About Jeffrey Hammond

Jeff Hammond is a personal injury lawyer who focuses his practice on serious personal injury and wrongful death cases involving construction accidents, premises liability, defective and dangerous products, industrial accidents, state and local governmental liability, structural collapse, scaffolding accidents, crane accidents, and aerial and scissor lift accidents. He completed extensive OSHA safety training and became an OSHA Authorized Construction Safety Trainer, authorized to conduct OSHA 10-hour and 30-hour construction safety courses. Jeff began his career in Chicago courtrooms before returning to Indiana in 2003. He is licensed in both Indiana and Illinois and actively represents clients in both states.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$1 millionVerdict

Charles Sindledecker, a resident with Alzheimer's disease at Greentree at Fort Harrison in Indianapolis, was found unresponsive beside the common-room fireplace on December 10, 2010, with a badly burned right arm. A Marion Superior Court jury found the operator primarily at fault and awarded his estate $1,000,020 in 2015. The Court of Appeals later held the estate was owed attorney fees and sent the case back to set them.

Marion Superior Court, Indianapolis, Indiana · 2015Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
J.D., 1999
Purdue University
Undergraduate, 1995

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Indiana
State Bar of Illinois

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.