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Indiana Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Not Entitled To Default Judgment For Defendant’s Failure To Make Timely Evidentiary Submission

September 14, 2025

Dewight Allen received medical care from Anonymous Providers 1 and 2 and Anonymous Physician 1 (“Providers”) and subsequently submitted a proposed complaint for medical malpractice with the Indiana Department of Insurance (DOI) and filed a complaint in the trial court. After Providers fa[...]

Indiana Supreme Court Holds Heir Not Necessary In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case

March 9, 2019

The Indiana Supreme Court held in its decision dated February 21, 2019 that the plaintiff’s claim for survivor damages “did not abate upon his death and was not dependent on the existence of an heir,” stressing that the case “demonstrates the enduring importance of drafting a[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Orders Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In Lung Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

November 4, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 9, 2018 that the trial court erred in failing to grant summary judgment to the medical malpractice defendants in a case where a surgeon removed a lobe of the plaintiff’s lung after an i[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Affirms Res Ipsa Loquitur Did Not Apply In Medical Malpractice Case

October 10, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its September 14, 2018 opinion that the res ipsa loquitur doctrine does not apply in a medical malpractice case when the injury that occurs is a known complication of surgery or a medical procedure that can occur even if[...]

$15M Indiana Medical Malpractrice Verdict For Misread CT Scan

July 28, 2018

On June 15, 2018, an Indiana medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $15 million ($14 million for the patient and $1 million for her husband) against a radiology group for a radiologist’s negligent misreading of the wife’s CT scan that mi[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Says Medical Malpractice Case Was Filed Too Late

January 4, 2014

In its decision filed on December 27, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Court of Appeals”) determined that the trial judge was correct in entering judgment in favor of the medical malpractice defendants where the plaintiff filed her medical malpractice claim more than two y[...]

Indiana Supreme Court Holds Indiana Patient’s Compensation Fund Liable

November 20, 2012

In its decision rendered on October 31, 2012, the Indiana Supreme Court rejected the arguments of the Indiana Patient’s Compensation Fund in defending against a petition to recover excess damages arising out of a medical malpractice action when the Fund attempted to challenge the existence or[...]

Former Indiana Surgeon Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison

October 20, 2012

On October 12, 2012, a former Indiana surgeon was sentenced by a federal judge to seven years in federal prison, twice the amount of time recommended by federal sentencing guidelines, as a result of his conviction for billing patients and their insurance companies for procedures that he had not per[...]

Indiana Appeals Court Allows Medical Malpractice Case 35 Years Later

August 17, 2012

On August 10, 2012, the Court of Appeals of Indiana filed its opinion in a case in which it allowed a medical malpractice case to proceed despite the medical malpractice having occurred 35 years earlier. On August 4, 2009, the medical malpractice plaintiff filed her claim that alleged that her fami[...]

Former Indiana Doctor Has More Than 350 Medical Malpractice Claims Against Him

July 3, 2012

At one point in time, an Indiana ENT (ear, nose, and throat doctor) was well-respected and some even referred to him as the “Nose Doctor of Merrillville.” But beginning in 2004, local medical malpractice law firms began getting inquiries about possible medical malpractice claims against[...]

Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Victim With Less Than A Year To Live

November 25, 2011

An Indiana jury earlier this year found in favor of a medical malpractice claimant in his malpractice claim against a medical malpractice defendant who failed to timely diagnose and treat his colon cancer in 2004. By the time of the jury’s verdict, this poor medical malpractice victim had l[...]

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