Under the Indiana Adult Wrongful Death Statute (“AWDS”), Ind. Code § 34-23-1-2, judgment can include expenses of administration, contingent attorney fees, and loss of services.
Civil
Mccabe V. Comm’r Ind. Dept of Ins., No. 49S02-1010-CV-602, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., June 29, 2011)
Attorney fees can be recovered under the Indiana Adult Wrongful Death Statute (“AWDS”), Ind. Code § 34-23-1-2.
Hematology-Oncology of Ind., P.C. V. Fruits, No. 49S05-1106-CV-387, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., June 29, 2011)
Litigation expenses can be recovered under the Indiana Adult Wrongful Death Statute (“AWDS”), Ind. Code § 34-23-1-2.
Citizens State Bank of New Castle V. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., No. 76S03-1009-CV-515, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., June 29, 2011)
Strict foreclosure is a mechanism to place before the court the question of whether the doctrine of merger should be enforced, but “’[w]hether the conveyance of the fee to the mortgagee results in a merger of the mortgage and the fee depends primarily upon the intention of the parties, particularly that of the mortgagee.’”
Turner v. Rogers, No. 10–10, __ U.S. __ (June 20, 2011)
In civil contempt proceedings to enforce child support, “where . . . the custodial parent (entitled to receive the support) is unrepresented by counsel, the State need not provide counsel to the noncustodial parent (required to provide the support),” subject to the “caveat . . . that the State must nonetheless have in place alternative procedures that assure a fundamentally fair determination of the critical incarceration-related question, whether the supporting parent is able to comply with the support order.”