Many clients think that it advances their interests to have a “fire-breathing” lawyer, one who takes no prisoners and utilizes a “scorched earth” policy when representing them in litigation. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth....
Robert F. Parker, a partner in the firm’s Merrillville office, recently obtained a jury verdict for the defendant in a medical malpractice trial in Crown Point, Indiana. The case was brought by the family of a 74 year old patient of the...
BCC attorneys Bob Parker and Dan Gioia successfully defended a local physician in a case that is the first of its kind in the nation, interpreting the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”). HIPAA is a federal...
Historically, about 5% of all non-obstetrical malpractice claims arising out of surgery involve retained foreign bodies. A 2009 report in the Journal of Robotic surgery states that 1 in 1,500 open abdominal or chest procedures results in a...
Recently, NWI Times Sports Medicine Columnist John Doherty drew on the expertise of BCC’s Litigation Practice Group Leader, Bob Parker, in writing an article on the relationship between the recent suicide of Junior Seau, and the many lawsuits...
Burke Costanza & Carberry partner Robert F. Parker has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America. The induction ceremony at which Bob became a Fellow took place recently...
The long term health risk presented by concussions in young athletes is a hot topic in high school sports. Most sports have enacted rules changes to insure that student athletes are promptly removed from play if they exhibit concussion-like...
Indiana’s Medical Malpractice Act, which currently “caps” a plaintiff’s total recovery at $1.25 million for an injury or death caused by an act of medical malpractice, has been challenged on both federal and state constitutional grounds...
In a trilogy of decisions announced June 29, 2011, the Indiana Supreme Court clarified and harmonized Indiana’s three laws that allow recovery for the wrongful death of a person, holding that a successful plaintiff can recover attorney fees...
John P. Bushemi won a unanimous jury verdict in favor of the City of Hobart Police Department in a wrongful death lawsuit. The jury determined that a Hobart patrol officer was not at fault for the death of an innocent motorist which occurred...