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Ind. Code § 34-51-4-1

Applicability of chapter to tort actions

Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Emergency Physicians of Indianapolis v. Pettit (1999)

Most recently applied in The Care Group Heart Hospital, LLC v. Roderick J. Sawyer, M.D. (March 2018)

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.47.

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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. This chapter applies to any civil action arising out of tortious conduct.

Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.