule it was moving on can each have a separate owner, a separate insurer, and a separate account of what went wrong.

Possible liable parties in a truck claim

• The truck driver: For tired, distracted, drunk, or reckless driving, or for driving without a valid commercial driver’s license (CDL), which Nevada requires to operate a big rig.
• The cargo loader or shipper: If freight was loaded incorrectly or left to shift, and that’s what caused the crash.
• Maintenance and repair contractors: If brakes or tires that should have been serviced were left to fail instead.
• The motor carrier (trucking company): NRS 41.130 puts an employer on the hook for its driver’s conduct while on duty — but a carrier can also be independently negligent, say by putting an unqualified driver behind the wheel, cutting corners on training, or setting dispatch quotas no one could hit without violating hours-of-service limits.
• Parts makers: If a defective component is what actually caused the failure.

Once more than one name is on a truck case, NRS 41.141 is doing two different jobs at the same time, and they separate more easily with numbers attached. Take an invented, deliberately round verdict — $600,000 — and run it through both.

Job one is your own share. Say the jury puts 20% of the blame on you for being a lane over and braking late. Twenty percent comes off, and $600,000 becomes $480,000. Nevada’s cutoff sits at half, and the exact wording is what matters: at 50% you still collect, reduced by your share, and only when your percentage goes above half does the claim pay nothing at all. Every fault argument an adjuster makes is aimed at that line.

Job two is how the defendants divide the rest. In a negligence case, each one answers for its own percentage and not a dollar of anybody else’s. Put 60% on the carrier, 25% on the shop that skipped the brake work, and 15% on the outfit that loaded the trailer, and those are the three checks. If nobody ever brought the loading company into the case, its 15% does not roll over onto the other two — it just never gets paid. That is the practical reason the list above matters: a share assigned to a company that isn’t in the lawsuit is money that comes off your recovery and goes to nobody.

Coverage is the other reason to look past the cab. 49 CFR § 387.9 sets a minimum of $750,000 in liability insurance for an interstate carrier hauling general freight, and the carrier has to keep proof of that coverage on file with FMCSA to stay in operation. It is a floor, not a ceiling — plenty of fleets carry several times it. Worth confirming before anyone signs off on an offer priced by an adjuster who is assuming you never checked.

What damages can you recover in a truck accident claim?

Nevada recognizes both economic and non-economic damages in a negligence claim, and whatever fault percentage lands on you comes off both, exactly the way the numbers above show. Economic damages are the costs you can add up on paper; non-economic damages cover what’s harder to put a number on. Both depend heavily on the severity of your injuries and how much the crash upended your life and your ability to work.

Damages you may recover

• Medical bills, both what you’ve already paid and what treatment still lies ahead. The ambulance ride, the ER visit, hospitalization, surgery, physical therapy, prescriptions, and any home health care your injuries end up requiring all belong in the total.
• Lost wages and diminished earning capacity. Every paycheck you missed during recovery counts, and so does the gap between what you used to earn and what you’re able to earn now, if the crash permanently limits the kind of work you can do.
• Pain and suffering. The physical injury is only part of it — Nevada law also accounts for the anxiety, insomnia, and depression that so often trail a violent truck crash.
• Property damage. Repairing or replacing your vehicle, plus anything else of yours the collision destroyed.
• Wrongful-death damages under NRS 41.085: a family that loses someone to a truck crash can pursue burial and funeral costs, the income the household relied on, and compensation for the relationship itself — the guidance and companionship that’s now gone.

Damages a carrier’s insurer will quietly leave out

An opening offer is rarely a lie — it’s the cheapest defensible reading of your file. In a trucking claim, these are the categories that go missing:

• Care you haven’t had yet. The revision surgery, the injections, the years of therapy ahead aren’t in the bills already in your file, so they aren’t in an offer built from those bills.
• Work you can still do, but not the work you did. Someone who loaded trucks for a living and can now only sit at a desk has a real loss even with a paycheck coming in. Proving it takes a vocational and economic opinion, not a pay stub.
• The unpaid labor at home. Yard work, childcare, the driving — if your family or someone you hired now does what you used to do, that carries a dollar value.
• Out-of-pocket costs nobody itemized. Co-pays, braces and equipment, grab bars or a ramp, the trips back and forth to appointments.
• The human side, priced as routine. A permanent limp or daily pain gets treated as a soft add-on unless the record makes it specific.

We start with income using pay records and tax returns to fix past losses. Where an injury permanently limits earning capacity, a vocational expert establishes what work is genuinely still open to you, and an economist prices the difference in today’s dollars across your remaining working years.

The medical side is the bigger number and the harder one. It rests on what your treating physicians are willing to commit to writing about what is still ahead, and a life-care planner turns that prognosis into a dated schedule of costs — the second surgery, the therapy blocks, the equipment replaced every few years, the hours of help at home. 

