Fired trucker’s malpractice claim filed too late to collect from insurer, Nevada Supreme Court rules [Las Vegas Sun]
By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun | |
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In 2002 Ahmadi was performing a root canal and used street cocaine to deaden the pain to Williams' gums.
A short time later, Williams sideswiped a gas meter at a home while backing up his cement truck. The company required him to take a drug test. It came back positive despite the insistence of Williams he never used cocaine. He lost his job and his 20-year career as a union truck driver.
Ahmadi acknowledged the root canal medication may have caused the positive drug test.
His license to practice in
Ahmadi's malpractice policy expired
Earlier, on
He gained a default judgment and his lawyers filed a claim with the insurance company several months later.
District Judge
"For coverage a claim must be made and reported within the policy period," Justice
The court further found the news accounts of the dentist's problems did not constitute a claim for a malpractice payment.
A spokeswoman for the state
During the board's investigation, one staff member reported seeing Ahmadi cook and smoke cocaine at work and another employee said Ahmadi was subject to weight loss and bizarre mood swings.
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