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A national report says opioid prescriptions in Indiana have decreased by 35.1 percent over five years. The American Medical Association Opioid Task Force 2019 Progress Report shows Indiana’s reduction in opioid prescriptions from 2013 to 2018 is two percentage points higher than the national average of 33 percent.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Flatrock River Lodge v. Morris Stout and Tonia Sue Stout
18A-CC-1919
Civil Collection. Reverses the Rush Circuit Court’s order denying Flatrock’s motion to execute its judgment lien on Morris Stout’s interest in 46 acres of real estate previously owned by second-generation owner Stout and third-generation owner Tonia, as joint tenants with right of survivorship. Finds that the appeal is not mooted by Morris’ death and that the real estate is not exempt from execution on the judgment lien.
A Jeffersonville man is appealing his 120-year prison sentence for molesting children while working at a YMCA and at an elementary school.
A man accused in the October slaying of a businessman in southern Indiana during a robbery has pleaded guilty to murder.
Holding her infant foster daughter, attorney Kiamesha Colom explained in simple terms a 13-page bill that revamps parts of Indiana’s foster care system. Come July 1, she and her husband, like other long-term foster parents around the state, will be able to have more of a say in the care and protection of their baby.
An appellate panel considered Wednesday whether a healthcare facility employee’s act of kicking a resident, resulting in his death, could be shielded from liability under the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act.
A woman alleging domestic violence at the hands of her husband will have another chance to make her case for a protective order against him after the Indiana Court of Appeals ordered a trial court to conduct a new hearing.
The death of a Rush County man whose parents deeded him and their granddaughter 46 acres of property in 1985 does not moot a judgment lien attached to the property, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday, reversing the trial court.
Indiana Rep. Susan Brooks, a Republican who has represented Indiana’s 5th District since 2013, announced Friday morning that she will not run for a fifth term in Congress.
Muncie-based First Merchants Bank has settled a federal lawsuit, following U.S. Department of Justice allegations that the bank engaged in lending discrimination by redlining predominantly African-American neighborhoods in Indianapolis.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Bryce A. Burton v. Martin Benner and Indiana State Police
19A-CT-135
Civil tort. Reverses the Benton Circuit Court’s grant of partial summary judgment in favor of Indiana State Police Trooper Martin Benner in Bryce A. Burton’s lawsuit arising from a personal injury motorcycle crash. Finds the trial court erred by finding as a matter of law that Benner was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the crash. Remands for proceedings.
A Vanderburgh County nursing aid has been sentenced to more than two years of probation after slipping anxiety medication into the food of senior citizens she was charged with caring for.
Supporters and opponents are mobilizing after the neighbors of an 8,000-hog farm in Hendricks County asked the Indiana Court of Appeals to reconsider its earlier ruling that found their nuisance claim based on the “noxious odors” from the farming operation was barred under Indiana’s Right to Farm Act.
The Indiana Department of Correction’s refusal to disclose to the public information concerning the means it would use to execute a condemned criminal will cost taxpayers more than a half-million dollars in attorney fees, a judge has ruled.
A motorcyclist injured in a crash after he attempted to evade a head-on collision with an oncoming state police trooper’s vehicle will have his day in court after the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a trial court ruling for the officer.
A St. Joseph County jury has convicted a woman of murder in the 1988 beating death of a pregnant mother abducted while walking her dog in northern Indiana.
A judge in Jeffersonville has ruled a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and eating parts of her body can reject an insanity defense.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed an eight-year prison term for a man who pleaded guilty in Vigo Superior Court to neglect in the death of a malnourished 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy.
A southwestern Indiana judge has rejected a man’s request to block the release of records on authorities’ investigation into his daughter’s 2014 disappearance and death.
An Indiana teenager accusing of stabbing her mother more than 60 times has been sentenced to 45 years in prison.