Indiana Personal Injury Lawyer and Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog

Indiana homeowners sometimes get into neighborly disputes, and sometimes those disputes end up in court. Unfortunately for Mitchell Schultz (“Schultz”), who year after year had thousands of golf balls fall into his property from an adjacent golf course, breaking windows and damaging his pool, a trial court found that, even though the golf course was…

While January 1st always ushers in a new year, 2026 ushered in something else for Indiana attorneys: an overhaul of Indiana’s Trial Rules. After creating the Civil Litigation Taskforce in 2021 and receiving recommendations from it, the Indiana Supreme Court entered an Order Amending Rules of Trial Procedure in 2025 that went into effect on January 1, 2026. From…

We previously blogged on an important Indiana Medical Malpractice case, Abbas v. Neter-Nu, from the Indiana Supreme Court earlier this year. As this year comes to an end, we write on another Indiana Supreme Court medical malpractice decision, which was issued at the start of the year. In Gierek v. Anonymous 1, Linda Gierek (Gierek) was one…

The Indiana Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion finding a pedestrian’s injuries suffered in an electric scooter crash were recoverable under the pedestrian’s uninsured motorist insurance coverage. In State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. v. DiPego, Michelle DiPego (Michelle), who resides in Muncie, Indiana, suffered injuries while travelling in Baltimore, Maryland when a scooter rider…

Last year we wrote a blog about the tragic case of Indianapolis Pub. Transportation Corp. v. Bush in which Michael Rex Fergerson (“Fergerson”) was killed as he tried to board a bus operated by Indianapolis’s IndyGo, a governmental entity. The Indiana Supreme Court has now issued its opinion. Fergerson was 63 years old and a chronic alcoholic.…

The Indiana Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment in favor of the City of Indianapolis in a lawsuit brought by an electric scooter operator who was injured when his scooter hit a large hole filled with gravel in an Indianapolis sidewalk. In Areche v. Indianapolis Dep’t of Pub. Works, Eliezer Areche (Areche), a Florida resident…

Indiana is unique to most other states in that medical malpractice cases in Indiana must first be presented to a medical review panel before they can be prosecuted in state court. The medical review panel process can easily add years to the time it takes to litigate a case to conclusion. Importantly, the very first…

On June 26, 2025, the Indiana Supreme Court issued a significant opinion in Abbas v. Neter-Nu, a medical malpractice case involving a below-the-knee amputation following allegedly negligent care at Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana. The decision affirms a jury verdict for the patient while clarifying important principles of Indiana medical malpractice law—including how verdicts against multiple…

In one of our previous blogs, we wrote about the opinion of the Indiana Court of Appeals in Isgrig v. Trustees of Indiana University. Recently, the Indiana Supreme Court accepted transfer and issued a decision clarifying the applicability of res ipsa loquitur in premise liability cases. Kiera Isgrig (Isgrig), a student at Indiana University in Bloomington, suffered injuries…

The Indiana Court of Appeals recently reversed the grant of summary judgment to a dog owner in an Indiana dog bite personal injury case. In McElhany v. Grisham, Peggy McElhany (McElhany) was bitten by a pit bull-mix dog named Gus while working as a cashier at an Avon Rural King. Elizabeth Jordan (Jordan) owned Gus. Jordan’s…