GGRM Law Firm

The Nevada Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that employees required to drive for work face employment-related road risks, adopting the actual street-risk rule and extending the special-errand exception to include return journeys, in a workers' compensation case argued by GGRM's Gabriel Martinez.

The Nevada Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that Texaco could not claim workers' compensation immunity for injuries suffered by an employee of its wholly owned subsidiary, reversing a summary judgment that had blocked the injured worker's lawsuit.

The Nevada Supreme Court adopted a totality-of-circumstances test for the law-enforcement exception to the going-and-coming rule, affirming workers' compensation coverage for a Las Vegas Metro traffic officer injured while commuting after his sergeant ordered him to get motorcycle seat time.

GGRM attorney Jason Mills secured a Nevada Supreme Court ruling that 'full wages' under the workers comp reopening statute includes overtime pay, giving Henderson firefighter Brian Wolfgram lifetime rights to reopen his claim.

The Nevada Supreme Court's 1991 ruling in Falline v. GNLV Corp. recognized that self-insured employers can face bad-faith tort liability for wrongfully denying workers' compensation claims, a holding the legislature later addressed by enacting NRS 616D.030.

A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court held in April 2023 that an employer invoking the predisposing-condition defense to deny a first responder's heart-disease benefits must affirmatively prove four elements, including that the employee actually had the ability to correct the condition ordered by a physician.