Wagner Reese, LLP

A Richmond obstetrician ordered a contraction stress test instead of the recommended non-stress evaluation as a 34-week fetus showed distress, and a Wayne County jury held him responsible for the baby's death.

The mother of M. Shane Satterfield, 38, recovered $640,000 from Decatur County's liability insurer after he died of untreated alcohol withdrawal while serving a drunk-driving sentence at the county jail.

Roughly two dozen women sued after a Clark County jail officer sold cell keys to male detainees, and the county's insurer paid $328,000 to settle the federal suits that Wagner Reese helped bring.

Four former North Central High School students settled their federal suit against the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township for $245,000 after alleging the district ignored years of warnings about a drama teacher's grooming, with Wagner Reese's Jeff Gibson representing the plaintiffs.

Indianapolis paid $150,000 in 2013 to settle the federal civil rights suit of Brandon Johnson, a 15-year-old beaten by IMPD officers during his younger brother's 2010 arrest, with Stephen Wagner of Wagner Reese representing him.