Overview
Jeff is a seasoned litigator with extensive trial experience. As a member of the firm’s General Liability Service Group, Jeff defends clients in a timely and cost effective manner. He provides insurance clients with a good faith basis for investigating and making coverage decisions, primarily first party arson and fraud claims. In third party matters, he handles traditional negligence issues, as well as slip and fall, and premises liability matters.
Prior to private practice, Jeff spent five years as a Lake County and Marion County Deputy Prosecutor handling major felonies and trying more than 100 jury and bench trials. He also assisted in the development of the Marion County Drug Task Force. He draws on this experience today as he assists insurance carriers in fraud investigations. Jeff conducts examinations under oath for insurance carriers throughout Indiana, addressing a wide range of coverage questions including home and auto fires, home and auto theft, mysterious disappearance and other claims issues requiring clarification for coverage.
Outside the office, you can find Jeff with his wife and their two kids.
Membership & Involvement
Member: Indiana Bar Association; Indianapolis Bar Association; National Society of Professional Insurance Investigators; Defense Research Institute (DRI); International Association of Special Investigation Units; Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men
Former President: Indianapolis Civilian Police Merit Board, 1994 - 2001, 2009 - 2010
Honors
- Selected to Indiana Super Lawyers list: 2018, 2022
Resources & Insights
Speaking Engagements
- Happy Public Domain Day!
Happy Public Domain Day!Public Domain Day is one of the lesser known winter holidays celebrated by the elite few – artists of all sorts and copyright attorneys. We either mourn the passing of works into the public domain after decades of keeping them safe and warm or hail the expiration of long-held copyrights in anticipation of new, insightful, adaptive, and creative uses of these works and characters.
- The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin
The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for IvermectinRead Edna McLain’s recent article, “The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin” in IDC Quarterly!
- Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In Effect
Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In EffectKeep up to date with both the federal TCPA requirements and several state-level statutes!
- Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared Unconstitutional
Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared UnconstitutionalOn May 27, 2022, Judge Marcia Maras in the Circuit Court of Cook County issued a memorandum, holding Illinois’s recently enacted prejudgment interest statute unconstitutional, and holding that the legislation violated both the right of trial by jury and the prohibition against special legislation.
Services
Education
Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, J.D., 1986
Wabash College, B.A., 1983
Admissions
- Indiana