Reno Car Accident Lawyers

Have you been involved in an auto accident?

Statistics reveal that car accidents are a common occurrence on the roadways across the globe. The United States has some of the highest rates of car accidents. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed that approximately 5.8 million police-reported accidents occurred in 2008 alone. Additionally, every year approximately half a million people are being hospitalized due to auto crashes, costing more than $150 billion in medical and property damage.

Determining one’s liability in a car accident is much more complicated than simply proving which driver was at fault. Negligence may lie entirely on one person, or may include several people. To address these issues, hiring a lawyer familiar with car accident claims is important to ensure a successful case.

The aftermath of being involved in a car accident can cause anxiety and stress levels to increase with regards to what you should do and how you will handle it. You may be confused about your responsibilities, liabilities, and legal obligations, as well as how to gather and preserve valid evidence for the accident. This is why a car accident attorney is required.

At Car Accident Lawyer Pros, NV, our Reno Car Accident Lawyers know what this feels like. We’ve helped people overcome these difficult times for decades and made sure they were not only taken care of legally, but also physically and medically. Our personal injury attorneys have collected millions of dollars for our clients to make sure they don't have to worry about bills piling up while they are not working and recovering with their loved ones.

Do you know your legal rights?

Your legal rights after a car accident differ from location to location, which is why it’s important to hire an auto accident lawyer in the state where the accident occurred.

A substantial settlement may be one of your options, but before you make a final decision, beware that without a proper car accident lawyer, the chances of you getting the full amount will likely be limited. You need a knowledgeable accident attorney to make sure the insurance company doesn’t take advantage of you or offer you inadequate settlement. Most companies tend to settle car accident cases out of court, and determining the right amount of compensation to cover all the damages and injuries needs to be fully analyzed. Your car accident attorney will be there to make sure that the maximum amount is given out. It’s never advisable to take a settlement without the sound legal advice of an auto accident attorney.

With the statute of limitations in place, waiting before finding a car accident lawyer to represent you can cause negative results. It’s always better to speak with a personal injury attorney as quickly as possible to see if you have a case or not. Let them make that decision. Not you. We offer a 100% free consultation.

If car accident occurs and you were injured, follow these guidelines to uphold your rights:

• Immediately call the police to get a report filed for documentation.
• Write down the other driver’s license plate and ID details.
• Talk to the witnesses and get their contact information.
• Take your own photographs of your vehicle and surroundings, even if the police do.
• Do not discuss who was at fault or negotiate for any reason.
• Contact a knowledgeable car accident lawyer to represent you.
• Do not talk to the other parties’ insurance company nor sign any document for any reason without first consulting your accident lawyer.

You will have to prove the responsible driver’s act of recklessness and proving another's fault is complicated in some cases. That is why the laws have two distinctive guidelines for giving funds to the injured drivers: comparative negligence and contributory negligence. If the accident was caused by multiple people, anyone of them could be held liable for the damages caused to you. For proper advice, it is essential to consult an Reno Car Accident Lawyer concerning your case.

Car Accident Lawyer Pros, NV are waiting to hear from you so they can fight for the maximum settlement on your Reno Car Accident case! With Millions collected for our clients and over 30 years of experience the insurance companies are ready to pay up as soon as they hear from us. We currently have Arizona Car Accident Attorneys serving throughout the state including: Las Vegas, Henderson, Reno, Laughlin, Pahrump, Mesquite and Carson City. Call now for a free evaluation. (877) 722-9777

About Reno

Archaeological finds place the eastern border for the prehistoric Martis people in the Reno area.[7] As early as the mid-1850s, a few pioneers settled in the Truckee Meadows, a relatively fertile valley through which the Truckee River made its way from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake. In addition to subsistence farming, these early residents could pick up business from travelers along the California Trail, which followed the Truckee westward, before branching off towards Donner Lake, where the formidable obstacle of the Sierra Nevada began.

Gold was discovered in the vicinity of Virginia City in 1850, and a modest mining community developed, but the discovery of silver in 1859 at the Comstock Lode led to a mining rush, and thousands of emigrants left their homes, bound for the West, hoping to find a fortune.

To provide the necessary connection between Virginia City and the California Trail, Charles W. Fuller built a log toll bridge across the Truckee River in 1859. A small community that served travelers soon grew near the bridge.[8] After two years, Fuller sold the bridge to Myron C. Lake, who continued to develop the community by adding a grist mill, kiln, and livery stable to the hotel and eating house. He renamed it "Lake's Crossing". Most of what is present-day western Nevada was formed as the Nevada Territory from part of Utah Territory in 1861.

By January 1863, the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) had begun laying tracks east from Sacramento, California, eventually connecting with the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah, to form the First transcontinental railroad. Lake deeded land to the CPRR in exchange for its promise to build a depot at Lake's Crossing. In 1864, Washoe County was consolidated with Roop County, and Lake's Crossing became the county's largest town. Lake had earned himself the title "founder of Reno". Once the railroad station was established, the town of Reno officially came into being on May 9, 1868. CPRR construction superintendent Charles Crocker named the community after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the Civil War at the Battle of South Mountain.

In 1871, Reno became the county seat of the newly expanded Washoe County, replacing the county seat in Washoe City. However, political power in Nevada remained with the mining communities, first Virginia City and later Tonopah and Goldfield.

The extension of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad to Reno in 1872 provided a boost to the new city's economy. In the following decades, Reno continued to grow and prosper as a business and agricultural center and became the principal settlement on the transcontinental railroad between Sacramento and Salt Lake City. As the mining boom waned early in the 20th century, Nevada's centers of political and business activity shifted to the non-mining communities, especially Reno and Las Vegas. Nevada is still the third-largest gold producer in the world, after South Africa and Australia; the state yielded 6.9% of the world's supply in 2005 world gold production.

