Update on Bill Actions April 16, 2025. Final update. The Indiana Governor signed House Enrolled Act 1593, which will take effect July 1, 2025. Watch for another article from us explaining what business lawyers and business owners need to know or do, now that HEA 1593 is law. April 3,…
Update on Bill Actions: This bill was introduced on January 21 and on first reading was assigned to the Committee on Employment, Labor, and Pensions. The deadline for the House to pass the bill and send it to the Senate passed with no further action. Therefore, this bill will not…
If you’ve ever witnessed or participated in the thrilling—but dangerous—act of “cutting donuts,” you may want to think twice. Indiana’s Senate Bill 13 (SB 13) specifically targets this behavior, making it clear that reckless driving in the form of rotational skids is not just risky but now explicitly illegal. …
On March 13, 2024, the Indiana Governor signed Senate Enrolled Act 18, which, among other things, amends the Indiana Business Flexibility Act with the goal of addressing problems that can arise from the death of the sole member of a limited liability company. The following article is based on our…
We recently posted an article discussing Senate Bill 417, which revised Indiana’s statute on noncompete agreements between physicians and their employers, Indiana Code 25-22.5-5.5. A physician in northern Indiana may be the first to attempt to use the statute. The case is Lankford v. Lutheran Medical Group, filed in Allen…
A few months ago, we wrote an article about a bill in the Indiana General Assembly, Senate Bill 7, that would essentially ban noncompete agreements[1] between medical doctors and their employers. The General Assembly enacted the bill and Governor Holcomb signed it, but only after considerable revision. The ban was…
Update: Senate Bill 7 dealing with physician noncompete agreements was signed into law by the governor but in a form that differs significantly from the originally introduced version described in this article. Click here for a discussion of the final version of Senate Bill 7 that goes into effect on…
We previously discussed the Business Entity Harmonization Bill (Senate Enrolled Act 443 or P.L. 118-2017) passed last year by the General Assembly in the following posts: Part I — an introduction. Part II — a discussion of IC 23‑0.5, the Uniform Business Organizations Code. Part III — a discussion of IC 23‑0.6,…
“In that remote and despotic period, when the sovereign king chartered rights and liberties to his subjects – the people – all governmental powers were assumed to be his by divine right. In him were combined the legislative, executive and judicial powers of government. He was the lawgiver, interpreter and…
[March 3, 2018. The General Assembly amended some of the provisions created the Business Entity Harmonization Bill, as discussed in a Postscript to this series.] This is the last in four-part series. The first three parts are here: here, here, and here. This Part IV describes some flaws of Senate Enrolled Act…