Sonia Das Sturm is Senior Counsel at Lewis Wagner LLP, where she focuses on defending clients in asbestos-related and mass tort cases. With over two decades of experience, Sonia has built a robust practice in Indiana’s mass tort litigation and workers' compensation matters. She first joined Lewis Wagner as a law clerk in 1999, eventually becoming an associate and partner, managing the firm’s asbestos, silica, and coal tar pitch mass tort dockets. Sonia also handled general insurance defense, negligence claims, appellate practice, and environmental insurance coverage litigation.
After leaving the firm in 2013, Sonia spent the next decade representing employers through insurance companies and third-party administrators in all aspects of workers' compensation cases, including mediation and appeals to Indiana’s highest courts. In 2024, she returned to Lewis Wagner, bringing her extensive experience and passion for client advocacy back to where her career began.
Outside the office, Sonia enjoys cooking, tennis, fishing, kayaking, and camping.
Sonia Das Sturm is Senior Counsel at Lewis Wagner LLP, where she focuses on defending clients in asbestos-related and mass tort cases. With over two decades of experience, Sonia has built a robust practice in Indiana’s mass tort litigation and workers' compensation matters. She first joined Lewis Wagner as a law clerk in 1999, eventually becoming an associate and partner, managing the firm’s asbestos, silica, and coal tar pitch mass tort dockets. Sonia also handled general insurance defense, negligence claims, appellate practice, and environmental insurance coverage litigation.
After leaving the firm in 2013, Sonia spent the next decade representing employers through insurance companies and third-party administrators in all aspects of workers' compensation cases, including mediation and appeals to Indiana’s highest courts. In 2024, she returned to Lewis Wagner, bringing her extensive experience and passion for client advocacy back to where her career began.
Outside the office, Sonia enjoys cooking, tennis, fishing, kayaking, and camping.
Over the past two decades, Sonia Das Sturm has contributed to legal education through presentations and publications, particularly regarding worker’s compensation. Sonia has presented for the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (ICLEF) and other continuing education providers on various topics in worker’s compensation. Additionally, Sonia is invited to make several presentations each year to insurance companies and employers on relevant legal topics. Past publications and presentations include:
Defense counsel in worker’s compensation 2021 decision affirming an insurance company’s denial of compensability where a traveling employee sustained a syncopal episode in the course of employment but failed to prove his accident arose out of employment.
Defense counsel and appellate counsel in a 2017 worker’s compensation decision successfully denying claims to include neck/cervical spine injuries where the injured worker suffered only compensable injuries to the knee and shoulder.
Defense counsel and appellate counsel in a 2016 decision defeating claims that a worker’s compensation insurer acted with a lack of diligence in the handling and adjusting of a worker’s compensation claim.
Contributing appellate brief writer in J.C. Penney Co. v. Simon Property Group, Inc., 928 N.E.2d 579 (Ind. Ct. App. 2010) (affirming the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to a shopping mall owner and security company, finding they owed no duty to a passerby who was attacked by a Canada goose on property that was not owned, maintained, retained, controlled secured or supervised by the mall owner or security company)
Principal appellate brief writer in DAP, Inc. v. Akaiwa, 872 N.E2d 1098 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007) and related cases (addressing the applicability of a statute of repose, Ind. Code § 34-20-3-2 (subsequently invalidated in other cases) in asbestos-related product liability claims.
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