Mar 20, 2020 | Personal Injury
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled for our client, who was wrongfully denied widow’s benefits when her husband was killed on the job at the City of Miller. James “Boney” Bonebright was killed when a trench caved in. The City had a practice of trenching sewer lines...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...Mar 21, 2002 | Personal Injury
A Day County jury returned a $300,000 verdict for a local farmer for back injuries arising from a 1999 car accident. At that time, it was the largest verdict ever returned in Day County, and it reaffirms that local juries understand what a back injury means in the...May 26, 1999 | Personal Injury
In Clausen v. Aberdeen Grain Inspection, Inc. and South Dakota Wheatgrowers Assoc., 1999 S.D. 66, 594 N.W.2d 718, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled in favor of our client in a wrongful death action. Clausen was commenced after our client’s husband died after...Oct 1, 1998 | Personal Injury
After the South Dakota Supreme Court’s refusal to permit a dram shop cause of action, we tried a jury trial in Marshall County against the underinsurance carrier on October 1, 1998, and obtained a verdict of $600,000 for our client. At that time, it was the...Aug 5, 1998 | Personal Injury
Wegleitner v. Sattler and Town of Lake City, 1998 S.D. 88, 582 N.W.2d 688, was the last dram shop case decided by the South Dakota Supreme Court. We represented a deputy sheriff who was rear-ended by a drunk driver. In the litigation, we settled with the drunk driver...