This past week the Indiana Supreme Court had an opportunity to address the role of the Indiana Guest Statute to a person who was injured while outside of a vehicle and attempting to direct the driver while parking. The Indiana Guest Statuteprovides that “[t]he owner,...
Month: July 2012
Infliction of Emotional Distress: The Law Behind Court Ruling on Case Involving Mishandling of Remains of 750-Pound Woman
Many of you, like me, may have recently read an article in the Indianapolis Star entitled Court rules 750-pound woman’s family can sue coroner over treatment of her dead body and wondered what exactly the case was about. The story in the Star is an eye-catching title...
Damages Pt. 12 — Contract Damages
This week’s post, brought to you by the attorneys at Pavlack Law, seeks to explain the various damages that can be recovered for the breach of a contract. Before jumping into the damages aspect it is important to realize that in a technical legal sense a contract is...
How Does a Class Action Case Work?
This week the attorneys here at Pavlack Law are taking a brief respite from the series on damages to discuss the basics of how Class Action law works. Recently, we have been in contact with many of the persons who suffered losses as a result of the fire and defective...