How this estimate is built
Your medical expenses and lost wages are your economic damages, never capped in Nevada. We apply the multiplier method, the industry-standard approach, to estimate noneconomic damages — then check the result against the medical malpractice cap, if it applies.
The 51% bar, standard structure
Under NRS 41.141, a claimant whose fault is not greater than the combined fault of the defendants can recover, reduced proportionally. The Nevada Supreme Court confirmed the rule's strictness in Langon v. Matamoros, affirming that a plaintiff who exceeds the 50% threshold receives nothing.
A med-mal cap on a defined, recent rising schedule
Nevada's noneconomic damages cap in medical malpractice cases sat at a flat $350,000 for years. A 2023 law, Assembly Bill 404, changed that for malpractice occurring on or after October 1, 2023: the cap now rises by $80,000 every January 1 from 2024 through 2028, when it reaches $750,000, after which it increases 2.1% annually. For 2026, that puts the cap at $590,000 — well above the old flat figure, and still climbing.
A constitutional foundation and no general cap outside malpractice
Nevada's malpractice cap traces back to a 2004 statewide ballot initiative, giving it a more durable legal footing than an ordinary statute. Outside medical malpractice, Nevada places no cap on damages at all — and it isn't for lack of trying: four separate bills between 2001 and 2007 sought to extend a $250,000 noneconomic cap to all personal injury and wrongful death cases, and none became law.