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About Nicholas C. Deets
Nicholas C. Deets is a trial attorney and Partner at Hovde Dassow + Deets, focusing his career exclusively on representing plaintiffs in personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and product liability litigation. With over 80 jury trials taken to verdict, Nick is regarded as one of Indiana's most experienced trial lawyers. He has argued cases before both state and federal courts, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a key role in landmark decisions including Cosme v. Erie Insurance (2024), which modified Indiana's standard on directed verdicts, and Kosarko v. Padula (2012).
He is a past President of the American Board of Trial Advocates, Indiana Chapter, and holds fellowships in the American College of Trial Lawyers, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Indiana College of Trial Lawyers, and Litigation Counsel of America. He was named Best Lawyers 'Lawyer of the Year' for Medical Malpractice (Plaintiffs) in 2020 and 2026, for Personal Injury Litigation (Plaintiffs) in 2022, and for Mass Tort Litigation (Plaintiffs) in 2017. He received the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association's Trial Lawyer of the Year award in 2010. He graduated cum laude from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1993 and clerked for the Honorable Michael S. Kanne of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Morgan County jury awarded $1,250,075 to a plumbing contractor who suffered severe burns after a Carmel High School maintenance employee ignited a pool heater's pilot light over the contractor's explicit objection, triggering a gas explosion that blew the roof off the building.
A jury found an Indiana obstetrician liable for a permanent brachial plexus injury to a newborn's left arm during a forceps delivery in 1989. The jury awarded $400,000. The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed in May 2001, rejecting challenges to jury instructions, discovery rulings, evidence and the causation finding.
A 13-year-old boy was electrocuted and killed while swimming at a home leased in a mobile home park in Indiana in July 2010. After a three-day trial, a jury found his parents' total damages were $3,000,000 and put 5 percent of the fault on the park, producing a $150,000 verdict. The trial court then added attorney's fees and litigation expenses under Indiana's Child Wrongful Death Statute, and the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed that award in 2017.
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