Lane C. Siesky
Evansville Personal Injury Attorney
Lane C. Siesky is an Evansville, Indiana personal injury attorney and founder of Siesky Law Firm, PC. For more than 25 years, Lane has represented individuals and families in significant personal injury and wrongful death cases.
Today, his practice is focused on helping people who have suffered serious injuries or lost a family member because of the negligence of another person, company, or commercial driver.
Lane represents clients in cases involving:
– Serious and catastrophic personal injuries
– Commercial truck and semi-truck accidents
– Car and other motor vehicle accidents
– Wrongful death
– Motorcycle and pedestrian accidents
– Dangerous and defective products
– Other complex personal injury claims
Siesky Law is based in Evansville and represents injured people and families throughout Southern Indiana and in other jurisdictions when appropriate.
Experience That Matters in Serious Injury Cases
Not every personal injury case requires the same lawyer or the same approach.
Cases involving catastrophic injuries, commercial trucks, wrongful death, corporations, and substantial insurance coverage can require extensive investigation, expert witnesses, sophisticated litigation strategy, and the financial ability and willingness to pursue the case properly.
Lane has experience handling complex litigation in state and federal courts, including jury trials, bench trials, arbitrations, mediations, multidistrict litigation, mass tort litigation, and appellate matters.
His legal career has also given him experience on both sides of insurance disputes. Earlier in his career, Lane represented insurance companies and their insureds. That experience provides valuable insight into how insurers evaluate, defend, and attempt to minimize significant injury claims.
Today, that experience is used exclusively to help injured people and their families.
Significant Personal Injury Results
Lane and Siesky Law have obtained substantial recoveries for injured clients and families, including seven-figure results in serious personal injury and wrongful death cases.
Representative results include:
$2.6 Million — Burn Injury
Recovery for a client who suffered serious burn injuries.
$2.46 Million — Wrongful Death
Recovery arising from a wrongful death claim.
$2 Million — Pedestrian Accident
Recovery for a seriously injured pedestrian.
$1.81 Million — Commercial Semi-Truck Collision
Recovery arising from a collision involving a commercial truck.
$1 Million — Motor Vehicle Accident
Recovery for injuries resulting from a motor vehicle collision.
Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee or predict the outcome of any future case.
Commercial Truck Accident Experience
Commercial truck crashes are different from ordinary automobile accidents.
A serious trucking case can involve a commercial driver, motor carrier, trailer owner, maintenance company, shipper, freight broker, or other businesses. Important evidence can include electronic logging device data, driver qualification files, vehicle inspection and maintenance records, electronic control module data, onboard cameras, dispatch communications, cellular records, and federal motor-carrier safety records.
Lane has experience representing people injured in commercial vehicle collisions and is a member of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.
Siesky Law investigates serious truck accidents with the understanding that critical electronic and physical evidence can disappear if it is not identified and preserved promptly.
Wrongful Death and Catastrophic Injury
Some cases involve far more than reimbursement of medical bills.
A catastrophic injury can permanently affect a person’s ability to work, care for themselves, participate in family life, or live independently. These cases may require evaluation of future medical treatment, rehabilitation, life-care needs, lost earning capacity, permanent impairment, and the effect of an injury over an individual’s lifetime.
Wrongful death cases present their own legal and human challenges. Lane represents families dealing with the financial and personal consequences of losing someone because of another party’s negligence.
Siesky Law has obtained multimillion-dollar recoveries in both catastrophic injury and wrongful death matters.
A Different Kind of Personal Injury Firm
Siesky Law is intentionally different from the high-volume personal injury model.
The firm’s goal is not to handle the largest possible number of cases. It is to identify cases where the firm can make a meaningful difference and give those clients the attention their cases deserve.
Lane remains personally involved in the firm’s most significant cases and works with the firm’s attorneys and staff to develop the evidence, damages, and strategy necessary to pursue each client’s claim.
