STATE LAW – NEVADA LIBRARY – GUIDE 20
Nevada Wrongful Death & Survival Claims
Fatal-crash claims involve wrongful-death, survival, probate, damages and insurance issues. The proper representative, statutory heirs, liable parties and available coverage should be identified early.
- Identify statutory heirs and the personal representative.
- Preserve crash evidence and every potentially applicable insurance policy.
- Separate wrongful-death damages from estate or survival claims as Nevada law requires.
- Coordinate probate, lien, reimbursement and settlement issues.
Nevada wrongful-death and survival claims are distinct
NRS 41.085 authorizes wrongful-death claims by the decedent’s heirs and personal representative. NRS 41.100 separately preserves qualifying causes of action that survive a person’s death.
Fatal-crash analysis should therefore separate the heirs’ wrongful-death losses from damages belonging to the estate under a survival claim, while avoiding duplicate recovery for the same element of loss.
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