Overview
Codie is a shareholder practicing in Reminger's Fort Wayne office. He is a tested trial attorney with years of courtroom experience, and has defended clients in general casualty, professional liability, construction liability, premises liability, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. Codie’s expertise also includes bail bond and surety law, education law, and general insurance defense.
Codie has written legal articles that have been featured in Indiana Lawyer and other publications. He has also lectured on a variety of topics including bail and surety law, premises liability, and general insurance defense matters. He is a member of the Allen County and Indiana State Bar Association. He is also an active member of the Defense Research Institute and the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana. Additionally, Codie has volunteered his time to a number of local youth sports programs in his hometown of Auburn, Indiana.
Codie is "Rated Distinguished®" for "Very Highly Rated in Both Legal Ability and Ethical Standards" by Martindale Hubbell Peer Review.
Prior to joining Reminger, Codie practiced as a civil litigation attorney in Fort Wayne. He spent the first decade of his career as a teacher for DeKalb Central Schools.
Honors & Recognitions
Group Dekko Award for Teaching Excellence (2002 and 2005)
Fort Wayne Business Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40 (2010)
"Rated Distinguished®" for "Very Highly Rated in Both Legal Ability and Ethical Standards" by Martindale Hubbell Peer Review
Community & Professional
Defense Research Institute
Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana
Auburn Elks BPOE 1978
-Governmental Relations Chair
Results
- Aug 16, 2024, Defense VerdictAllen County, Indiana
Successful defense of a Fort Wayne hotel in a trip and fall incident causing multiple orbital bone fractures, permanent facial nerve damage, and double vision to the Plaintiff whom the jury found to be primarily at fault more so than the hotel.
- Jul 25, 2024, Summary Judgment GrantedElkhart
Defense of apartment complex alleged to have owed deceased a duty for unforeseeable double-murder, suicide event.
- May 18, 2021, Defense VerdictGrant County, Indiana
Defense of retailer in trip and fall case at distribution center.
- May 6, 2021, Defense VerdictKosciusko County, Indiana
Defense of retailer in slip and fall case at local store.
- Oct 1, 2020, Motion to Dismiss GrantedCass County Superior Court
Defense of premises liability personal injury claim.
- Jan 24, 2020, Directed VerdictAllen, Small claims
Arbitration defense of hospitality discrimination claim
- Dec 9, 2019, Summary JudgmentAllen County, Indiana
Successful defense of a snow removal company sued after a business invitee slipped and fell on the premises where the company was hired to provide snow removal services.
- Dec 26, 2018, Judgment AffirmedIndiana Court of Appeals
Shreeve v. Muncie Chevrolet-Cadillac, Inc.
Plaintiff appealed adverse trial court dismissal of claim based on failure to prosecute.
- Sep 7, 2018Howard County, Indiana
Defense of negligence deception, and criminal conversion, alleging that the estate was entitled to punitive damages based on transfer of decedent’s funds
- Mar 29, 2018, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss GrantedDelaware County, IN
Successfully obtained dismissal of a suit filed against client car dealership.
- Dec 8, 2017, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss GrantedDelaware Circuit Court I
Successfully obtained dismissal of insured mental health counseling center and its counselor after it was sued for alleged unauthorized disclosure of mental health records. Court granted dismissal of the case for lack of personal jurisdiction under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- Nov 16, 2017Marion County, IN
Defense of premises liability claim
- Jun 16, 2017, Summary JudgmentDelaware County, IN
Defense of retail and hospitality personal injury claim arising from a gym member’s trip and fall over the electrical cable housing positioned in front of a row of treadmills.
- Mar 20, 2017, Summary JudgmentAllen County, Indiana
Defense of personal injury claim arising from an invitee alleging to have tripped and fallen on landscape feature of client’s business property
- Sep 20, 2016, Won on Defense Motion to DismissMarion County, IN
Defense of retail and hospitality personal injury / invasion of privacy claim arising from a third party contractor alleged to have watched business invitee while she changed clothes in dressing room
- Aug 17, 2011Allen County, Indiana
Defense of personal injury claim arising from a motorcycle-car accident requiring expert analysis and accident scene reconstruction
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Education
J.D. with Distinctions, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, 2007
B.A. in Education, Purdue University, 1999
Admissions
- State of Indiana, 2008
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, 2008
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, 2008