Service on the Indianapolis Bar Association Board of Directors is an invaluable opportunity to play a role in the future of the legal community.

Meet members of the Insurance Coverage Section with the Take Ten Q&A Series!

On May 5, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas denied Defendant Factory Mutual Insurance Company’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and allowing Cinemark Holdings, Inc.’s, suit for business losses related to COVID-19 to continue.  Cinemark is a nationwide theater chain with approximately 345 theaters in the US and over 500 locations worldwide that closed in the wake of the pandemic, remaining shuttered for much of the summer of 2020.

A selection committee acting on behalf of the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Foundation has announced the selection of Chief Judge Tanya Walton Pratt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana as a recipient of the IndyBar's prestigious Luminary Award of Excellence. Chief Judge Pratt will be honored at the 2021 IndyBar Bench Bar Conference in Louisville, Kentucky on June 19.

While working at home, for albeit a relatively short period of time, I realized that the health of my professional working relationships was suffering. Perhaps you are still working from home. Perhaps you are still primarily attending meetings virtually. Perhaps you feel the same way.

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Under the dynamic leadership of IndyBar President Jimmie McMillian, we're celebrating Juneteenth at Bench Bar to bring awareness to our members about this significant piece of history. More importantly, the Juneteenth workshop session will highlight and recognize the experiences and significant contributions that Black attorneys have made to our legal community.

When racial disparity and inequality came to a head in Summer 2020, it quickly became obvious that the association had a responsibility to respond and to act on the many long-standing contributing structural issues present not only throughout the country but here at home in the Indianapolis community as well.

In Gladstone v. West Bend Mut. Ins. Co., the Indiana Court of Appeals held that a trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing a defendant underinsured motorist carrier to introduce the plaintiff’s medical bills even though the plaintiff was only seeking damages for pain and suffering.

As coverage attorneys, much of the past year has been spent trying to track the explosion of litigation relating to COVID-19 claims. My own effort to keep up was made much easier by my discovery of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Covid Coverage Litigation Tracker.

Meet members of the Insurance Coverage Section with the Take Ten Q&A Series!