Matt Kavanagh
Personal Injury Attorney · Indianapolis, Indiana
I am the founder of Kavanagh Injury Law, P.C. I have been licensed in Indiana since 2017, and I represent injured people at a flat 20% contingency fee that never goes up.
Personal Injury Attorney · Indianapolis, Indiana
I am the founder of Kavanagh Injury Law, P.C. I have been licensed in Indiana since 2017, and I represent injured people at a flat 20% contingency fee that never goes up.
Every one was a litigation file. None were pre-suit claims settled without a lawsuit being filed.
Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.
I have spent nine years in Indiana civil litigation, and I have worked both sides of it. I started in insurance defense, moved to medical malpractice defense, and then went to the plaintiff side, where I have stayed. Two of my five jobs were spent defending insurance companies and their insureds. That is not something I gloss over. It is the reason I know what the other side of the file looks like, how a claim gets valued internally, and what actually moves an adjuster.
Every one of those files was in litigation. Not one was a pre-suit claim closed with a phone call to an adjuster before a lawsuit was ever filed.
That matters to you more than the number does, and here is why. I spent my first two years defending insurance companies, so I know how a claim gets valued from the inside. Part of that evaluation is who is holding the file and whether that lawyer has ever made anyone actually defend a case. A lawyer who rarely files suit gets offers that reflect it, and the client never sees what happened, because they have nothing to compare their offer to.
I am not asking you to take my word for any of this. Because every one of my files was litigated, every one of them sits on a public Indiana court docket with my name on it as counsel of record.
I started Kavanagh Injury Law in 2026 because the standard personal injury fee did not make sense to me. Most Indiana firms charge a third, and many jump to 40% once a lawsuit is filed. I charge a flat 20% from the first call through trial and appeal, and it never goes up. The work does not get worse because the fee is lower. It is the same litigation I have been doing since 2017.
I handle Indiana cases directly: auto and truck collisions, slip and falls and other premises claims, pedestrian and bicycle injuries, uninsured and underinsured motorist claims, and wrongful death. I take a deliberately small number of files so that the person who signs your case is the person who works it.
Plaintiff personal injury practice at a flat 20% contingency fee.
Plaintiff personal injury litigation. Litigation only, no pre-suit caseload.
Plaintiff personal injury litigation. Carried an active roster of roughly 100 files at a time, supervising four paralegals. Litigation only, no pre-suit caseload.
Medical malpractice defense, including Indiana medical review panel practice.
Insurance defense litigation.
Drafted dispositive motions and legal memoranda for Deputy Attorneys General in state and federal court.
Researched case law, reviewed evidence, drafted motions, and prepared major felony attorneys for trial.
Sole counsel for the appellant. The Court of Appeals reversed an order enforcing a settlement and remanded the case, holding the record showed no meeting of the minds on any of the settlement's actual terms.
Sole counsel for the appellant on the briefs. A published opinion deciding a question of first impression under Indiana's Child Wrongful Death Statute, Indiana Code section 34-23-2-1: whether a personal representative may bring a claim the child's deceased parent never filed. The Court of Appeals affirmed.
One of four speakers on the Sunrise Program, presenting on how to manage a high-volume personal injury caseload.
Read the talkThe long answer to a question asked in public: what an injury file actually costs to produce, which of those costs came out, and the one thing that cannot be proven yet.
Read itA 30 day wait before an insurer can work the personal injury claim, matching the rule Indiana already applies to lawyers. And disclosure of the declarations page on written request, before a lawsuit has to be filed to compel it.
Read the positionsSelected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars for six consecutive years, 2021 through 2026.
Selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Thomson Reuters), 2021-2026. Selection methodology at superlawyers.com. A rating is not a certification of specialization and does not guarantee results.
Case reviews are free and there is no obligation. If I am not the right lawyer for your case, I will tell you that on the first call.
Auto Accidents
Truck Accidents
Slip and Fall
Pedestrian and Bicycle
Uninsured Motorist
Wrongful Death
20%. That's it. At every stage.
Pre-suit. After filing. Through trial. Through appeal. The fee never increases.
See how the math works