About Theodore Blanford

Ted is gearing down for retirement. During the past 35 years he had a diverse practice representing individuals, small businesses, and insurance companies in legal matters throughout the State and Federal courts in Indiana. He has handled a wide range of insurance defense cases in the areas of personal injury, insurance coverage and defense, environmental law and construction.

Ted is a member of Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana and chaired the Litigation Section in years past. He has presented CLE lectures on wrongful death, deposition tactics as well as trial tactics. He has over 50 jury trials defending clients in wrongful death cases, auto accident, product liability, slip and fall, and uninsured/underinsured coverages.

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.

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