Indiana Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements
26 independently-sourced personal injury results from Indiana firms, largest first. Filter by practice area or result type. Each links to the full story, the firm, the attorneys, and the record behind the number.
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A Tippecanoe County jury awarded $157 million to the widow of Timothy Simonton, a 42-year-old Indiana man who died in October 2005 after the locking pins on an Ol' Man tree stand failed and left him hanging from a tree during a deer-scouting outing.
CohenMalad recovered $66.5 million on behalf of 262 patients who alleged that Dr. Arvind Gandhi and Cardiology Associates of Northwest Indiana implanted pacemakers and defibrillators and performed open-heart surgeries that were never medically necessary.
Cohen & Malad's Irwin Levin secured a $62 million class action settlement in 2017 after proving the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles had knowingly overcharged 5.5 million drivers across more than 100 fee categories for over a decade.
Irwin Levin of CohenMalad served as court-appointed co-lead class counsel in a multidistrict antitrust case against seven central Indiana ready-mixed concrete companies, securing approximately $59 million in combined settlements for construction-industry buyers who paid inflated prices during a four-year price-fixing conspiracy.
Robert T. Dassow of Hovde Dassow + Deets served as local liaison counsel for the plaintiffs steering committee in the Biomet M2A Magnum metal-on-metal hip implant MDL, helping coordinate a settlement valued at least $56 million, with individual awards paid from a program that ultimately resolved roughly 2,800 claims nationwide.
CohenMalad partner David Cutshaw co-led a $55 million Indiana Patient's Compensation Fund settlement for 282 patients who underwent unnecessary or damaging sinus surgeries performed by Dr. Mark Weinberger, a Merrillville ENT who later fled the country and was found hiding in the Italian Alps.
A Marion County jury in March 2024 awarded $60.7 million to motorcyclist Christopher Dugan after a Tesla service manager crossed double yellow lines and struck him, leaving him with a permanent traumatic brain injury and a partial foot amputation; comparative fault reduced the net award to $42.5 million.
Cohen & Malad's Irwin Levin secured a $30 million class action settlement in 2013 after proving the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles had been charging drivers as much as $6 too much per license for six years.
A Lake County jury awarded $25 million to Patricia Amsden after her husband Phillip was struck and killed on Interstate 65 by a driver with a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, holding the driver, his employer, and two bars that served him accountable.
Cohen and Malad, co-counsel in a class action on behalf of more than 2,000 Indiana homeowners, secured a $24 million settlement against builder Trinity Homes and parent Beazer Homes after faulty brick construction allowed widespread water intrusion and mold growth.
A Marion County jury awarded $20 million to a union carpenter left permanently disabled after Indianapolis Power and Light issued a faulty dig permit that failed to account for a live 4,160-volt electrical line at its Petersburg power plant.
After a neurosurgeon slipped on a wet hospital pantry floor and developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy that ended his surgical career, an Evansville jury found St. Mary's Medical Center fully at fault and awarded $16.95 million, a verdict the Indiana Court of Appeals later affirmed.
A Marion County jury awarded $6 million to the estate of Michael Rex Fergerson, who died after an IndyGo bus driver pulled away from a stop too early and ran over him; the Indiana Supreme Court reinstated the verdict in 2025 after the Court of Appeals had reversed it.
Jackson County, Indiana agreed to pay $5.6 million to the family of Ta'Neasha Chappell, a 23-year-old Louisville mother who died in jail custody in July 2021 after nearly 20 hours of ignored medical pleas.
A Morgan County jury awarded $1,250,075 to a plumbing contractor who suffered severe burns after a Carmel High School maintenance employee ignited a pool heater's pilot light over the contractor's explicit objection, triggering a gas explosion that blew the roof off the building.
A Richmond obstetrician ordered a contraction stress test instead of the recommended non-stress evaluation as a 34-week fetus showed distress, and a Wayne County jury held him responsible for the baby's death.
The mother of M. Shane Satterfield, 38, recovered $640,000 from Decatur County's liability insurer after he died of untreated alcohol withdrawal while serving a drunk-driving sentence at the county jail.
Roughly two dozen women sued after a Clark County jail officer sold cell keys to male detainees, and the county's insurer paid $328,000 to settle the federal suits that Wagner Reese helped bring.
Four former North Central High School students settled their federal suit against the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township for $245,000 after alleging the district ignored years of warnings about a drama teacher's grooming, with Wagner Reese's Jeff Gibson representing the plaintiffs.
Indianapolis paid $150,000 in 2013 to settle the federal civil rights suit of Brandon Johnson, a 15-year-old beaten by IMPD officers during his younger brother's 2010 arrest, with Stephen Wagner of Wagner Reese representing him.
A Marion County jury found Indianapolis landlords 85 percent at fault for a tenant's fall down a rental staircase that had no code-required handrail, awarding her $121,770 for permanent ankle and nerve damage.
Craig Kelley and Faultless LLC persuaded the Indiana Supreme Court to reverse two lower-court defeats and restore the negligence claims of Yerano and Jessica Martinez, who were injured when a landowner's overgrown bush concealed a stop sign at a rural Miami County intersection.
The estate of Monica W. Vaught, 49, reached a confidential settlement in February 2025 with the City of Greenwood, Indiana, resolving federal civil rights and wrongful death claims stemming from a March 2022 police shooting in the Greenwood police department parking lot.
Wilson Kehoe Winingham represents donor children of Indianapolis fertility doctor Donald Cline, who secretly inseminated patients with his own sperm; related civil cases settled for about $1.35 million, and in 2025 the firm won an appeal reviving a client's claim that a trial court had dismissed as untimely.