The cash-strapped, half-vacant City Market is playing legal hardball with five current or former tenants that are behind
on rent, a move that’s led to the imminent eviction of Constantino’s Market Place.
A spate of office openings and an acquisition have helped catapult Barnes & Thornburg LLP into the upper echelon of the nation’s
largest law firms, at a time when the slumbering economy has forced most big firms to cut staff.
Roderick Morgan of the Indianapolis-based firm of Bingham McHale was named president of the group at its annual meeting.
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay Utah $24 million to settle a lawsuit claiming the company improperly marketed the antipsychotic
drug Zyprexa.
The Flaherty & Collins project—dubbed 210 Trade—would have been the tallest residential building in the Carolinas, with more floors
than any building in the region except the Charlotte headquarters of Bank of America Corp.
Ricker Oil’s Oct. 22 suit claims British petroleum giant BP is charging unjustified royalty fees while delivering no boost
from its national advertising, its proprietary IT system or its bulk purchase pricing.
Long tracking the emergence of information technology firms involved in the health and life sciences sector, the state’s
IT trade group, TechPoint, is undergoing a mitosis of sorts to help fuel the trend. It has created Advancing
Life Science & Health Care Information Technology, or ALHIT, which will focus on growing this subset of the IT realm.
A former assistant manager of a Fifth Third Bank branch in Indianapolis has pleaded guilty to setting fire to the bank vault
in an attempt to cover his thefts.
A lawyer says Irving Materials Inc. has agreed to pay $29 million to settle a class-action antitrust lawsuit alleging it and
six other companies conspired to fix the price of ready-mixed concrete.
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster said Friday that the state has reached a $45 million settlement with drug maker
Eli Lilly and Co. over the company’s marketing of an anti-psychotic drug.
Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham has treated Ohio-based Fair Finance Co. almost like a personal bank since buying it seven
years ago, and now he, his partners and related firms owe it more than $168 million, records show.
With its expansion last month into the historic Eden-Talbott House at 1336 N. Delaware St., the local environmental law firm
Plews Shadley Racher & Braun now owns and occupies three historic homes and a 1950s-era office building in the same block.
Two former real estate investors have pleaded guilty to federal charges that they set up straw deals to obtain inflated
mortgages on more than 100 Indianapolis houses.
An Indiana State Excise Police initiative that uses underage customers to catch retailers selling alcohol to people under
age 21 netted more than 370 violations across Indiana in only three months.
The Mooresville-based company that owns John Dillinger’s publicity rights has made an “offer” of sorts
that the Godfather can’t refuse.
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to settle the State of South Carolina’s lawsuit that claimed Lilly improperly marketed the antipsychotic
drug Zyprexa, according to Bloomberg News.
An Indiana judge has delayed until March the trial on securities fraud charges of a former money manager who tried to fake
his own death by jumping from a small plane before it crashed in Florida.
An administrative complaint filed today by the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office alleges Stifel Nicolaus failed to disclose
risks associated with the sale of auction-rate securities to 141 Hoosiers who invested $54.9 million.
Charter Homes owner Jerry J. Jaquess has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of
$825,000 for his role in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme.
A London-based hedge fund has sued Brightpoint Inc. over a $10 million loan it alleges the Indianapolis-based cell phone distributor
fraudulently brokered in anticipation of an acquisition in France that never materialized.
