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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals
Karen Moratz v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
24-2825
Civil. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Judge Richard Young. Affirms the district court’s summary judgment order in favor of Reliance Standard Insurance Company against Karen Moratz’s lawsuit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 for her disability coverage claim. Finds Moratz was not eligible for benefits in December 2020, when her first application indicated that she was unable to work. Also finds the additional information that Moratz supplied on appeal constituted information about a separate loss—her inability to work beginning in mid-September 2021—and that is a new claim for benefits, requiring Moratz to complete a separate claim process. Attorney for appellant: Robert Saint. Attorney for appellee: Joshua Bachrach.

Indiana Court of Appeals
Brandon L. Keener v. State of Indiana
24A-CR-1894
Criminal. Affirms Brandon Kenner’s conviction in Allen Superior Court of domestic battery, the revocation of his probation, Keener’s two-and-a-half years sentence for the domestic battery conviction and his suspended sentence being executed for the probation violation. Finds the trial court did not err by ignoring Keener’s meritless personal Criminal Rule 4(B) objections to his Nov. 28 trial date in the battery cause. Also finds Keener’s sentence in the battery cause is not inappropriate under Appellate Rule 7(B), and the trial court did not abuse its discretion by executing Keener’s sentence in the nuisance cause as a sanction for Keener violating his probation. Attorney for appellant: David Joley. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Andrew Sweet.

Indiana Court of Appeals
City of New Albany v. Ecosystems Connections, LLC, and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources
24A-PL-2969
Civil plenary. Affirms the Floyd Superior Court’s order that affirmed the Natural Resources Commission’s decision to allow Ecosystems Connections Institute to remove the Providence Mill Dam. Finds that based on the record before the administrative law judge and the commission, the commission did not err in finding that no issue of material fact remained that would preclude summary judgment. Attorney for appellant: Matthew McGovern. Attorneys for appellees: Bradley Sugarman, Daniel McInerny ,Jackson Schroeder, Attorney General Todd Rokita, Kathy Bradley.