Joseph A. Zumpano, III

Secured defense judgment in favor of an auto dealership.

Defense verdict secured in favor of a chiropractor.

Defended restaurant against smail claims action.

Defended dentist office against claims that they created substandard dentures.

Obtained affirmance by the Indiana Supreme Court granting a dismissal of their client, a remediation contractor in Indianapolis. The contractor disposed of a 12-tray food-grade dehydrator–the subject of a product liability claims against the manufacturer which was the primary culprit in burning down a house on Halloween in 2019. The Indiana Supreme Court found that the circumstances did not implicate any duty on the remediation company to preserve the dehydrator. This was the first time that the Indiana Supreme Court has ever addressed whether third-party spoliation is a viable claim in Indiana. 

Motion to dismiss granted in favor of a county hospital and jail when plaintiff alleged that they lost property when being transferred from the jail to the hospital.