Indiana Personal Injury Lawyer and Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog

The Indiana Court of Appeals recently addressed how the Indiana Tort Claims Act’s notice requirement applies when an injured person does not learn until well into litigation that the person who caused her injuries was a government employee acting within the scope of his employment. In Janowiak v. Sandage, Hannah Janowiak (“Janowiak”) was struck by…

The Indiana Court of Appeals recently decided a dispute over the amount of underinsured motorist coverage available to two individuals injured in a truck crash with an at-fault, underinsured motorist. In Cline v. Everest Nat’l Ins. Co., Michael Cline and Jacob Sofronko (“Plaintiffs”), co-workers riding in a company-owned dump truck driven by Sofronko, were severely injured…

When a patient is injured in a hospital, some of the most useful evidence about what went wrong is generated by the hospital itself, in the form of internal incident reports and subsequent reviews of the event. Whether an injured patient can actually obtain those documents in litigation, however, depends on a web of overlapping…

We previously blogged on a personal injury pothole case, Johnson v. City of Michigan City, in which a woman in Michigan City suffered a tibial plateau fracture when she hit a large pothole while riding her bicycle. In a divided opinion, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s decision finding Michigan City immune from…

We previously wrote a blog on a swimming pool injury case that the Indiana Supreme Court allowed to proceed to trial finding a material issue of fact as to the pool operator’s negligence in maintaining and operating the pool and for its role in the design of the pool. In Pennington v. Memorial Hospital of South…

The Indiana Supreme Court recently clarified the “Reece rule,” established by the Court in Reece v. Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., 173 N.E.3d 1031 (Ind. 2021), which provides that landowners in Indiana owe a duty to passing motorists on adjacent highways not to create hazardous conditions that visit themselves upon the roadway; but when a land use or…

We previously blogged on the Indiana Court of Appeals decision in Caryl Rosen v. Community Healthcare System, where the appellate court found the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to give a spoliation jury instruction. The Indiana Supreme Court has now weighed in, vacating the Court of Appeals’ opinion and affirming the trial court’s original…

When individuals or families suffer injuries due to the negligence or intentional wrongdoings of others, the civil justice system is often their only avenue for obtaining fair compensation and holding the responsible parties accountable. At Barsumian Armiger Injury Lawyers, we fight every day to ensure our clients are treated fairly under the law. However, a…

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…