Was Your Child Hurt In A Las Vegas Crash?
When it's your child, everything else stops mattering. You don't have to figure out the legal side while you're sitting in a waiting room. Talk to Erik, confidentially, and let us carry that part for you.
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A Child's Case Is About Years, Not Just Bills
When the hurt person is still growing, the harm doesn't end when the casts come off. A full claim looks past today's receipts and asks what your child may still need as they grow up.
Medical and Surgical Care
The ER visit, imaging, casting, surgery, and any follow-up care your child's pediatrician sends you to after the crash.
Future and Long-Term Care
Care a child may still need as they grow: follow-up on a growth plate, therapy, and treatment that lasts well past the settlement.
Pain and Trauma
The physical pain, the scarring, and the anxiety a lot of kids carry after a wreck, including a new fear of cars.
Your Costs as a Parent
Time you took off work, mileage to appointments, and out-of-pocket bills you paid while your child was healing.
This is where a child's case parts ways with an adult's. A grown driver with a healed wrist is mostly done. A kid with a growth-plate fracture might not be. The same injury can keep showing up as a child grows, in how a bone forms, in how a joint moves, in whether they need another procedure at fourteen that nobody saw coming at eight. We bring in the treating doctors to put a real picture to that future care, and we build the demand around it. Insurers across Clark County would much rather you settle on the stack of bills sitting on your kitchen table right now. That's almost never the whole story for a child.
Children Get Hurt Differently Than Adults
A child's body is smaller, lighter, and still forming, so a crash hits them in ways it wouldn't hit you. A lap belt sits across a kid's belly, not their hips. Their bones bend and break at the growth plates. Here is what brings most families to us.
- ✓Growth-plate fractures
- ✓Concussion and brain injury
- ✓Spinal and neck strain
- ✓Seat-belt and lap-belt bruising
- ✓Broken arms and collarbones
- ✓Internal organ injuries
- ✓Facial cuts and scarring
- ✓Lasting fear of riding in cars
The injuries that scare us most are the ones you can't see at the scene. A child can walk away from a wreck near the 215 Beltway and seem fine, then spike a fever or start vomiting hours later from an injury that was hiding. Belt marks across the abdomen, the kind known as seat-belt sign, can point to organ damage underneath. A bump on the head that looked minor can turn into a concussion that affects school and sleep for weeks. That's why we tell every parent the same thing: get them seen, even when they say they're okay. If your child took a serious hit, our brain injury page and our broken bone page go deeper on those.
Where a crash happens shapes how kids get hurt, too. The high-speed merges on I-15 and US-95 tend to produce harder impacts and worse injuries, while the stop-and-go intersections along Boulder Highway and the surface streets through Henderson and Summerlin bring more side-impact and rear-end hits at lower speeds. A back-seat child can still be hurt badly in a low-speed wreck because their body and their car seat take the load differently than an adult up front. Whatever the speed, the same rule holds: a child evaluated and documented the day of the crash is both safer and better protected, since a Nevada injury claim generally has to be filed within two years and the medical record is what ties the harm to the wreck.
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A Child Doesn't File. A Parent Does It For Them.
Here's the part most parents have never had to think about. Under Nevada law, a child can't bring an injury claim on their own. A parent or legal guardian brings it for them, often serving as what the court calls a guardian ad litem, the adult who stands in for the minor's interests. So when you call us, you're not handing your child's case to someone else. You stay in the driver's seat as the parent, and we do the legal work alongside you.
The deadline works differently too. Most Nevada injury claims have to be filed within two years under NRS 11.190(4)(e). For a child, that clock can be paused while the injured person is a minor, so a kid often has until around their 18th birthday plus the normal period to sue. The rules can differ for medical and government claims. We don't want you leaning on that, though. Witnesses move out of Henderson, intersection cameras record over their own footage, and a wrecked car seat gets thrown out. The case is always stronger when we start early, no matter what the calendar technically allows.
If the crash itself raises questions about fault, those rules still apply to your child's claim. Nevada uses modified comparative negligence under NRS 41.141: you can still recover as long as you're not found more than 50% at fault, and your share reduces the award. That matters more for the adult driver than for a child passenger, since a young kid in a back seat is almost never blamed. Our main car accident page walks through how fault gets sorted out across these cases.
A Judge Usually Has To Sign Off On A Child's Settlement
This surprises a lot of parents, and it's a good thing once you understand it. Under NRS 41.200, a settlement for an injured child is not final until a district court approves it through a verified petition. It's commonly called a minor's compromise. A judge looks at the settlement amount, the attorney fees, the medical liens, and how the money will be held for the child. The whole purpose is to make sure the settlement actually serves your kid, not anyone else.
The money doesn't just land in a checking account, either. The court protects the child's interest and may direct the funds into a blocked account that the child receives when they reach adulthood, so it's protected through the years in between. We prepare the petition, handle the paperwork, and stand next to you at the hearing, which in Clark County runs through the Eighth Judicial District Court at the Regional Justice Center on Lewis Avenue downtown. You won't be guessing at any of it. We've done this part before, and we'll tell you exactly what to expect before you walk in.
If A Car Seat Failed, Keep It
A car seat or booster is built to hold up in a crash. When one cracks, unlatches, or comes apart in a wreck it should have survived, the company that made it may share the blame along with the driver who caused the crash. That seat is evidence, so do not throw it out, do not return it, and do not let an adjuster take it from you.
- ✓The car seat or booster, kept exactly as it was
- ✓Photos of the seat, the buckles, and where it sat
- ✓The brand, model, and any recall paperwork
- ✓The crash report and any intersection or dash footage
One thing parents worry about: the seat is a few years old, so is it too late to go after the maker? Unlike some states, Nevada doesn't have a general statute of repose that cuts off product-defect injury claims after a fixed number of years from when the product was made or sold. A defective-car-seat claim is generally tied to the two-year personal-injury deadline, which can run from when the injury and its cause are discovered. The deadlines are still fact-specific, so don't sit on it, but the age of the seat alone doesn't end the case.
Even when the seat held up fine, the rest of the evidence still matters and it disappears fast. We send preservation letters to keep footage from being erased, pull the 911 and crash records, and line up the photos that show how your child was seated when the impact came. A lot of kids get hurt in side-impact crashes at suburban intersections, the sort our T-bone crash page covers, and the angle of the hit changes what the medical picture should look like. Getting all of this locked down early is half the battle, and it's work you shouldn't have to do while your child is still in treatment.
You Talk To The Attorney, Not A Call Center
When it's your child, you don't want to be passed around. Erik handles these cases himself, from the first quiet phone call to the settlement hearing. He's been a licensed Nevada attorney since 2006, and he lives and works right here in the valley.
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You pay nothing up front. Our fee comes out of the recovery, and we go over case costs with you before anything starts.
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We know the suburbs, the courts, and how the regional insurers handle a child's claim. You can sit across a desk from Erik.
Three Things That Help Right Now
You don't have to do all of this. Do what you can, and we'll handle the rest.
Get Them Seen
A doctor visit dated the day of the crash protects your child's health and their claim.
Keep The Car Seat
Save it as it is, plus photos and any recall paperwork. It's evidence.
Call Erik
We start preserving footage and dealing with the insurers from day one.
Most Nevada injury claims fall under a two-year deadline (NRS 11.190(4)(e)), but that clock can be paused while the injured person is a child. Don't let timing decide your child's case. Talk to us early so the deadline is never a problem.
Other Situations We Handle For Families
A child's crash often overlaps with another kind of claim. Start with the one that fits what happened.
Child Crash Questions, Answered Plainly
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