The Reno Arch was erected on Virginia Street in 1926 to promote the upcoming Transcontinental Highways Exposition of 1927. The arch included the words "Nevada's Transcontinental Highways Exposition" and the dates of the exposition. After the exposition, the Reno City Council decided to keep the arch as a permanent downtown gateway, and Mayor E.E. Roberts asked the citizens of Reno to suggest a slogan for the arch. No acceptable slogan was received until a $100 prize was offered, and G.A. Burns of Sacramento was declared the winner on March 14, 1929, with "Reno, the Biggest Little City in the World".

The divorce capital of the world

In the early twentieth century Nevada became a popular destination for migratory divorce in an era when most states had highly restrictive laws on the subject. Legislation passed in 1931 completed the gradual reduction of residency requirement from six months to six weeks, and Reno openly advertised itself as the "Divorce Capital of the World". Nevada's laws, which were fairly progressive for the time, allowed numerous grounds for divorce and Reno's courts quickly gained a reputation for handling cases with both celerity and sympathy for those seeking to "untie the knot". From the 1930s through the 1960s Reno became synonymous with speedy divorce, often referred to colloquially as "the six week cure". During these decades the city's reputation drew thousands of divorcees annually, and they in turn became an important part of the local economy. These temporary residents flocked to hotels, boardinghouses, and hospitality ranches, many of which catered primarily to those waiting out the six week residency requirement before their court date.

Numerous local businesses openly courted these visitors, such as R. Herz & Bro, a jewelry store that offered ring resetting services to the recently divorced and the luxurious El Cortez Hotel, which was built in part to accommodate the more affluent among Reno's six week guests. The majority of those who came to Reno for divorce were women as Nevada did not require both parties in a divorce case to be present in court, and men often could not take that much time off from work. Although new "residents" seeking divorce were required to swear under oath that they intended to make Nevada their permanent home, most left soon after obtaining their divorce decree, which often occurred on the same day as the initial court hearing.

In addition to tens of thousands of ordinary people, Reno also became a major destination for celebrities, and the very wealthy looking to end their marriages as quickly as possible. Some of the many famous personages who got divorced in Reno include Mary Pickford, Jack Dempsey, General Douglas MacArthur, Carole Lombard, Tallulah Bankhead, Adlai Stevenson II, Lana Turner, Nelson Rockefeller, Georges Simenon, Rita Hayworth, Gloria Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt IV. The latter was married seven times and had five of his six divorces in Nevada. Mr. Vanderbilt was so taken with Reno that, unlike most migrant divorcees, he eventually settled there permanently.

In the 1939 film The Women, Reno and its divorce culture serve as a backdrop to a significant part of the plot. Ernie Pyle once wrote in one of his columns, "All the people you saw on the streets in Reno were obviously there to get divorces." In Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead, published in 1943, the New York-based female protagonist tells a friend, "I am going to Reno," which was understood as declaring their intention to get a divorce.

The divorce business eventually died out during the 1970s, as other states began relaxing their laws, and especially with the widespread introduction of no fault divorce.

Gambling and modern Reno

Reno took a leap forward when the state of Nevada legalized open gambling on March 19, 1931, at the same time as it liberalized its divorce laws. The statewide push for legal Nevada gaming was led by Reno entrepreneur Bill Graham, who owned the Bank Club Casino in Reno, which was on Center Street. No other state offered legalized casino gaming like Nevada had in the 1930s, and casinos such as the Bank Club and Palace were popular. A few states had legal parimutuel horse racing, but no other state had legal casino gambling.

Within a few years, the Bank Club, owned by George Wingfield, Bill Graham, and Jim McKay, was the state's largest employer and the largest casino in the world. Wingfield owned most of the buildings in town that housed gaming and took a percentage of the profits, along with his rent.

As the divorce industry declined, gambling became the major Reno industry. While gaming pioneers such as "Pappy" and Harold Smith of Harold's Club and Bill Harrah of the soon-to-dominate Harrah's Casino set up shop in the 1930s, the war years of the 1940s cemented Reno as the place to play for two decades. Beginning in the 1950s, the need for economic diversification beyond gaming fueled a movement for more lenient business taxation.

At 1:03 pm, on February 5, 1957, two explosions, caused by natural gas leaking into the maze of pipes and ditches under the city, and an ensuing fire, destroyed five buildings in the vicinity of Sierra and First Streets along the Truckee River. The disaster killed two people and injured 49. The first explosion hit under the block of shops on the west side of Sierra Street (now the site of the Century Riverside), the second, across Sierra Street, now the site of the Palladio.

The presence of a main east–west rail line, the emerging interstate highway system, favorable state tax climate, and relatively inexpensive land created good conditions for warehousing and distribution of goods.

In the 1980s, Indian gaming rules were relaxed, and starting in 2000, Californian Native casinos began to cut into Reno casino revenues. Major new construction projects have been completed in the Reno and Sparks areas. A few new luxury communities were built in Truckee, California, about 28 miles (45 km) west of Reno on Interstate 80. Reno also is an outdoor recreation destination, due to its proximity to the Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and numerous ski resorts in the region.

In 2018, the city officially changed its flag after a local contest was held. In recent years, the Reno metro area − spurred by large-scale investments from Greater Seattle and San Francisco Bay Area companies such as Amazon, Tesla, Panasonic, Microsoft, Apple, and Google − has become a new major technology center in the United States.