Nevada High Court: Contingent Attorney Fees Capped By Substance Of Settled Claim

( September 18, 2026, 8:13 AM EDT) -- CARSON CITY, Nev. — A Nevada Supreme Court panel held that a lower court erred in awarding attorneys the full amount of requested contingent attorney fees for representing a man in a medical malpractice suit, finding that the fees were capped under state law because the settled claim sounded in professional negligence rather than ordinary negligence....