DTCI: Medical Malpractice Vs. Ordinary Negligence
Indiana courts have developed a workable test, but one that makes it difficult in some instances to predict whether certain acts constitute ordinary negligence or medical malpractice.
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Indiana courts have developed a workable test, but one that makes it difficult in some instances to predict whether certain acts constitute ordinary negligence or medical malpractice.
A case before the Indiana Court of Appeals is at least the third pending suit involving Rainbow Realty and its rent-to-buy program. The Indiana Attorney General filed a complaint in Marion Superior Court in January 2013, and the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana in May 2017.
Movie reviewer Bob Hammerle says “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” resonates with matters in the local news, while “The Meg” is about what to expect from a shark-attack film.
Read Indiana appellate decisions from the most recent reporting period.
Evansville-based Imperial Petroleum Inc. has been ordered to pay nearly $32 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission after it failed to reply to the SEC’s court filings seeking damages in a biofuels fraud case that resulted in prison time for the former company president.
A former Hoosier who moved to Florida will get to keep his money after the Indiana Court of Appeals found an order from a Wisconsin state court was void because the Badger State judicial system did not have personal jurisdiction.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Timothy C. Troxel v. Dale Ward, successor in interest to original Plaintiff, Plan Administrators, Inc.
18A-PL-597
Civil plenary. Reverses the LaPorte Circuit Court’s denial of Timothy Troxel’s Trial Rule 60(B) motion to set aside the sale of his stock in an Indiana corporation to satisfy default judgment against him by a Wisconsin corporation. Finds because Troxel was not properly served with notice of the Wisconsin lawsuit, the Wisconsin court did not have personal jurisdiction over him. Therefore, the Wisconsin judgment and any Indiana orders based upon it are void.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to two cases last week, including a decision that found a semi-tractor component manufacturer liable for the death of a construction worker.
The Indiana Supreme Court privately reprimanded an Evansville attorney Friday after he failed to act with reasonable diligence and promptness in communicating with clients whose homestead was burned in an act of vandalism that appeared to be racially motivated.
A northwestern Indiana woman has pleaded not guilty to neglect charges stemming from her 2-year-old daughter’s shooting death.
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s leadership of the campaign at a time when prosecutors say Russian intelligence was working to sway the election, and his involvement in episodes under scrutiny, may make him an especially insightful witness for special counsel Robert Mueller.
The chief of police in Indianapolis says getting body cameras for his officers is a top goal.
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was thrust into turmoil Sunday after the woman accusing him of high school-era sexual misconduct told her story publicly for the first time. Democrats immediately called for a delay in a key committee vote set for this later week and Kavanaugh on Monday went to the White House amid the scrutiny.
In honor of Constitution Day, 13 Indianapolis organizations distributed 1,000 pocket-sized U.S. Constitutions to the public Monday on Monument Circle.
A proposal that would make it illegal to sit or lie on the ground during most of the day in downtown Indianapolis will be introduced this month to the Indianapolis City-County Council by local Republicans.
A man who unsuccessfully pursued an insanity defense failed to convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that the state had the burden of proving he was sane beyond a reasonable doubt in his attempted murder case.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a claim filed by nearly 30 workers who argue a microwave popcorn plant failed to warn them of exposure during the manufacturing process to a butter flavor ingredient that has been linked to a disease known as “popcorn lung.”
A memorial service is set for Monday, Sept. 24, in the Hammond courtroom where the late Northern District of Indiana Senior Judge Rodolfo “Rudy” Lozano presided for three decades, the court announced Friday.
The following 7th Circuit Court opinion was posted after Indiana lawyer deadline Thursday.
Gregory Aregood, Jr. v. Givaudan Flavors Corporation
17-3390
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Judge Sarah Evans Barker.
Civil. Affirms and reverses in part, remands for proceedings. Affirms the District Court for the Southern District of Indiana’s grant of summary judgment to Givaudan Flavors Corp. on its employees’ claims, except for failure to warn. Reverses the grant of summary judgment on the employees’ duty to warn claim based on the sophisticated intermediary doctrine. Remands for proceedings on the duty to warn claim.
A southwestern Indiana jury has acquitted of murder a 21-year-old man whose attorney argued self-defense in the shooting death of a motel co-manager.