An entity that purchases and later sells a wrecked vehicle is required to apply for a salvage title under Ind. Code § 9-22-3-11(e) when it no longer owns the vehicle upon receipt of the certificate of title.
Civil
Buss v. Harris, No. 52A02-0911-CV-1088, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., May 17, 2010)
Where defendant was not determined to be a sexually violent predator at sentencing, the Department of Correction could not later make that determination. Thus, the trial court properly declined to require the defendant to register as a sexually violent predator for life.
Baugh v. State, No. 18A04-0911-CR-621 , __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 5, 2010)
Defendant’s argument that live testimony on sexually violent predator status was required by the SVP statute was waived by defendant’s failure at sentencing to object to its absence.
In re the Paternity of N.L.P., No. 45S03-0904-JV-133, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Apr. 30, 2010)
Where the parties in a domestic relations dispute sign a written agreement retaining the services of a guardian ad litem, the trial court is bound to enforce the terms of the agreement when awarding fees and expenses incurred by the GAL, unless the terms are contrary to public policy.
Cutter v. Classic Fire & Marine Ins. Co., No. 49A05-0906-CV-315, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., May 5, 2010)
Cutter v. Classic Fire & Marine Ins. Co. (Ind. Ct. App., Crone, J.) – (1) Because employees’ claim against employer was completely distinct from employer’s claim against his insurance company, a distribution from the insurance company’s liquidation estate to the employer’s assignee did not implicate the prohibition against double recovery; (2) because a suit for the dissolution of an insurance company has been regarded as an equitable action, the suit was not triable to a jury.