Then there is the half nobody can add up, and Nevada hands you no table for it. What a permanent limp is worth, or a year of three-hour nights, or losing the part of your life you actually liked — a jury decides that, not a calculator, which makes it a proof problem rather than a math problem. 

Some of the proof is already in the medical file. The rest has to be collected: what a normal week used to look like for you, in specifics — the shift you worked, the yard work you did yourself, the standing Saturday thing — set against what the week looks like now. The people who see you up close usually tell that part better than you can, so their accounts go in alongside yours. 

And the most valuable document in the whole file is generally the plainest one: a running note you keep yourself, dated, logging the bad days and what you had to cancel. Written as it happens, to survive questioning. All of it is then measured against how claims carrying injuries like yours have actually come out — which gives you a range you can defend.

A demand built that way doesn’t argue the offer was unfair — it shows which lines it left blank.

Legal Tip from Our Attorneys

Courts can go a step further when a carrier or driver shows conscious disregard for safety — dispatching drivers already known to be over their hours-of-service limit, for example. In that kind of case, punitive (exemplary) damages under NRS 42.005 become possible, though it takes clear and convincing evidence of oppression, fraud, or malice to get there. The trucking company holds nearly all the paperwork that could prove it, though, so a lawyer’s first move is usually a preservation demand for ELD and maintenance records — wait too long, and the proof a punitive claim depends on may simply no longer exist.

How long do you have to file a truck accident claim in Nevada?

Under NRS 11.190(4)(e), you usually have two years from the date of injury to file a truck accident lawsuit in Nevada. Just be clear on what that statute actually governs: it is the deadline for getting a complaint filed with the court — not for reporting the crash, not for finishing treatment, and not for wrapping up talks with an adjuster. It is also not something a judge polices on their own: the carrier’s lawyers raise it as a defense, and once they do, the court dismisses the case without ever reaching the question of whether the driver was over the working hours. A strong claim and a stale one end the same way.

Treat the two years as a reason to start now rather than a deadline to beat; a carrier’s own record-retention policy runs on a much shorter clock, and the data your case needs can be gone long before your window closes.

The sooner a Las Vegas truck accident lawyer is on your case, the sooner a formal demand goes out requiring the carrier to preserve its data before it’s gone for good.

Why do you need a truck accident lawyer in Las Vegas?

Don’t underestimate the other side: trucking companies and their insurers move quickly, and they don’t fight fair.

• Rapid-response defense teams: Some carriers can get an investigator and defense counsel to the scene before the wreckage is even cleared, pinning down a favorable account of the crash while you’re still being treated.
• Early lowball offers: An adjuster may call within days, angling for a recorded statement and dangling a check sized for injuries that haven’t been fully diagnosed yet.
• Multiple insurers shifting blame: With the driver, the trucking company, and the cargo company each potentially carrying their own coverage, you can end up facing three separate claims teams, each one angling to pin the fault on one of the others — or on you.
• Added federal-rule complexity: Hours-of-service limits, cargo rules, and maintenance mandates from the FMCSA stack a whole extra body of law onto the claim that an ordinary fender-bender never has to touch.

What the Carrier’s Defense Team Will Try

The arguments tend to be similar from one state to the next, and in Nevada they usually come down to two. The first is that the car driver caused it — cut the truck off, or braked suddenly — which puts Nevada’s fault-sharing rule to shift the percentage onto you. They will also often argue that another party, such as the cargo loader or freight broker, is responsible instead of them. Meanwhile, ELD downloads and maintenance paperwork have a way of arriving slowly, when they arrive at all. 

Our answer is to move faster than they do — locking down the truck’s black-box data, hours-of-service logs, and inspection files before the trail goes cold, then handing it all to reconstruction experts who can explain exactly what it shows.

A truck accident lawyer takes this work on so you are not doing it while you recover. That means we:

• Field every call from the insurers ourselves, keeping their pressure tactics away from you entirely.
• Chase down and catalog everything that matters, whether that’s the official crash report, black-box downloads, scene photos, or your medical charts.
• Trace the freight itself — who booked the load, who packed it, who owned the trailer — so every company with a share of the blame is actually named in the case.
• Turn that evidence into a claim built to hold up, one that makes a documented case for every dollar you’re entitled to.

In practical terms, the calls from adjusters come to our office instead of to you.

What does the truck accident claim process look like?

There’s no fixed timeline for a Las Vegas truck claim, but the work generally unfolds in this order. It starts with a free case review, followed immediately by evidence lock-down — spoliation letters, ELD pulls, and requests for driver logs and maintenance records go out right away, with accident-reconstruction specialists brought in wherever the facts justify it. 

