About James Hurt
James ("Jim") Hurt has been an attorney since 2016, licensed in Indiana since 2017, and joined the Ken Nunn Law Office in 2018. Originally from Bloomington, Indiana, Jim graduated from the University of Dayton, where he played baseball for the Dayton Flyers. He has represented hundreds of injured plaintiffs in personal injury litigation, auto accidents, slip and fall cases, and product liability matters. He is admitted to practice before the Indiana Supreme Court, the Indiana Court of Appeals, all trial courts in Indiana, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. Jim was selected to the Rising Stars list from 2020 through 2026.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Ken Nunn Law Office
These results are credited to Ken Nunn Law Office. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Tippecanoe County jury awarded $157 million to the widow of Timothy Simonton, a 42-year-old Indiana man who died in October 2005 after the locking pins on an Ol' Man tree stand failed and left him hanging from a tree during a deer-scouting outing.
A federal jury in Indianapolis awarded $5.6 million to Ronald Hargis and his wife, Amy, after Ronald lost four fingers and underwent a dozen surgeries when his left hand was drawn into the intake rollers of a conveyor at Flutes Inc. The jury found the conveyor's designer, AJ Engineering, liable for leaving the rollers unguarded. The trial court denied the company's post-trial motions in August 2012.
A 17-year-old Indianapolis cyclist was hit and then run over a second time by a Durham School Services bus, leaving him with a fractured ankle and spine, a lacerated spleen and a degloving foot injury. A Marion County jury in October 2012 found total damages of $5.2 million and assigned him 25 percent of the fault, producing a judgment of about $3.9 million. The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed in 2014.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.