Construction Site Injuries in Nevada

Under Nevada's industrial insurance law, the rights and remedies of the workers' compensation chapters are an injured employee's exclusive remedy against the employer. On construction work this protection extends to architects, land surveyors and engineers working for the contractor or owner, and to a project owner that insures the project's workers through a consolidated insurance program. A worker may still sue a third party other than the employer who is liable for the injury, subject to the insurer's lien. No Nevada scaffold-law statute was identified for this entry.

Modified comparative negligence (51% bar). The plaintiff's comparative negligence does not bar recovery if it was not greater than the negligence of the defendant or the combined negligence of multiple defendants; the jury finds total damages and each party's percentage of negligence, and damages are reduced accordingly.

Two years for an action to recover damages for injuries to a person caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another (with exceptions in NRS 11.215 and 11.217). Two years also applies to libel, slander, assault, battery and false imprisonment.