Once we know the full extent of what happened and what the case is worth, we build a demand package and take it directly to the carrier’s insurers, negotiating from documentation instead of guesswork. If the insurer won’t offer a fair number, the claim moves to litigation: Nevada’s justice courts cap civil cases at $15,000 (NRS 4.370), so a serious Las Vegas truck case ends up filed in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County, where we’re prepared to try it in front of a jury.

Attorney Insight: Why Las Vegas Truck Cases Get Complicated

A two-car crash usually comes down to one driver’s insurer versus another’s. A truck wreck almost never stays that contained. Because NRS 41.141 divides fault by percentage among however many defendants turn out to be involved, a single wreck can leave you facing the driver, their employer, the broker who booked the freight, and even a separate company that owns the trailer as named defendants — each with counsel arguing that a bigger share of the blame belongs to someone else on that list.

No police report is going to settle that argument on its own. The real answer sits inside the truck’s own systems — the black-box recorder, the telematics feed, whatever the dispatcher logged — and once a carrier’s routine retention cycle runs its course, often just a matter of days, that evidence is gone unless a lawyer has already demanded it be kept.

What can make a Las Vegas truck claim harder to prove

• It’s rarely just one insurer at the table: the driver carries a policy, the carrier carries its own commercial coverage, and a freight broker may have contingent coverage sitting behind both — each with its own lawyering pointing elsewhere.
• FMCSA sets the floor on hours-of-service and maintenance, but many carriers also run their own internal safety audits — records that sometimes document problems federal inspectors never caught.
• The truck’s black box doesn’t wait around. Send the rig back out on its next haul and the recorder can simply write over the very data your case needs.
• Medical records alone rarely carry the day against a trucking company’s defense team — serious injuries usually need a qualified expert to testify about what they mean for the years ahead.
• The bigger a carrier’s policy limits, the more it stands to lose by paying quickly — and often, the harder its insurer fights before writing a check.

How we prepare a Las Vegas truck case for trial

A case becomes ready for court through a short list of specific acts, all of them done by a lawyer, most of them done in the first few weeks:

• Our preservation letter goes out almost as soon as we’re retained — ahead of the carrier’s routine purge cycle, because once that window shuts, no court order brings the file back.
• Reconstruction and medical experts get pulled in early, while the wreckage and the injuries are still fresh enough to document properly, so what they find shapes the claim instead of arriving after the claim is already built.
• Future care gets priced by a life-care planner rather than estimated off the bills already in the file — the figure a quick lowball offer conveniently skips.
• If the insurer digs in rather than pays fairly, we’re ready to make that case to a jury in Clark County’s Eighth Judicial District.

Most truck claims settle, and yours probably will. Readiness still moves the number, because the carrier’s insurer is not pricing your injuries in a vacuum — it is pricing what this file is worth if it ends up in front of a Clark County jury. A file with preserved black-box data, a reconstruction opinion, and a priced life-care plan in it is expensive to defend and risky to lose. A file without them is cheap to defend and gets offered accordingly.

How do you choose the right truck accident lawyer?

Truck claims ask for different work than an ordinary injury case, so it is worth asking a few specific questions before you hire anyone:

• Can they go toe-to-toe with a trucking company’s legal team?

Carrier litigation means fronting money for reconstruction engineers and testifying physicians long before any recovery arrives, while the company’s investigators are often working the scene before your vehicle is towed. This firm has taken on casino operators, insurance carriers, and corporate defendants with legal budgets far beyond an individual client’s — and we front every one of those costs ourselves, so nothing comes out of your pocket along the way. Several of our published motor-vehicle settlements have topped seven figures, though what another client recovered says nothing about what your case is worth.

• Does the firm have a real reputation, or just marketing?

Advertising is easy to buy, so look instead for what is harder to build: satisfied clients, respect from fellow attorneys, and decades of experience. Ed Bernstein & Associates has served the Las Vegas Valley since 1977, earning recognition including an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and a place among the National Top 100 Trial Lawyers. 

• Do they actually know Las Vegas’s roads and courts?

A lawyer who already knows which agency worked your crash, how that agency releases its reports, which hospital treated you, and how Clark County’s Eighth Judicial District Court actually runs isn’t spending your first weeks learning it on a freight case that matters more than usual, because the carrier’s record-retention clock is shorter than the learning curve.

• Will they actually take your case to trial?

Ask any lawyer you’re considering how many truck cases they have tried, and to what verdict. It is a question with a checkable answer, which is more than you get from an adjective on a website.

The difference between a Las Vegas truck accident lawyer and a generalist is commercial-vehicle mileage — the federal rules, the retention deadlines, and the carriers are all specialized, and the representation has to be too.

Client Testimonials

Reviews are the one part of a law firm’s marketing written by somebody other than the firm. Ours are public, on Google and on our own reviews page, with names attached — read them and weigh them yourself.

