Veolia Water Indianapolis, LLC v. Nat'l Trust Ins. Co.
Feb 06, 2014OUTCOME: Successful Appeal to Supreme Court
Successfully appealed to Indiana Supreme Court who overturned 130 years of common law to find water company was not entitled to common law sovereign immunity on claims regarding the adequacy of the wat ... er supply because the company was not an instrumentality of the government but was a for-profit, autonomous, wholly private entity bound to the city only by contract.
