2013 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 690B - Casualty Insurance
NRS 690B.042 - Claimant for damages for personal injury to provide medical reports, records and bills or authorization to receive reports, records and bills to opposing party upon request; insurer to disclose pertinent facts or provisions of policy relating to coverage at issue to insured or claimant upon request.
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, any party against whom a claim is asserted for compensation or damages for personal injury under a policy of motor vehicle insurance covering a passenger car may require any attorney representing the claimant to provide to the party and the insurer or attorney of the party, not more than once every 90 days, all medical reports, records and bills concerning the claim.
2. In lieu of providing medical reports, records and bills pursuant to subsection 1, the claimant or any attorney representing the claimant may provide to the party or the insurer or attorney of the party a written authorization to receive the reports, records and bills from the provider of health care. At the written request of the claimant or the attorney of the claimant, copies of all reports, records and bills obtained pursuant to the authorization must be provided to the claimant or the attorney of the claimant within 30 days after the date they are received. If the claimant or the attorney of the claimant makes a written request for the reports, records and bills, the claimant or the attorney of the claimant shall pay for the reasonable costs of copying the reports, records and bills.
3. Upon receipt of any photocopies of medical reports, records and bills, or a written authorization pursuant to subsection 2, the insurer who issued the policy specified in subsection 1 shall, upon request, immediately disclose to the insured or the claimant all pertinent facts or provisions of the policy relating to any coverage at issue.
4. As used in this section, passenger car has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 482.087.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 1747; A 1999, 2815; 2013, 489)
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