“I initially had my doubts and concerns about obtaining legal representation, due to a horrible experience with a different law office, but throughout this process, the staff over at Bernstein & Associates put my concerns at ease as they handled everything in a very professional and personal manner to make sure I was consistently kept in the loop and satisfied with where things were going in my case. They went above and beyond to make sure everything was a smooth process and were very accommodating considering how busy my schedule is.” — Ryan Riggs, published on the firm’s client reviews page.

Disclaimer: Testimonials are voluntary statements from former clients. They do not constitute a guarantee, warranty, or prediction regarding the outcome of your matter.

Case Results That Reflect Our Experience

When a truck crash causes serious injury, our focus is on securing money for surgery, long-term care, and the income you’ve lost. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes, but our firm’s track record — more than $1 billion in verdicts and settlements across its practice — reflects the scale of cases we’re prepared to take on.

These firm-wide motor-vehicle results give a sense of the harm a serious truck collision can cause:

• $1.5 million — motor-vehicle accident settlement, wrongful death
• $1.5 million — motor-vehicle accident settlement, a client ejected from the vehicle
• $1.4 million — motor-vehicle accident settlement

These are firm-wide results for Edward M. Bernstein & Associates; see the full list on the firm’s case results page.

Disclaimer: Past results do not guarantee future outcomes; results depend on the specific facts of each case.

Areas Served

From our Las Vegas offices, we represent truck accident victims across the Las Vegas Valley, including:

• The Strip and Downtown Las Vegas
• Spring Valley and Summerlin
• Sunrise Manor and Paradise
• North Las Vegas and Centennial Hills
• Enterprise and Southern Highlands

We also serve Henderson, Summerlin, and Boulder City.

Local Resources

Trauma & Emergency Rooms

• University Medical Center of Southern Nevada – Trauma Center (Level I Trauma Center) — 1800 W. Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89102
• Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center – Trauma Center (Level I Trauma Center) — 3186 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89109

Police & Crash Reports

• Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department – Crash Report Requests
• Nevada Highway Patrol / Nevada State Police (freeway crashes on I-15, US-95, I-215)

Courts

• Las Vegas Justice Court (civil claims up to $15,000) — 200 Lewis Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89155
• Eighth Judicial District Court – Regional Justice Center (civil claims over $15,000) — 200 Lewis Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89155

State & Federal Agencies

• Nevada DMV – SR-1 Crash Reporting
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

Disclaimer: We do not endorse these organizations or profit from listing them.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can more than just the truck driver be held responsible?

Yes. Fault can reach well past the person behind the wheel — to the trucking company itself, whoever was responsible for loading the freight, a contractor who handled maintenance, or a manufacturer if a defective part played a role. NRS 41.130 puts a motor carrier on the hook for its driver’s on-the-job conduct, and Nevada’s comparative negligence rule (NRS 41.141) still lets you collect as long as your own fault doesn’t top 50%. It’s worth identifying every defendant who might owe you, since a commercial carrier’s insurance policy is usually worth far more than what a single driver carries on their own.

What does a truck’s black box record, and why should I care?

Between the electronic logging device and the engine control module, a commercial truck is constantly capturing its own speed, brake application, and hours-of-service history. When that data lines up with a driver ignoring an FMCSA requirement, it can make the case for you — but since the hardware belongs to the carrier, getting hold of it typically takes a formal preservation demand from a Las Vegas truck accident lawyer before routine overwriting wipes it out.

Where can I get a copy of my truck crash report in Las Vegas?

That depends on which agency responded. Freeway crashes on I-15 and US-95 fall under Nevada Highway Patrol jurisdiction, while LVMPD is the one to contact for a surface-street collision, and its report isn’t available until the case file is closed out. Either way, that report ends up serving as key fault evidence once your claim is evaluated under NRS 41.141.

What’s the time limit for filing a truck accident claim in Nevada?

In most cases, two years from the date you were hurt, per NRS 11.190(4)(e). That said, don’t treat two years as a target — trucking evidence disappears fast, and getting your lawyer involved early is what creates the leverage to make a carrier preserve its records before they’re gone.

Take the Next Step

Were you hurt in a Las Vegas truck crash? Every hour matters when a trucking company’s data can vanish. Contact Ed Bernstein & Associates — our attorneys answer around the clock, ready to start protecting your evidence the same day you call.

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Edward M. Bernstein & Associates – Summerlin Office
10801 W. Charleston Blvd.
Suite 520, Las Vegas, NV 89135
24/7 Phone: (702) 240-0000

Other Cases We Handle in Las Vegas

• Motorcycle Accidents
• Pedestrian Accidents
• Rideshare Accidents
• Slip and Fall
• Car Accidents

Disclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Every case is different and must be evaluated on its own facts.