Clients should know who is handling their case, understand what is happening, and be able to communicate with the people responsible for representing them.
That philosophy reflects the firm’s guiding principle:
We Are Here to Help.
Professional Recognition and Legal Experience
Lane has practiced law since the late 1990s and has been recognized by fellow lawyers and independent legal organizations during his career.
His professional background includes:
– AV Preeminent peer-review recognition
– Selection to Indiana Super Lawyers
– Membership in the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys
– Membership in the American Association for Justice
– Experience in Indiana state and federal courts
– Admission to practice before federal appellate courts
– Admission to practice before the United States Supreme Court
– Experience with reported appellate decisions
– Jury and bench trial experience
– Arbitration and mediation experience
– Complex and multidistrict litigation experience
Lane’s practice has included litigation before Indiana trial and appellate courts and federal courts, including matters before the United States Courts of Appeals.
From Insurance Defense to Representing Injured People
Lane’s early experience representing insurers and defendants continues to influence the way he evaluates personal injury cases.
Insurance companies analyze risk. They investigate liability, evaluate medical evidence, scrutinize damages, assess witnesses, hire experts, and determine what they believe a case is worth.
Understanding that process can be valuable when representing the person on the other side. Lane ultimately chose to devote his practice to representing injured people rather than insurance companies. That remains the mission of Siesky Law today. Deep Roots in Evansville and Southern Indiana
Lane lives and practices in the Evansville community, and Siesky Law is an Evansville-based law firm.
The firm represents people throughout Evansville and Southern Indiana, including individuals injured in crashes on I-69, I-64, U.S. 41 and other heavily traveled roads and highways throughout the region.
Siesky Law also handles appropriate cases involving injuries occurring outside Southern Indiana when the firm’s experience and resources are a good fit for the client.
Choosing a Personal Injury Attorney
People facing a serious injury or wrongful death case should feel comfortable asking potential attorneys difficult questions:
Who will actually handle my case?
What experience does the attorney have with cases like mine?
Has the attorney handled significant injury cases?
Does the lawyer have litigation and trial experience?
Does the firm understand the medical and financial consequences of catastrophic injuries?
Does the firm have the resources to properly investigate and pursue the case?
Will I be treated as an individual or as another case number?
Those are questions Siesky Law welcomes.
Talk With Lane Siesky
If you or a family member has suffered a serious injury or wrongful death because of someone else’s negligence, Siesky Law can evaluate the circumstances and help you understand your options.
The initial consultation is free, and personal injury cases are generally handled on a contingency-fee basis, meaning attorney fees are not owed unless a recovery is obtained, subject to the terms of the representation agreement.
Siesky Law Firm, PC
Evansville, Indiana
We Are Here to Help.
Reported Decisions
- U.S. ex rel Main vs. Oakland City University, 426 F.3d 914 (7th Circ. 2005)
- Peters vs. Forster, 804 N.E.2d 736 (Ind. 2004)
- Baker vs. Fenneman & Brown Properties, LLC, 793 N.E.2d 1203 (Ind.App. 2003)
- Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co. vs. Ackerman, 56 N.E.3d 1209 (Ind.App.2016)
Speaking
2006 Electronic Discovery
2007 Federal Court Mediation
2007 Qui Tam (Whistleblower) cases 101
2007 Electronic Discovery for Paralegals;
2007 Kentucky State Fair Mock Trials
2008 Document Retention and Destruction; 2008 Ethics in the Electronic Age
2009 Technology at Trial
2010 The False Claims Act, a Case Study
2011 Small Law Office Technology
2011 Electronic Discovery;
2011 Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
2012 Anatomy of a Jury Trial (Mock Trial in U.S. District Court)
2013 What Lawyers Wish Judges Knew
2014 Document Retention and Destruction
2014 Legality of Electronic Monitoring
2014 The Secret Dangers of Social Media
2015 Social Security Hearings
2015 E-discovery and Social Media
2016 Hot Topics Ethics of Online Reviews
2017 Advanced Deposition Strategies and Technologies
2017 Issues Surrounding An Employee Blowing the Whistle
2018 Employment Law Update
2019 Dangers of Social Media
2020 Cyber Security
2022 Federal Jury Trial Simulation (U.S. District Court)
Daniel B. Gearhart
Dan obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in 1997. After working as a financial planner, Dan went on to obtain his law degree from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 2003, earning cum laude honors. After being admitted to the Indiana State Bar, Dan practiced law at two insurance defense firms where he obtained extensive experience in employment law, worker’s compensation, medical malpractice, civil litigation, and family law.
