Workers’ Compensation

Construction sites across Nevada come with real dangers: heavy machinery, high scaffolding, and non-stop movement create environments where accidents can happen in an instant. That’s why safety equipment, from the right helmets to fall gear or harnesses, serves as every worker’s first defense against serious harm. When this gear doesn’t work as promised, injuries that…

Claggett & Sykes secured a record-breaking jury verdict in a workers’ compensation case against NorGUARD Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. The $145,260,000 verdict follows a trial over the insurer’s bad faith denial and delay of workers’ compensation benefits for a plaintiff who suffered a traumatic brain injury on the job. The result marks…

Amazon has faced criticism for the potentially dangerous conditions its workers face around the country. Two common types of Amazon workers in Nevada and throughout the US include warehouse employees and delivery drivers. The warehouse is where Amazon workers unload, store, retrieve, and load all the products customers buy online. Delivery drivers operate trucks that…