Part II – Getting Medical Care: Being your own Advocate In our second edition of “The Anatomy of a Case” series, we’re going to talk about the most important thing after an injury……getting better. And that has nothing to do with your case, you just want to get...
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Anatomy of a Civil Case — Part I
This is the first post in a series we’re calling The Anatomy of a Civil Case. Some of the conventional wisdom about what how a claim and litigation works is correct, lots more is simply wrong. Every personal injury case is unique to its specific set of facts, but...
Kobe Bryant Crash Lawsuit
It recently made the news that Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, has filed a lawsuit against the company that operated the helicopter that Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven others were killed in on January 26, 2020. The Crash Kobe Bryant had been known to...
Slips & Falls on Snow and Ice
Of all the personal injury clients we represent in Indiana, car and motorcycle accidents are the most common. But this is Indiana after all, so winter time slips and falls due to snow and ice also happen all the time. It’s been a mild winter in the Indianapolis area...
Santa Claus is coming to town (and he’s suing if he falls off your roof)
It is almost time. The children have been counting down the days since Thanksgiving (a couple of our attorneys’ wives have been counting down since Halloween). There is something in the air, but what if the unthinkable happens—Santa Claus is injured while delivering...
Statutory Damage Caps in Personal Injury Cases
I’m sure you have heard of those mystical personal injury law suits where the plaintiff supposedly recovered millions of dollars for a stubbed toe. Well, this example is obviously hypothetical, but you get my point. The majority of the public feels that civil...
Ladendorf Law Sponsors Inaugural Lt. Michael Andry Memorial Ride
A recap of the July 12, 2014 Lt. Michael Andry Memorial Ride, by Ladendorf Law attorney Dan Ladendorf: Approximately two hundred people – volunteers and participants alike – stood under partly cloudy skies waiting for the formal invocation to kick-off the Lt. Michael...
“Affluenza”: Legitimate Legal Defense or Junk Science?
This week’s national headlines featured a criminal case for the ages at the intersection of law and social science. It also reintroduced America to what has been described as the “All-Consuming Epidemic” for children of extremely wealthy families: “Affluenza.” The...
NY Appellate Court Clears Topless Driver of Negligence
From ABC News earlier this week: An appeals court has cleared a driver in a fatal crash after agreeing she faced an “unforeseen emergency” when a back-seat passenger untied her bikini top. Brittany Lahm of Manhattan briefly took her hands off the wheel when her bikini...