About Troy Rivera

Troy K. Rivera has been an attorney since 1999 and joined the Ken Nunn Law Office in 2005, with a primary focus on personal injury law. He is a US Army Military Police K-9 veteran. Before joining the firm, Troy served as a Major Felony Deputy Prosecutor in Marion County with extensive experience prosecuting major felonies, including murders.

Troy leads the State of Indiana for the most reported civil jury trials and has been recognized as the most prolific trial attorney by the Indiana Jury Verdict Reporter. He is admitted to practice before the Indiana Supreme Court, all Circuit and Superior Courts in Indiana, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Troy is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, has been selected to the American Board of Trial Advocates, has served as a speaker for the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, and was selected to the 2026 Indiana Super Lawyers list.

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.

Tippecanoe Superior Court, Lafayette IN · 2009Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$5.6 millionVerdictTop 20 in Indiana · #18

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.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis (No. 1:08-cv-339) · 2012Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$3.9 millionVerdictTop 20 in Indiana · #20

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.

Marion Superior Court, Indianapolis, Indiana · 2012Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$700,000Verdict

A Marion County jury awarded $6 million to the estate of Michael Rex Fergerson, who died after an IndyGo bus driver pulled away from a stop too early and ran over him; the Indiana Supreme Court reinstated the verdict in 2025 after the Court of Appeals had reversed it.

Marion Superior Court, Indianapolis IN · 2023Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

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

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Indiana University Maurer School of Law
J.D., 1999

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