Two stories in the Indiananpolis Star today on yesterday's rulings:
This brief story begins: "The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that employers can't be held liable if they are negligent and give out misleading information when providing job references." The case, Mark R. Passmore v. Multi-Management Services (6/29/04 IndSCt) is among those summarized yesterday (scroll down).
"Child limit on medical-malpractice suits ended" is the headline to this story. Some quotes:
The Indiana Court of Appeals has struck down a section of the state's medical-malpractice law that limited when a lawsuit could be filed on behalf of a child injured in a medical procedure.The case, Marsha Ledbetter v. Robert Hunter, et al. (6/29/04 IndCtApp) is among those summarized yesterday (scroll down). Posted by Marcia Oddi at June 30, 2004 07:31 AMIn a unanimous ruling Tuesday, a three-judge panel said the part of Indiana's Medical Malpractice Act that applies to the statute of limitations for children is unconstitutional.
Current law requires that a medical-malpractice claim must be filed within two years, except for children younger than age 6, who have until their eighth birthday to file suit. In other legal actions, children have until age 20 -- or two years after they become an adult -- to file a lawsuit. * * *
The appellate judges agreed that the law creates two different standards and is thus unconstitutional. * * *
In 1999, the Indiana high court struck down another part of the malpractice law -- also dealing with the statute of limitations. The court said Hoosiers aren't bound by the two-year statute of limitations if they don't know they've been hurt by malpractice.