Richard Dolsen, Jr. v. Veoride Inc, et al.

── Richard Dolsen, Jr. v. Veoride Inc, et al. ── Case No.: 24S-CT-00225 Court: Indiana Supreme Court Date: July 02, 2024 Author: Justice Geoffrey Slaughter County of Origin: Allen Category: Civil Decision: Reversed and Remanded Our traditional “fireman’s rule” limited a firefighter’s tort recovery for injuries sustained when responding to a fire. The rule’s origin is a premises-liability case that held a landowner’s only duty to a firefighter who enters the premises to combat a fire is to refrain from positive wrongful acts. Woodruff v. Bowen, 34 N.E. 1113 (Ind. 1893). After Woodruff, the rule expanded and evolved over more than a hundred years into our most recent iteration in Babes Showclub, Jaba, Inc. v. Lair, 918 N.E.2d 308 (Ind. 2009).