Attorney disbarred for writing book about client
In 2010, Joseph Stork Smith authored a book purporting to be a true autobiographical account of his 20-year relationship with a former client who was active in politics.
In 2010, Joseph Stork Smith authored a book purporting to be a true autobiographical account of his 20-year relationship with a former client who was active in politics.
Citizens Energy Group is leading the opposition to a gas station planned for 146th Street and River Road on the edge of Carmel, saying it is too close to a major source of central Indiana’s drinking water.
Eli Lilly and Co. said it will test its experimental Alzheimer’s drug in patients with early stages of the disease after the medicine failed to slow the condition in more advanced patients. According to Bloomberg News, the trial of 2,100 patients, called Expedition III, will measure patients’ ability to do daily tasks like cooking or driving, and to remember words after a delay. Lilly is pushing ahead with the drug, called solanezumab, as potentially the first medicine to demonstrate that it treats Alzheimer’s causes rather than just the symptoms. The drug targets the buildup of plaque known as beta amyloid in the brain that’s thought to be a basis of Alzheimer’s. The trial should take about 22 months to complete. In earlier clinical trials, solanezumab failed to show overall effectiveness, but did appear to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s in patients with mild forms of the disease. Lilly’s new trial will use new tests for biological signs of the disease to help enroll early-stage patients and to see whether their illness is advancing. More than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, and the number is expected to surge to as many as 16 million by 2050 as the population ages, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. No drugs on the market have been shown to slow the disease. The market for medicines may be worth $20 billion annually, Deutsche Bank estimated last year. Merck & Co., Novartis AG, Roche AG and other large drugmakers are pursuing treatments.
San Diego-based American Specialty Health Inc., a wellness-program provider, plans to open an office in Carmel by March, employing at least 300 in “an operations, customer service and redundancy center.” Sources familiar with the situation said Carmel may also become the company’s corporate headquarters. Founded in 1987 in CEO George DeVries’ extra bedroom, ASH operates 13 subsidiaries that offer health-and-wellness services to employer groups, health plans and insurance companies nationwide. Its Healthyroads unit, for example, provides a Silver&Fit “healthy aging” program to Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. ASH and other players in the wellness industry are expected to keep growing thanks to provisions in the 2010 Affordable Care Act that create incentives to promote health-management programs. Privately held ASH reported revenue of $221 million last year, up 64 percent from 2009, when the company first appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of the country’s fastest-growing businesses. DeVries is a graduate of Culver Academies in northern Indiana and serves on its board. ASH already has a nine-person office on 96th Street in Indianapolis, and Freeman said those employees eventually will move to Carmel.
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. will pay $1.7 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to resolve allegations it left the information of more than 612,000 members available online because of inadequate safeguards. According to the Associated Press, between Oct. 23, 2009, and March 7, 2010, security weaknesses in an online application database left the information of 612,402 people accessible to unauthorized users. That information included names, birthdates, addresses, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers, and health data. WellPoint, the nation’s second-largest health insurer, reported the breach to the Health and Human Services Department. The agency then started an investigation, saying WellPoint's actions may have violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA.
Catarmaran Corp., a pharmacy benefits manager, plans to hire 205 people within two years at a hub it's building in Jeffersonville, according to the Associated Press. The Illinois-based company has committed to hiring 104 full-time, permanent employees next year and a total of 205 by 2015. The jobs paying an average of nearly $24 per hour will include pharmacists, technicians, call-center employees and others.
-Kid Glove Service Inc. leased 563,820 square feet of industrial space at 2525 N. Shadeland Ave. The tenant was represented by Stan Elser of Lee & Associates. The landlord, 2525 Shadeland LLC, was represented by Todd Vannatta of Cassidy Turley.
-Building Bridges Early Learning Center leased 15,000 square feet at Madison on the Mall, 1211 N. Madison Ave., Greenwood. The landlord, Murnel Property LLC, was represented by Tracey Holtzman of Midland Atlantic Properties. The tenant represented itself.
-R&S Design Gallery leased 9,460 square feet of industrial space at 8730 8932 Corporation Drive. The tenant was represented by Cameron Kucic of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Westminster Funds, was represented by Todd Vannatta of Cassidy Turley.
-On Time Delivery Inc. leased 7,200 square feet of industrial space at 5058 5148 W. 79th St. The tenant was represented by J.D. Graves of CBRE. The landlord, Iron Point Titan Asset Management LLC, was represented by Bryan Poynter of Cassidy Turley.
-Infodynamics leased 5,460 square feet of industrial space at 9855 Crosspoint Blvd. The tenant was represented by Bill Ehret of Summit Realty Group. The landlord, Clarion Partners, was represented by Fritz Kauffman and Bryan Poynter of Cassidy Turley.
-Heartland Fuel LLC leased 3,600 square feet of industrial space at 5333 5367 W. 86th St. The landlord, Iron Point Titan Asset Management LLC, was represented by Bryan Poynter of Cassidy Turley. The tenant represented itself.
