About Lauren Hardesty

Lauren focuses her practice on civil litigation, insurance defense litigation, and estate planning. She often provides insurance coverage opinions and engages in litigation to defend clients to the fullest extent of the law. She practices throughout the entire State of Indiana, and she has also represented clients before the Indiana Court of Appeals. Her practice areas include civil litigation, insurance defense, personal injury, first and third-party insurance litigation, estate planning and probate. Lauren is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, and was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2019 to 2021.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Hume Smith Geddes Green & Simmons, LLP

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On October 18, 2020 Ryann Early, drunk and doing about 79 mph in a 40 zone, crossed into oncoming traffic on Albert S. White Drive in Whitestown and hit Sherry Schnee head-on. She broke her neck and is quadriplegic. He went to prison. On January 11, 2024 a Boone County jury awarded her $84,000,000 and her husband $75,000,000. Early is an individual with no insurer identified, and his own lawyer said afterward he wished there were actual dollars behind the number.

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

Practice areas

Education

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
J.D.
Purdue University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Indiana

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