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Nevada Pattern Jury Instruction 10.09 tells a jury how to award damages in a case of diminished value. The court instructs the jury that if repairs don't fully restore the value of the damaged property, the jury should award the victim the difference between fair market value and the value post repair.

How can I request to be excused from jury duty? Per Nevada statute, persons of 70 years or more as well as those who are 65 or older and living 65 miles or more away are automatically exempt from serving as a juror.

Jury instructions tell the jury what the laws are that govern a particular case. Each attorney gives the judge a set of proposed jury instructions. The judge considers each instruction and gives the one that properly states the law that applies to the case.

The purpose of a limiting instruction is to allow relevant and probative evidence to be admitted in court, even if it is only for a limited purpose. This is better than excluding the evidence altogether, as it may still be useful to the jury in making their decision.

Nevada Revised Statute 41.141 is Nevada's modified comparative negligence rule. The law says that fault isn't necessarily a bar to recovery in a personal injury accident. A victim may still be able to recover some of their damages even if they're partially to blame for the event.

As noted above, Nevada operates under a system of strict liability for products that injure consumers, which means that a party who is injured by a defective product does not have to prove negligence to recover financial compensation in a personal injury lawsuit.

However, certain companies and manufacturers promote products or activities that are so inherently dangerous, if the end user is injured, they'll be able to sue for strict liability. No need to prove negligence. Examples of such products include certain chemicals, flammables, explosives, or owning wild animals.

For strict liability to apply, the victim must use the product in a foreseeable way. The product defect must cause the victim's injuries. You don't have to be able to prove how the defect occurred. All you have to show is that a defect caused your injuries.

The elements of a negligence cause of action against a product manufacturer or seller arising out of a defective product are the same as for most any other type of negligence action: duty, breach of duty, causation and damage. The duty, whether in design, manufacturing, or warning, is that of reasonable care.