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Nevada Supreme Court Enforces Employee Exclusion

October 15, 2019 by

Pacific Clay Products makes concrete pipes.  Pacific Clay Products tells its driver, Mr. Wambolt, to deliver a load of concrete pipes to Ace Plumbing & Heating in Las Vegas, Nevada. When Mr. Wambolt arrives in Las Vegas, he needs a forklift to unload the pipes.  Lucky for Wambolt, Ace Plumbing & Heating has a forklift […]

Filed Under: Commercial Motor Vehicle, Declaratory Relief, Duty to Defend, Duty to Indemnify, Employee Exclusion, Loading and Unloading, Tender of Defense

Nevada Considers Coverage Issues Arising From The Loading And Unloading Of Commercial Trucks And Trailers.

May 7, 2013 by

The year is 1964.  A construction truck pulls up to the dock at Richfield Oil Corporation in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The driver of the truck hopes to load fuel that he can haul to a construction site where his equipment is operating. Mr. Spink is the guy working the dock.  He is the one who […]

Filed Under: Coming to Rest Rule, Complete Operation Rule, Loading and Unloading, Omnibus Clause

Got Questions?

August 11, 2010 by

These posts on the Mills & Associates Nevada Trucking Law blog are published to provide useful insights on Nevada trucking law to our clients and other subscribers. Many times the topics are suggested by recent case law, or issues raised by litigation.
As part of our ongoing effort to provide both timely and helpful information, we invite our readers …

Filed Under: Appellate Issues, Bad Faith, Conspicuity, Damages, Distracted Driving, Downtime Losses, Duties to the Insured, Employer Liability, Evidentiary Inferences, Expert Testimony, Federal Court, Fee Shifting, Finality, Financial Responsibility, Firefighter's Rule, Hedonic Damages, Imputed Liability, Industry Insights, Insurance Carrier Identification, Joint & Several Liability, Jurisdiction, Loading and Unloading, Maintenance, Model Agreements/Contracts, Negligent Repair, Open Range, Opinion Testimony, Panel Counsel Tips, Peremptory Challenge, Policy Interpretation, Policy Limits, Rapid Response Team, Rebuttable Presumptions, Removal, Respondeat Superior, Service of Process, Several Liability, Spoliation of Evidence, Third Party Bad Faith, Trial Strategy, Vicarious Liability Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Two Important Trucking Law Lessons From One Old Supreme Court Opinion

December 9, 2009 by

One of our goals at Nevada Trucking Law is to write a blog post regarding every reported Nevada appellate case, past and present, that involves a commercial truck or heavy equipment. The case considered in this post is Arrowhead Freight Lines, Ltd. v. White, 71 Nev. 257, 287 P.2d 718 (1955). So you might be asking, what can we learn from a legal opinion that is over 50 years old? There are several good lessons….

Filed Under: Loading and Unloading, Trial Strategy Tagged With: , , ,