No expert was required for the medical malpractice case; common sense and experience is enough to conclude that an arm board should not become detached leaving a patient’s arm dangling for such a period of time that the patient suffers nerve injury.
J. Baker
Hunckler v. Air Sorce-1, Inc., No. 84A01-1405-CT-217, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 3, 2015).
“We will continue to rely on traditional tort and agency principles and, to the extent it was ever applied, abandon the volunteer doctrine.”
R.B. v. K.S., No. 48A05-1406-DR-275, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 3, 2015).
Trial court properly ordered the custodial parent to pay the non-custodial parent nearly $900 a week in child support.
Hitch v. State, No. 49A02-1404-CR-295, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 8, 2015).
Statutory domestic violence crime determination is a fact which increases the penalty for a crime and accordingly must be determined by the jury under the Blakely Sixth Amendment rule.
Legg v. State, No. 49A02-1404-CR-279, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 10, 2014).
Affirms trial court’s decision not to apply the alternative juvenile sentencing provision and to instead impose a standard adult sentence.