Dec 2, 2008 | Insurance Litigation
Schoenbeck Law completed an insurance bad faith claim against a company in 2008 that provided life insurance for newborns. In this case the child died within a few months of birth, and the company refused to pay the death benefits. When the mother submitted the life...Nov 2, 2008 | Insurance Litigation
Schoenbeck Law exposed a “deny first” strategy of a South Dakota health insurance carrier. The carrier denied coverage for an expensive medical procedure, ignored letters and reports from medical providers, and refused to follow the health insurance policy...Sep 11, 2008 | Commercial Litigation
Schoenbeck Law had the honor and pleasure of successfully completing 2½ years of representation of an established South Dakota commercial institution in a banking litigation case involving a participating lending arrangement. Near the end of the litigation, we...Jun 8, 2005 | Professional Negligence
In Friske, et al. v. Hogan, 2005 S.D. 70, 698 N.W.2d 526, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled for the clients of Schoenbeck Law that an attorney may owe a duty to a will beneficiary, which ruling builds on the Supreme Court decision entered in Chem Age Industries,...Apr 1, 2005 | Insurance Litigation
In a Roberts County case in the Fifth Judicial Circuit against Safeco Insurance Company, we obtained a favorable verdict on the underlying personal injury case, and pursued Safeco for its unreasonable conduct in handling the claim. In that setting, it is an...