Natalie Lyons

Partner at CohenMalad LLP
Indianapolis, IN

About Natalie Lyons

Natalie Lyons focuses on complex and class action matters. Over her career, she has represented consumer and civil rights plaintiffs in federal and state class actions around the country, including two federal civil rights trials that resulted in wins for plaintiffs. She has litigated against the federal Departments of Homeland Security and Education, state correctional agencies, and commercial defendants. Prior to joining CohenMalad LLP, Natalie advocated on behalf of marginalized communities at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, and Equal Rights Advocates. She is a former opera singer and an active member of the Marion County Re-entry Coalition.

Proven verdicts and settlements at CohenMalad LLP

These results are credited to CohenMalad LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A federal jury in Portland awarded $85 million to 12 Oregon Army National Guard soldiers after finding that contractor KBR knowingly exposed them to a carcinogenic chemical at an Iraqi water treatment plant and then lied about the danger.

U.S. District Court, District of Oregon (Portland) · 2012Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

CohenMalad recovered $66.5 million on behalf of 262 patients who alleged that Dr. Arvind Gandhi and Cardiology Associates of Northwest Indiana implanted pacemakers and defibrillators and performed open-heart surgeries that were never medically necessary.

Lake County / Indiana Department of Insurance · 2020Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

CohenMalad partner David Cutshaw co-led a $55 million Indiana Patient's Compensation Fund settlement for 282 patients who underwent unnecessary or damaging sinus surgeries performed by Dr. Mark Weinberger, a Merrillville ENT who later fled the country and was found hiding in the Italian Alps.

Lake Superior Court, Crown Point, Indiana · 2013Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$1.25 millionVerdict

A truck driver lost his right leg below the knee in 2015 after a nurse at Methodist Hospital in Gary placed an IV in his foot without a doctor's order and he was discharged days later. A Lake County jury returned $11 million in November 2022, and the trial court reduced it to the $1.25 million statutory cap under the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act. After the Court of Appeals ordered a new trial, the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the verdict in June 2025.

Lake Superior Court, Gary, Indiana · 2022Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$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.

Education

Golden Gate University School of Law
J.D., 2013
Indiana University
Undergraduate, 1998

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Indiana

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