Building a strong claim means gathering everything available: incident reports, surveillance footage, witness statements, photographs of the hazard, and any physical evidence tied to the scene.

Our attorneys can promptly send a written preservation notice to the property manager, directing them to retain any surveillance footage or records related to your fall. This matters because footage from casinos, hotels, and retailers often gets overwritten within days if no one requests it be saved. Property owners and their insurers frequently withhold this information unless a lawsuit is actually filed, so acting quickly protects your case before evidence disappears.

Hotels and Casinos: Wet or slippery floors from spills, cleaning products, and water leaks are common in hotels and casinos, along with uneven flooring and loose carpeting in high-traffic areas.

Swimming Pools: With so many hotels and resorts maintaining pools, thousands of pool-area falls happen in Las Vegas each year, often tied to faulty equipment or a lack of lifeguard supervision.

Restaurants and Bars: Spilled food and drinks, grease on kitchen and floor surfaces, and uneven flooring make restaurants and bars a frequent source of fall injuries. If your injury involved an assault or a lack of adequate security rather than a physical hazard like a spill or torn carpet, visit our negligent security page instead.

Retail Stores and Shopping Centers: High foot traffic, spills, and cluttered walkways create ongoing fall risk in grocery stores, retail shops, and shopping centers.

Parking Lots and Garages: Poor lighting, cracked pavement, and uneven curbs contribute to falls in parking structures, particularly at night.

Hotel Shuttles and Bathtubs: Guests have been injured boarding and disembarking hotel shuttles, and slippery bathtubs without a textured surface or rubber mat remain a recurring source of hotel injury claims.

Convention and Event Venues: Temporary flooring, cabling, and staging set up for conventions, concerts, and trade shows can create tripping hazards that a permanent building wouldn't have. Event organizers and venue operators are responsible for managing these risks just as much as any permanent property owner.

Extreme summer heat can warp or soften asphalt and outdoor surfaces, creating unexpected tripping hazards in parking lots and walkways. The city's rare, but heavy rainstorms can just as quickly overwhelm poor drainage, leaving walkways and entrances slick with standing water. Property owners are expected to anticipate both conditions and respond to them promptly, not wait until someone gets hurt.

Depending on where and how your fall happened, liability can rest with a single property owner or be shared among several responsible parties, including:

• Homeowners and condo owners
• Retail operators
• Restaurant and bar owners
• Hotel and casino operators
• Landlords and property management companies
• Event organizers and venue operators
• Government entities

A landlord in Nevada can be held liable for a tenant's or visitor's fall if they were negligent in maintaining the property, such as failing to repair a broken stair or a known plumbing leak, though a lease agreement may also assign certain maintenance duties to the tenant. Government-owned properties follow different notice requirements than private ones, so it's worth confirming which rules apply to your situation early on.

If your fall happened at a friend or family member's home, you may hesitate to bring a claim out of concern for the relationship. Homeowners carry insurance for exactly this reason, and if the property is a condo or other multi-family housing, the homeowners' association may bear responsibility instead of your friend personally.

Nevada follows a modified comparative negligence rule. If you're found partially at fault for your own fall, your compensation is reduced by your percentage of fault, but you can still recover as long as you're not found more than 50% responsible. For example, a $100,000 claim reduced by 20% fault results in an $80,000 recovery.

This makes early, thorough documentation critical. Insurance companies routinely try to inflate an injured person's share of fault specifically because it reduces what they have to pay, and a detailed investigation is often what stands between a fair settlement and a lowball offer.

Under Nevada law, you generally have two years from the date of your injury to file a premises liability lawsuit. Missing this deadline typically means losing your right to recover, regardless of how strong your case is. The same two-year window applies when a fall results in a fatal injury, giving the decedent's family or estate the right to bring a wrongful death claim.

Seek medical attention first, even if your injuries seem minor at the time, since some injuries don't become apparent until hours or days later. Once you're safe, document the scene: Photograph the hazard, get contact information from any witnesses, and report the incident to the property owner or manager. Ask for a copy of any incident report that gets filed. Then, contact a slip, trip, and fall attorney before speaking with the property owner's insurance company.

Las Vegas and Clark County experience: We practice in the courts where these cases are litigated and understand the specific obligations Nevada law places on hotels, casinos, and commercial property owners.

Thorough investigation: We work with our own investigators to secure surveillance footage, incident reports, and maintenance records before they disappear.

Aggressive advocacy: We prepare every case as though it's going to trial, which is often exactly what pushes an insurer toward a fair settlement instead of a lowball offer.

No upfront cost: We handle slip, trip, and fall cases on a contingency fee basis. You pay nothing unless we recover compensation on your behalf.

You shouldn't have to cover your own medical bills and lost wages because a property owner failed to keep their premises safe. Call Carter Cullen today at 702.800.0000 or contact us online to schedule your free, confidential consultation. We handle every case on a contingency fee basis, so there's no cost to you unless we win.