Month: March 2019

Permanent Link Archived: https://perma.cc/PM4E-GWE9 After last week’s flurry of notable civil decisions from Indiana’s appellate courts, this week was fairly quiet. An interesting footnote to Indiana legal history was added as the Court of Appeals of Indiana for the first time handed down a decision in a direct appeal from the Marion County Small Claims Court. That is notable because,…

Permanent Link Archived: https://perma.cc/LWM8-AQX4 Today’s discussion supplants one we had back in June, wherein we discussed the Court of Appeals of Indiana’s ruling in Horejs v. Milford. There, the appellate court held that when the lone beneficiary of a wrongful-death claim dies during the pendency of the wrongful-death suit leaving no heirs that the claim dies with the beneficiary. The…