Mark A. Scott
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 30 years of experience
Wrongful Death, Brain Injury, Animal Bites, Product Liability, Premises Liability
122 North Main Street, Kokomo, IN 46901
About Mark A. Scott
Practice Areas
- Wrongful Death
- Brain Injury
- Animal Bites
- Product Liability
- Premises Liability
Education
- Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1993J.D.
- Honors: Order of the Barristers
- Honors: Associate Justice, Moot Court Society
- Honors: Jump Scholar
- Honors: American Jurisprudence Awards in Insurance Law and Administrative Law
- Wabash College, 1989A.B., Bachelor of Arts
- Honors: cum laude
- Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford , England, 1988
- Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 1993
Representative Cases
- Bagko Development Co. v. Damitz, 640 N.E.2d 67 (Ind. Ct. App. 1994)
- Green v. Estate of Green, 724 N.E.2d 260 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000)
- Reed Sign Service v. Reid, 755 N.E.2d 690 (Ind. Ct. App. 2001)
- Fulton County Comm'rs v. Miller, 788 N.E.2d 1284 (Ind. Ct. App. 2003)
- McCarty v. Sanders, 805 N.E.2d 894 (Ind. Ct. App. 2004)
- Chamberlain v. Walpole (Amicus Curiae), 822 N.E.2d 959 (Ind. 2005)
- Kocher v. Getz (Amicus Curiae), 824 N.E.2d 671 (Ind. 2005)
- Vasquez v. Phillips (Amicus Ciruae), 843 N.E.2d 61 (Ind. Ct. App. 2006)
- Indiana Patient’s Compensation Fund v. Winkle (Amicus Curiae), 863 N.E.2d 1 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007)
- Butler v. Indiana Dept. of Insurance (Amicus Curiae), 904 N.E.2d 198 (Ind. 2009)
- Stanley v. Walker (Amicus Curiae), 906 N.E.2d 852 (Ind. 2009)
Classes and Seminars
- Adjunct Instructor, Paralegal Studies, Indiana University at Kokomo, 1996 - Present
- Qualified Offers of Settlement: A Two-Edged Sword, ITLA Seminar, 1999 - Present
- Benton v. City of Oakland and its Impact Upon Tort Claims Cases, ITLA Seminar, 2000 - Present
- Making the Dog Hunt: Holding Landlords Responsible for Injuries Cause by Their Tenants’ Dogs, ITLA Seminar, 2001 - Present
- The Right to Make Inquiries During Voir Dire Regarding Potential Jurors’ Relationships with the Defending Insurance Company, ITLA Seminar, 2003 - Present
- Visibility Issues in Motor Vehicle Collision Cases, ITLA Seminar, 2003 - Present
- Time is on My Side: The Temporal Distinction in the Failure to Mitigate Damages Defense, ITLA Seminar, 2004 - Present
- Recent Developments in Tort Law, ICLEF Indiana Law Update Seminar, 2004 - 2008
- Tort Law Update, ITLA Seminar, 2004 - 2009
- Defending Plaintiff’s Expert Against Challenges Under Indiana Evidence Rule 702, ICLEF Seminar, 2005 - Present
- Relationship of the Medical Malpractice Act and the Wrongful Death Act, ITLA Seminar, 2005 - Present
- The Top Five in 2005: Five Cases That Will Change Your Practice, ITLA Seminar, 2006 - Present
- Preliminary Procedural Considerations and Recent Case Law Developments in the Law of Medical Malpractice, ICLEF Seminar, 2006 - Present
- The Inadmissibility of Collateral Source Write-Offs or Discounts, Verdict, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2007 - Present
- Wrongful Death Law in Indiana, ICLEF Seminar, 2010 - Present
- Harm Without Recourse: An Analysis of Taele v. State Farm, ITLA Seminar, 2011
- The Best Case I Ever Lost, ITLA Seminar, 2013
- Applied Professionalism, ITLA Seminar, 2013
- Mediation and Settlement, ITLA Seminar, 2015
- Advanced Civil Mediation, ITLA Seminar, 2017 - Present
- Advanced Civil Mediation, ITLA Seminar, 2019 - Present
- Maximizing Damages by Using Surgical Videos at Trial, ITLA Seminar, 2019 - Present
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Indiana, 1993
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 1993
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana, 1993
Other Affiliations
- Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, 2012 - 2013 (President)
- Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, 2003 - Present (Board of Directors)
- Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, 2004 - 2014 (Executive Committee)
- Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, 2005 - 2011 (Chair, Amicus Curiae Committee)
- Howard County Bar Association, 1997 - Present (President)
- American Association for Justice
Fees
- Offers Free Initial Consultation
Office Info
Nearby Lawyers
- Wrongful Death
- Brain Injury
- Animal Bites
- Product Liability
- 39.4 miles away
- 46.9 miles away
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