In the Matter of the Certified Question: Jeffrey Cutchin as Personal Representative of the Estates of Claudine Cutchin and Adelaide Cutchin v. Amy L. Beard, Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Insurance, Administrator of the Indiana Patient's Compensation Fund

── In the Matter of the Certified Question: Jeffrey Cutchin as Personal Representative of the Estates of Claudine Cutchin and Adelaide Cutchin v. Amy L. Beard, Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Insurance, Administrator of the Indiana Patient's Compensation Fund ── Case No.: 21S-CQ-00048 Court: Indiana Supreme Court Date: June 30, 2021 Author: Justice Geoffrey Slaughter Category: Other Decision: Certified Question Disposed with Opinion Justice Rush, Justice Massa, and Justice Goff concur. Justice David concurs in result Before us are two certified questions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. We answer question two in the affirmative, holding that the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act applies when a plaintiff alleges that a qualified health-care provider treated someone else negligently and that the negligent treatment injured the plaintiff. Because our answer resolves this case, we decline to answer question one. I In 2017, Sylvia Watson, age 72, and her adult granddaughter picked up Watson’s car from a repair shop. Cutchin v.