Workers' comp deadlines in Nevada: tell your employer and file

Tell your employer in writing within 7 days (the date of the accident, or the onset of an occupational disease). File your claim within 90 days (the date of the accident, for an occupational disease, the date you knew of its onset).

Checked against official sources: October 31, 2026.

Deadlines are strict. If you are near one, call the state agency or free help today.

Tell your employer in Nevada

Time limit
7 days
Counted from

The date of the accident (or the onset of an occupational disease)

In writing?
Yes, in writing
If you are late

If you do not file the written notice, you can be barred from benefits. The insurer may excuse a late notice if the injury or another cause beyond your control kept you from giving it, if you did not know the facts or the law, if you were physically or mentally unable, or if you were misled by fraud or deceit.

Illness that develops over time

For an occupational disease, give written notice within 7 days after you learn of the disease.

Tell your supervisor right away and fill out the Notice of Injury or Occupational Disease that your employer must keep on hand. You must give this written notice as soon as practicable, but no later than 7 days after the accident. Your employer or supervisor signs the form to show it was received, and you keep a copy.

Source: Form C-1

Law: NRS 616C.015, 616C.025

Source: dir.nv.gov

File your claim in Nevada

Time limit
90 days
Counted from

The date of the accident (for an occupational disease, the date you knew of its onset)

What to file

Employee's Claim for Compensation / Report of Initial Treatment, which you fill out and sign at your first medical visit; the treating doctor or chiropractor completes it and files it with your employer and the insurer within 3 working days

Source: Form C-4

Claim form
Notice of Injury or Occupational Disease (Incident Report)
Who files it

You give the signed Form C-1 to your employer within 7 days. If you get medical care, you fill out the top of Form C-4 at your first visit; the doctor or chiropractor completes it and sends it to your employer and the insurer within 3 working days. Your employer does not file the C-1 with its insurer; it keeps it for 3 years.

What your employer must do

Your employer must keep blank C-1 forms available, sign your notice to acknowledge receipt, and post the D-1 poster naming its insurer and authorized doctors. Within 6 working days after receiving the C-4, the employer must file the Employer's Report of Industrial Injury with the insurer, and a wage verification form (D-8) if you will be off 5 days or more.

Source: Form C-3

When the insurer decides

Within 30 days after it is notified of the accident (the C-4), the insurer must accept the claim and start payment, or deny it in writing and tell you your appeal rights. If the insurer unreasonably delays or refuses payment within 30 days, it can be ordered to pay three times the amount delayed.

Illness that develops over time

You have 90 days from knowledge of the onset of an occupational disease to file the claim.

Your claim starts with Form C-4, given to you by the medical provider at your first treatment. The claim must be filed with the insurer within 90 days after the accident if you got medical treatment or missed work. There is no claim until a completed C-4 signed by you and the doctor has been filed with the correct insurer. In a death case, dependents have 1 year after the death to file.

Law: NRS 616C.020, 616C.025, 616C.040

Source: dir.nv.gov

Law: NRS 616C.015, 616C.040, 616C.045, 616C.065

Source: dir.nv.gov

Waiting period and first payment in Nevada

Waiting period

Temporary disability compensation is not paid for an injury that keeps you from earning full wages for fewer than 5 consecutive days, or fewer than 5 days in total within a 20-day period. Medical care is covered either way.

Paid back for the waiting days

Once your doctor certifies that you cannot work for 5 or more days in a row, or 5 days in total within a 20-day period, compensation is paid from the date of the injury.

First payment

If temporary total disability is allowed, the first payment must be issued within 14 working days after the insurer receives the first certification of disability, and regularly after that (usually every 14 days).

How often you are paid
Every two weeks

Law: NRS 616C.400, 616C.475(3)

Source: dir.nv.gov

Sources

The official sources for Nevada are listed on the Nevada page.