Wrongful Death

TJ Jarzyniecki is a member of Kightlinger & Gray’s five-member Management Committee. He devotes much of his practice to, and therefore has extensive experience with, fire-related matters. He routinely handles large losses involving fires and explosions causing personal injuries, fatalities and property damage. He uses his more than 30 years of experience to spearhead pre-suit investigations, including evidence preservation, expert retention and early claim evaluation.

Jeff Lowe is a partner at Kightlinger & Gray in New Albany, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. He is chair of the Employment and Civil Rights practice group. He regularly defends governmental entities and their employees throughout Southern Indiana and Kentucky. His practice focuses on defense of governmental entities and their employees on issues ranging from constitutional torts to zoning matters to employment issues, as well as state law claims made against his governmental clients.

Based in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray, Pfenne Cantrell handles complex litigation including Construction, Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith, Subrogation and Fire-related casualties, Product Liability, Securities, and Aviation cases. An economics major as an undergrad, Pfenne uses the knowledge and skills he learned to approach complex matters in a thorough, yet concise manner.

Mike Wroblewski is an attorney in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray, and serves as Chair of the firm’s Transportation Practice Group. He currently focuses his practice on defending individual and corporate clients in personal injury litigation. He routinely appears before State and Federal courts, and has been admitted to practice law in Indiana and Illinois. Mike has tried over 20 jury trials to verdict. Mike is a member of various legal and professional organizations, including the Construction Lawyers Society of America (CLSA), and is an active member of the community.

Melissa Danielson is a general partner in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray. After graduating from Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Melissa practiced law in California but subsequently returned to her native state of Indiana. Melissa has extensive litigation experience in a variety of substantive legal areas, including Trucking and Transportation, Premises Liability, and Municipal Government. She focuses her legal practice on defense of institutions and individuals in tort litigation and pre-litigation counseling. 

John Halstead is an attorney in the Merrillville (northern Indiana) Kightlinger & Gray office with over 20 years’ experience representing insurance companies and their insureds in automobile, homeowner’s, and commercial liability claims, as well as self-insured businesses in premise liability and worker’s compensation defense. John also represents title companies and their insureds in title insurance and escrow claims, and local contractors in mechanic’s lien and construction litigation.

Todd Spurgeon is a litigator with significant trial experience. He routinely appears in State and Federal courts, handling a wide range of insurance defense matters. Todd is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, which is only open to those with significant jury trial experience and high personal character and reputation. Todd is a board member of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, and is a past president of the Indiana State Bar Association.

Erin Clancy is a senior partner in Kightlinger & Gray’s Indianapolis office and is one of five members of our Management Committee. Prior to her work as a litigator at Kightlinger & Gray, Erin’s practice focused on real estate transactions. She brings that experience to her professional liability practice, including work with realtors, mortgage brokers, appraisers, inspectors, property owners associations, and closing agents as well as litigation involving land use and/or management, and title and boundary disputes. Erin majored in biology when receiving her undergraduate degree and regularly uses that knowledge when handling product liability-related matters, especially those cases pertaining to medical devices, as well as toxic and/or mass torts.

Bryce Zoeller is a senior partner in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray. He has extensive trial experience in the state of Indiana, and has first chaired over 60 trials in the State and Federal courts of Indiana and Illinois.