Stewart v. Simon Property Group, L.P. (Greenwood Park Mall Shooting Negligent-Security Suit)
The Indiana Supreme Court heard oral argument on January 15, 2026 in the long-running negligent-security suit brought by shooting victim Kaya P.R. Stewart and her family against Greenwood Park Mall owner Simon Property Group, L.P. and its security contractor, Universal Protection Service, LLC (d/b/a Allied Universal Security Services), over the July 17, 2022 food-court mass shooting that killed three people. Both the Marion Superior Court and the Indiana Court of Appeals rejected the defendants' bids to dismiss the case, and the Supreme Court is now weighing the central question of whether a mass shooting at a shopping mall is foreseeable enough, as a matter of law, to support a negligent-security duty running from the mall owner and its security contractor to mall patrons.
Why it matters
One of the most closely watched tests of the foreseeability element in mall and shopping-center negligent-security claims now pending before any state supreme court, with Indiana's status as an open-carry state adding a wrinkle the justices probed directly at argument. Whatever standard the Court adopts will shape how every commercial landlord and contracted security firm in Indiana litigates -- and insures against -- premises-liability exposure tied to third-party criminal acts, and is likely to be cited well beyond Indiana given how thin state supreme court authority remains on this exact question.
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