Lawyers appealing the NFL's $1 billion plan to address concussion-linked injuries in former players asked a court Thursday to reject the settlement because it excludes what they call the signature brain disease of football.
Saying “it’s time,” Indianapolis attorney Samuel “Chic” Born is retiring from the practice of law at year’s end.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Mary K. Patchett v. Ashley N. Lee
29A04-1501-CT-1
Civil tort. Affirms on interlocutory appeal the grant of a motion in limine filed by Lee and order that evidence of payments made by the Healthy Indiana Plan to reimburse Lee’s medical providers in full satisfaction of her bills was barred by the collateral source statute and is not admissible under Indiana case law. Determines that the rule of Stanley applies only to lower paid amounts when those amounts are the result of negotiated discounts and therefore are probative of a medical service’s reasonable value.
An Indiana-based e-filing company offering service enhancements is the first certified alternative provider for the state trial and appellate courts’ fledgling electronic filing program.
Medical payments made by the Healthy Indiana Plan for a woman involved in a car accident to reimburse her medical providers in full satisfaction of hospital bills were properly excluded at trial, the Court of Appeals held Thursday. The trial court correctly ruled that those payments are barred by the collateral source statute and that Stanley v. Walker does not apply.
A judge on Thursday sentenced former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle to 15 years and eight months in federal prison — even more than requested by prosecutors — for trading in child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes.
The percentage of African-American associates at law firms has declined each of the last six years, a trend NALP Executive Director James Leipold calls “distressing.”
A documentary following an Indiana teen with an IQ of 40 and others who were abandoned by their parents and ended up behind bars will debut on public television tonight.
Tribes across the U.S. are finding marijuana is risky business nearly a year after a Justice Department policy indicated they could grow and sell pot under the same guidelines as states.
A northwest Indiana man charged with strangling two women has decided not to represent himself during his upcoming trial.
After going on paid administrative leave this fall, Carmel City Attorney Dough Haney received a 23 percent raise that will take effect in 2016.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Ada Brown v. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration
87A01-1501-PL-38
Civil plenary. Reverses imposition of a transfer penalty by FSSA against Brown, after finding she is eligible for Medicaid benefits, based on the sale of Brown’s home in 2010. Evidence shows the proceeds from the sale of the home were placed back in her irrevocable trust and the fair market value of her home was $75,000, not $91,900 as FSSA had valued it.
Once again, the Indiana General Assembly is being asked to expand law enforcement’s ability to collect DNA.
The Indiana Court of Appeals found a man’s due process rights were violated because the state couldn’t prove he was advised of his constitutional rights at his probation revocation hearing. The appeals court ordered further proceedings on the matter, including reducing his period of probation to comply with statute.
Based on evidence presented that a Medicaid recipient’s home sold for $75,000 – the fair market value – and proceeds went back to the irrevocable trust that held legal title of the home, the Family and Social Services Administration incorrectly imposed a transfer penalty against the woman after it found the fair market value was $91,900, the Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
The top Republican in the Indiana House on Tuesday endorsed tightening state law to require a doctor's prescription for cold and allergy medications that can be used to make methamphetamine.
Indiana Senate Republicans released a proposal Tuesday that would extend state civil rights protections to LGBT people while also carving out broad exemptions for religious institutions and some small businesses that object to working with gay people.
An East Chicago councilman charged with murder has pleaded not guilty at an arraignment hearing in federal court.
A Florida-based company has withdrawn its request for a zoning variance to build an 800-bed immigration detention facility near the Gary Chicago International Airport.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed tougher new limits on Tuesday on smokestack emissions from nearly two dozen states — including Indiana — that burden downwind areas with air pollution from power plants they can't control.