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Nevada

THORNDAL, ARMSTRONG, DELK, BALKENBUSH & EISINGER

  775-786-8004

Senate Bill 258 was signed in May 2025. According to the bill itself:

This bill provides that the maximum amount that the industrial insurer or Administrator may recover for such a lien must be the lesser of: (1) the amount of the lien, minus an amount equal to one-half of the reasonable costs incurred by the injured employee or the dependents of the employee in procuring the recovery; or (2) one-third of the total amount of any recovery, inclusive of any attorney’s fees or costs and the monetary value of any other property which is recovered, minus an amount equal to one-half of the reasonable costs incurred by the injured employee or the dependents of the employee in procuring the recovery. This bill requires an itemized memorandum of any such reasonable costs incurred by the injured employee or the dependents of the employee in procuring the recovery to be verified by the injured employee, the dependents of the employee or the attorney or representative of the injured employee or the dependents of the employee, provided to the industrial insurer or Administrator and subject to judicial review under certain circumstances. This bill also limits any offset to the amount of future compensation received by the injured employee or dependents of the employee to: (1) an offset against payments of compensation that are not accident benefits; and (2) a reduction in each such payment which does not exceed one-third of the amount of the payment until the total amount of all such reductions equals the net amount recovered by the injured employee or dependents of the employee.

 

Senate Bill 317 was signed in July 2025. According to the bill itself, it is:

revising certain requirements for an insurer or third-party administrator to maintain a physical office in this State; revising the circumstances under which the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry may conduct certain inspections; revising provisions relating to the administration of certain claims; revising provisions relating to the calculation of certain premium costs; revising provisions relating to certain administrators; revising provisions relating to certain audits; revising provisions relating to certain subsequent injury accounts; authorizing the Administrator to adopt regulations relating to physician assistants; requiring the Administrator to adopt a certain formulary; revising provisions relating to an insurer's list of certain physicians and chiropractic physicians; establishing and revising various requirements for certain hearings relating to industrial insurance claims; revising provisions governing an injury or disease that is caused by stress; revising provisions governing motions to stay certain decisions and petitions for judicial review; revising requirements for payments for a period of temporary partial disability; revising the circumstances under which the Administrator may impose certain administrative fines; repealing provisions governing certain appeals and certain determinations of a percentage of disability; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.