Personal Injury Law

Nevada Medical Malpractice Statute of Limitations

By Steve Klearman

I will get back to my three-part series on the Nevada jurisdictional question we were analyzing on Monday or Tuesday. First, though, since I've recently mentioned the insurance industry's fraud on the Nevada voters otherwise known as KODIN, I reprint below Nevada's highly restrictive statute of limitations.

If you've been injured as a result of Nevada medical malpractice, the statute below means that you must move fast to secure your rights or your rights will be gone.

NRS 41A.097 Limitation of actions; tolling of limitation.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, an action for injury or death against a provider of health care may not be commenced more than 4 years after the date of injury or 2 years after the plaintiff discovers or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered the injury, whichever occurs first, for:

(a) Injury to or the wrongful death of a person occurring before October 1, 2002, based upon alleged professional negligence of the provider of health care;

Full post as published by Reno Personal Injury Lawyer on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).