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Inmate who refused medicine can sue doctors for malpractice
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - A prison inmate who stopped taking prescription medicine after complaining about side effects can sue his doctors for malpractice and deliberate indifference for refusing to provide an alternate medication, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled, reversing a trial court’s dismissal of the prisoner’s lawsuit. -
Indiana man can't sue doctors for letting him kill his grandfather
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana man who pled guilty to killing his grandfather can’t sue his doctors for letting him do it, the state’s highest court said, ruling for the first time on whether a criminal plea can block a subsequent civil lawsuit. -
Class action over head trauma against NCAA provides lesson for deposing high-ranking executives
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – A new ruling from the Indiana Supreme Court gives trial judges a lesson on when high-ranking executives can be forced into depositions. -
Indiana loosens rule to allow lawsuit from mother of abused child
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - Saying they were participating in “a process of incremental change,” a majority of justices on the Indiana Supreme Court loosened the rules for lawsuits over emotional distress to allow a mother to sue over the effects of learning her daughter had been sexually abused years before. -
Dangerous roads in Indiana now a liability problem for Department of Transportation
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Indiana’s Department of Transportation will be exposed to new theories of liability over traffic accidents as a result of a recent state Supreme Court decision. -
Indiana Supreme Court won't impose liability for car wreck on property owner who stopped mowing grass
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Tyson Foods won’t be liable for a car wreck that involved a 92-year-old man striking a motorcycle. -
Walmart employee can't be sued over slip-and-fall, ruining plaintiffs' strategy
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana couple’s attempt to get their lawsuit before a more favorable state court failed, as the Indiana Supreme Court said they couldn’t sue the manager of a Walmart store in addition to the company itself. -
Can Ind. man recover med-mal damages when doctors treated someone else?
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A federal appeals court needs help from the Indiana Supreme Court to determine how far a father can go with a claim of medical malpractice when the physicians he sued treated the driver of the car that caused a fatal accident. -
Verdict trimmed because plaintiff refused doctor's orders
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - A man who claimed he was injured after a truck sideswiped his rental car lost his bid to overturn a jury verdict after the Indiana Supreme Court ruled the trial judge was correct in instructing jurors to consider his failure to follow doctor’s orders when calculating how much he should be paid. -
Indiana court decision a lesson on how to get out of jury duty
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – An Indiana Supreme Court opinion shows one roadmap for those who want to get out of jury duty. -
Indiana Supreme Court tells lower court to get back to work on Essure cases
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – A lower court didn’t do enough work when it allowed 36 Essure lawsuits against Bayer to proceed, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled. -
Indiana Supreme Court doesn't give plaintiffs more time to file product liability cases
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) — The Indiana Supreme Court has concluded a section of the state code has a time limitation for legal action that can't be extended by post-delivery fixes, refurbishments or reconstruction of the product in question. -
Indiana Supreme Court rules ambiguous noncompete contract can't be enforced
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – On Dec. 3, the Indiana Supreme Court determined that a nonsolicitation clause in a noncompete agreement is too broad to be enforced in a dispute with a company and its former employee. -
Court determines post-judgment interest on $49.5 million award in dispute between IBM, Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Post-judgment interest on a $49.5 million judgment in IBM’s case with the state of Indiana runs from the judgment on remand, not from the date of the original 2012 judgment, Indiana's Supreme Court ruled. -
INDIANA SUPREME COURT: State of the Judiciary scheduled for January 16
Indiana Chief Justice Loretta H. Rush addressed the Governor and a joint session of the Indiana General Assembly for the annual State of the Judiciary. -
Indiana SC: If a product is misused, its maker can't be sued for resulting injuries
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – An Ohio tool manufacturer is not liable for the injuries a man suffered when he misused one of its power tools and eventually lost an eye, the Indiana Supreme Court recently ruled. -
Ind. SC rules for FanDuel, DraftKings in lawsuit by college athletes seeking money
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Legal Newsline) – The Indiana Supreme Court has answered a question submitted to it by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a case between fantasy sports operators and the use of personalities of former collegiate athletes. -
Indiana Supreme Court rules in favor of Norfolk Southern Railway over state's blocked crossing regulations
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed a summary judgement for Norfolk Southern Railway Co. on Sept. 24 after the state of Indiana handed the transportation entity nearly more than 20 blocked-crossing citations. -
Bed bug-bitten guest failed to prove Blue Chip Casino's negligence caused injury
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – A Michigan City, Indiana, hotel guest didn’t offer sufficient evidence that proved the hotel’s negligence led to bed bugs in his room, the Court of Appeals of Indiana decided Aug. 29. -
No vicarious liability for Ind. Pizza Hut over death allegedly caused by one of its drivers
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – The Indiana Supreme Court has refused to hold a pizza place liable under certian claims for a fatal crash allegedly caused by one of its delivery drivers - a basic and logical decision that prevents turmoil for employers, an attorney for the restaurant says.