Bar Admissions
- Indiana State Bar
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana
Professional Associations
- Indiana State Bar Association
- Indianapolis Bar Association
Douglas K. Briody
Doug Briody joined the Siesky Law Firm, PC family in early 2016, when he entered into an Of Counsel relationship with the firm, on a part-time basis. Doug brings a wealth of complex civil litigation experience and legal research and writing skills to our team.
When not at Siesky Law Firm, PC, he continues to maintain, as his primary legal venture, a solo practice with the LAW OFFICE OF DOUG BRIODY. There, he helps entrepreneurs, other individuals, and their families in matters involving business law; wills, trusts, estate and Medicaid planning, and probate administration; commercial and civil litigation; non-profit organizations; and governmental and administrative law.
Prior to starting his own practice in 2008, Doug worked for eight years with a high-end personal injury firm in Evansville, litigating medical malpractice and other catastrophic injury and death cases almost exclusively. From 1994 to 2000, he was associated with one of the city’s largest law firms, handling mainly complex civil litigation matter, but also developing a broad background as a generalist in the law.
Bar Admissions
- Indiana Supreme Court
- United States District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Indiana
- United States Courts of Appeal for the Third, Seventh, and (formerly) Eleventh Circuits
- Additional trial, appellate, and ADR experience in Kentucky, Florida, and Pennsylvania courts
Reported Cases include:
Buse v. Kuechenberg, 325 F.3d 1249 (11th Cir. 2003); Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. IKON Office Solutions, Inc., 295 F.3d 680 (7th Cir. 2002); Richardson v. National City Bank of Evansville, 141 F.3d 1228 (7th Cir. 1998) (on brief); Kempf Contracting & Design, Inc. v. Holland-Tucker, 892 N.E.2d 672 (Ind. Ct. App. 2008); Patient’s Compensation Fund v. Hicklin, 823 N.E.2d 705 (Ind. Ct. App. 2005); Gates v. Town of Chandler, Water Dep’t, 720 N.E.2d 1192 (Ind. Ct. App. 1999), aff’d on reh’g, 725 N.E.2d 117 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000); Warrick County Commissioners v. Warrick County Council, 706 N.E.2d 579 (Ind. Ct. App. 1999); Buse v. Vanguard Group of Investment Companies, No. 91-3560, 1998 WL 54397 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 30, 1998).
Roderick W. Clutter, Jr
Rod received his law degree from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1978. After serving as an attorney in the United States Air Force, Rod began his career as a personal injury lawyer here in Evansville in 1985.
Rod has extensive civil trial experience and has worked both as an insurance defense attorney as well as a representative for injured claimants. Rod has also been a civil mediator since 2003 and has successfully resolved numerous personal injury cases totaling millions of dollars in settlements.
Rod is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Indiana, including the 7th U.S. Judicial Circuit. He is also a member of the Indiana Trial Lawyers and Evansville Bar Associations.
Rod has been active in the community over the years serving in such capacities as an adjunct professor at the University of Evansville and Cub baseball coach for Reitz Memorial High School.
Bar Admissions
- All State and Federal Courts in Indiana, including the 7th U.S. Judicial Circuit
Professional Associations
- Indiana Trial Lawyers
- Evansville Bar Association