May 4, 2014 | Professional Negligence
A Grant County jury returned a verdict for $150,000 of principal and pre-judgment interest of approximately $45,000, for a total judgment of $195,000 in an attorney malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty case. The case was Harms v Boos. The jury took two hours to...Dec 20, 2012 | Commercial Litigation
A McPherson County jury found that a Roscoe bank and its president acted fraudulently in inducing a Eureka couple to sign a $650,000 promissory note and mortgage in March 2004. The jury decided that $439,100 of the note and mortgage was obtained by fraud. First State...May 30, 2012 | Insurance Litigation
In Day County, South Dakota, a jury returned a $2.4 million bad faith and breach of insurance contract verdict against Nationwide Insurance. We tried the case over a two-week period. The jury was unanimous. Nationwide’s use of improper training and incentives...Feb 12, 2012 | Insurance Litigation
Schoenbeck Law settled an insurance bad faith suit against National Farmers Union for $425,000. NFU is owned by an Australian conglomerate, QBE. NFU was using a method of adjusting property claims that cheated its insureds. Our specialty is in digging through the...Nov 30, 2011 | Personal Injury
The South Dakota Supreme Court in Fix v. First State Bank of Roscoe, 2011 S.D. 80, 807 N.W.2d 612, returned a favorable decision for Rita Fix, a client of Schoenbeck Law. A Faulk County jury had already found that First State Bank of Roscoe and the Edmunds County...