Applicability of chapter
Applied in 36 court decisions — leading case Cahoon v. Cummings (2000)
Most recently applied in Northern Indiana Public Service Company v. Josh's Lawn & Snow, LLC (August 2019)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.47.
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. (a) This chapter governs any action based on fault that is brought to recover damages for injury or death to a person or harm to property, except as provided in subsection (b).
(b) This chapter does not apply to an action:
(1) brought against a qualified health care provider under IC 16-9.5 (before its repeal), IC 27-12 (before its repeal), or IC 34-18 for medical malpractice; or
(2) that accrued before January 1, 1985.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.