Indiana Court of Appeals Upholds Insurance Policy’s Two-Year Suit Limitation on UM Claim
Napier v. Am. Family Mut. Ins. Co., 2021 WL 5291911 (Ind. Ct. App. 2021) In 2014 and 2015, Paula Napier was involved in automobile accidents with operators of uninsured vehicles. More than three years later, in 2019, Napier sued her auto insurer, American Family Insurance Company, seeking uninsured motorist (“UM”) benefits for the accidents. American […]
Lewis Wagner Ranked in 2022 “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers
Lewis Wagner is proud to have received Tier 1 recognition in nine practice areas in the 2022 “Best Law Firms” list, released by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, including new Tier 1 accolades in the categories of Litigation – Insurance, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, and Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants. Within the Indianapolis metropolitan […]
Lewis Wagner Partner John C. Trimble Receives Louis B. Potter Lifetime Professional Service Award
Lewis Wagner is proud to announce that partner John C. Trimble has received the 2021 Louis B. Potter Lifetime Professional Service Award. The Award was presented during the Defense Research Institute’s Annual Meeting on October 15, 2021, in Boston. This national honor is presented each year on behalf of DRI and recognizes one […]
Lewis Wagner Welcomes Two New Attorneys
Lewis Wagner is pleased to welcome two associate attorneys to the firm. Ronald C. Gilbert, III will focus his practice on defending professional liability, products liability, class action, and consumer protection matters. Prior to joining Lewis Wagner, Ron practiced at both a boutique litigation firm and a large law firm where he represented Fortune 500 […]
Indiana Court of Appeals Concludes That General Liability Insurer Owed Duty to Defend Bar in Lawsuit by Accident Victim After Intoxicated Bar Patron Was Expelled
Ebert v. Illinois Cas. Co., 2021 WL 3853062 (Ind. Ct. App. 2021) Illinois Casualty provided both general liability and liquor liability insurance policies to two bars, Little Daddy’s and Big Daddy’s. A patron consumed alcohol at Big Daddy’s and became intoxicated. Big Daddy’s was using a bouncer who was an employee of Little Daddy’s, which […]
17 Lewis Wagner Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers
Lewis Wagner congratulates Richard M. Blaiklock, Dina M. Cox, Jarrell B. Hammond, Kyle A. Lansberry, and Thomas C. Hays, who have been named Indianapolis Lawyer of the Year in The Best Lawyers in America 2022. Only one attorney in each specific practice and each geographic region is selected as Lawyer of the Year by Best […]
Court Of Appeals Finds That “Insured Location” Did Not Extend to Nearby Parking Lot in Which Insureds Joyrode Golf Cart
Hoppe v. Safeco Ins. Co. of Indiana, 2021 WL 3137195 (Ind. Ct. App. 2021) In Hoppe, a minor was injured after falling off of a golf cart being driven by her friend, the minor daughter of the insureds, in the parking lot of an outdoor music venue across the street from the insureds’ home in […]
Box Factory Anchors NOMA Neighborhood
Indiana Business Journal: Laymen could be forgiven for not immediately grasping the economic potential of the Box Factory building, a 135,000-square-foot monolith that was built in 1920 for the U.S. Corrugated Box Co., which later morphed into Lacy Distributing. Located at 1411 Roosevelt Ave., just north of the Mass Ave Cultural District, it sat idle […]
Indiana Court of Appeals Concludes That MCS-90 Endorsement Applies to Intrastate Motor Carrier Travel
Progressive Southeastern Ins. Co. v. B&T Bulk, LLC 2021 WL 1747897 (Ind. Ct. App. 2021) Interpretation and application of an MCS-90 Endorsement is an ever evolving line of judicial decisions. In this case, the Indiana Court of Appeals addressed and offered two important rulings. First, the Court determined that the MCS-90 Endorsement, in Indiana, applies […]
Court of Appeals Upholds Insurer’s Introduction of Medical Bills at UIM Trial Even Though Plaintiff Sought No Recovery for Those Bills
Gladstone v. West Bend Mut. Ins. Co., 2021 WL 1113900 (Ind. Ct. App. 2021) Plaintiffs’ attorneys, defense attorneys, and insurers have long quarreled about the admissibility of evidence for measuring medical damages in personal injury actions. Before the Indiana Supreme Court’s decisions in Stanley v. Walker, 906 N.E.2d 852 (Ind. 2009) and Patchett v. Lee, […]
