Victims of sexual abuse or sexual assault have the right to file civil lawsuits and get financial compensation. Recent changes in the law are now making it easier for abuse victims to seek justice in the civil courts. This post will discuss how sex abuse victims can file civil lawsuits…
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Indiana Personal Injury Law
This page looks at settlement amounts and jury payouts in personal injury cases in Indiana. Our lawyers also provide an analysis of Indiana personal injury law. If you are a personal injury victim bringing a compensation claim in Indiana is only natural to want to know how much your case might…
Pre-Judgment Interest Medical Malpractice Case
The Indiana Supreme Court sent back to the trial court last week a wrongful death medical malpractice action involving the tragic death of a child after surgery for an undescended left testicle. The boy was just 13 months old. Just awful. The issue in Alsheik v. Guerrero was something far…
A Product or a Service? Battle in Indiana
Trying to tell the difference between a product and a service may not be harder than deciding if a glass is half full or half empty, or if a tomato is better characterized as a fruit than as a vegetable, but it is certainly not easy.” Whitaker v. T.J. Snow…
Fatal School Bus Accident Prompts Suit Involving Seatbelts
A fatal school bus accident last week has prompted a lawsuit alleging unsafe conditions for the bus’ lack of seatbelts. The details here are sad. The 60 year old school bus driver and a five-year-old little girl were killed in the crash. The bus, which struck a bridge, was carrying…
Indiana Personal Injury Verdict Statistics
Jury Verdict Research has come out with some new data that underscores how hard it is to rely on verdict statistics in a particular jurisdiction to prove how that venue values cases. JVR found that the median compensatory award for personal injury trials in Indiana is $25,036 and injured plaintiffs…