Limitation on fees
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Hematology-Oncology of Indiana, P.C. v. Fruits (2011)
Most recently applied in Indiana Patient's Compensation Fund v. Judy Holcomb, Personal Representative of the Estate of Mable Louise Cochran (August 2014)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.13
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 1. When a plaintiff is represented by an attorney in the prosecution of the plaintiff's claim subject to IC 34-18-8-4, the plaintiff's attorney's fees may not exceed, for an act of malpractice committed:
(1) before July 1, 2017, fifteen percent (15%) of any recovery from the fund; and
(2) after June 30, 2017, thirty-two percent (32%) of any recovery under IC 34-18-14-3.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.