Chelsie V. Henderson

Christopher A. Pearcy is a senior partner at Hume Smith Geddes Green & Simmons, LLP, whose practice includes personal injury, civil litigation, insurance defense, products liability, and complex insurance coverage disputes. He represents individuals, businesses, and insurance companies in Indiana and Illinois. His broader litigation work includes premises and auto liability, construction defects and accidents, environmental claims, toxic torts, business disputes, employment law, workers’ compensation, and medical malpractice.

Chris earned a J.D. from Indiana University, Maurer School of Law in 2004 and a B.S. in Public Affairs, with distinction, from Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs in 2000. His legal and public affairs education supports a litigation practice involving regulatory, insurance, business, and injury issues. He is admitted in Indiana, Illinois, and the US District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Indiana.

Chris has handled significant products liability, disaster, insurance, and construction-related litigation. His reported work includes an appellate victory in a products liability case involving Pendu Manufacturing and a successful defense connected to litigation arising from the Indiana State Fair stage collapse. These matters required extensive discovery, dispositive motions, appellate briefing, and coordination of complex factual records across high-stakes civil disputes.

Christopher A. Pearcy combines personal injury and insurance litigation with experience in products, construction, environmental, business, and mass-tort matters. He has also presented and published on insurance coverage, bad faith, social host liability, and related litigation issues. His broad civil practice gives him experience evaluating claims from multiple perspectives and managing disputes that involve complex liability, coverage, and evidentiary questions.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Gutwein Law
• Member, Indiana State Bar Association
• Member, Marion County Bar Association
• Associate, McKinney-Shepard Indianapolis Inn of Court

Licensed State

• Indiana

Education

• Indiana University McKinney School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD) (Summa Cum Laude)
• Earlham College
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Business and Nonprofit Management

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