-RSI Solutions Inc. leased 2,880 square feet of industrial space at 1761 N. Sherman Drive. The landlord, Brookside Industrial Park LLC, was represented by Fritz Kauffman and Michael Weishaar of Cassidy Turley. The tenant represented itself.
-Window Universe leased 2,700 square feet of industrial space at 5058 5148 W. 79th St. The tenant was represented by Bobbi Charters of RE/Max Lafayette Group. The landlord, Iron Point Titan Asset Management LLC, was represented by Bryan Poynter of Cassidy Turley.
-Krause Dental leased 2,674 square feet at Carey Shops, 3247 E. State Road 32, Westfield. The tenant was represented by Matt Jackson of Jackson IG. The landlord, H.W. Carey LLC, was represented by Dean Almas of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate.
-Urban Furniture Discounters Mattress Store leased 2,400 square feet at Castleton Marketplace, 8383 Castleton Corner Drive. The landlord, Castleton Square Marketplace LLC, was represented by Jeff Hubley of Midland Atlantic Properties. The tenant represented itself.
-Wynright Corporation leased 2,400 square feet of industrial space at 5603 W. Raymond St. The tenant was represented by Eve Shirley of Carmen Commercial Real Estate Services. The landlord, Iron Point Titan Asset Management LLC, was represented by Bryan Poynter of Cassidy Turley.
-The Joint leased 2,159 square feet at Hamilton Town Center, Noblesville. The tenant was represented by Tracey Holtzman of Midland Atlantic Properties. The landlord, Hamilton Town Center LLC, was represented by Lorene Wright of Simon Property Group.
-Fanfare Tickets leased 2,154 square feet at 116th Street Centre, 33 E. 116th St., Fishers. The landlord, TCP Guilford LLC, was represented by Keith Fried of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The tenant represented itself.
-Great Fermentations leased 1,800 square feet at Avon Crossing, 7900 E. U.S. 36, Avon. The landlord, Cranfill Development Corp., was represented by Michael Cranfill of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The tenant represented itself.
-Century Business Products leased 1,800 square feet of industrial space at 8930 Bash St. The landlord, Westminster Funds, was represented by Todd Vannatta of Cassidy Turley. The tenant represented itself.
-Next Level Nutrition leased 1,000 square feet at Cool Creek Commons, 2456 E. 146th St., Carmel. The tenant was represented by Marilyn Farley of ReMax Select Inc. The landlord, Westfield One LLC, was represented by Andrew Hasbrook of Kite Realty Group.
-The Waxing Spot leased 884 square feet at 116th Street Centre, 33 E. 116th St., Fishers. The landlord, TCP Guilford LLC, was represented by Keith Fried of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The tenant represented itself.
American Specialty Health has lined up office space along North Meridian Street. The company may establish Carmel as its new headquarters.
A Carmel-based power-grid operator has agreed to pay $90,500 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit involving an employee who allegedly suffered from postpartum depression.
A European-style bakery is planned for a historic bank building in downtown Westfield. Plus: a Carmel startup’s single-serving meal kits and familiar names in Zionsville.
The former owners of Broad Ripple’s Red Room nightclub are opening a Noblesville sports bar. Nemo’s leads a retail roundup that also includes five new eateries in Fishers.
The $2 billion global security company slated to take shape in Carmel later this year has added a major piece to its executive puzzle: CEO David D. Petratis.
The three buildings near I-465 and North Meridian Street that make up Meridian Corporate Plaza were lost by Lauth Investment Properties LLC in its bankruptcy reorganization.
Ehren Bingaman, executive director of the Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority, will join architecture and engineering firm HNTB Indiana. He was one of the principal supporters of the mass-transit plan that stalled in the Statehouse this year.
A Louisville man charged in connection with the murder of a teenager from Carmel is expected to plead guilty Monday afternoon. Gregory O’Bryan faces charges of murder, sodomy, corpse abuse and evidence tampering in the October 2010 death of Andrew Compton, 18, who was a first-year culinary student at Sullivan University in Louisville. O’Bryan told investigators the teen died after the two had sex. Authorities searched an Indiana landfill but didn’t find the teen’s body.
Local car dealers are investing in projects ranging from new facilities to showroom renovations as the economy improves and the auto industry rebounds from a crippling slump in sales.
A leading opponent of the plan for regional mass transit is floating an alternative that calls for widening north-south commuter corridors like Martin Luther King Jr. Street, Capitol Avenue and College Avenue.
The final days of June made me wonder if we’re ever going to get past race.
Irish industrial conglomerate Ingersoll-Rand Plc is poised to spin off its security operations late this year into Allegion—which will have its North American headquarters and most of its executive team in Carmel.
A Carmel company that markets a device which plugs into a car’s diagnostic port to monitor the vehicle's performance has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against a better-known competitor.
Allegient LLC and subcontracted IUPUI informatics experts wrote algorithms that go beyond word searches to look for “causality”—relationships between words suggesting one thing caused another.
One of the largest private firms in Indiana, Moorehead Communications will occupy a 47,000-square-foot building that it acquired earlier this year. The project will run about $5 million.