Sec. 18. "Malpractice" means a tort or breach of contract based on health care or professional services that were provided, or that should have been provided, by a health care provider, to a patient.
Ind. Code § 34-18-2-18
"Malpractice"
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Harris v. Raymond (1999)
Most recently applied in Amy K. Metz, as Mother and Next Friend of Kiara K. Metz, an incapacitated minor v. Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center-Plymouth Campus, Inc. (mem. dec.) (November 2018)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.13.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.