September 24, 2021
The South Dakota Supreme Court, in an opinion released Sept. 23, agreed with a lower court ruling that two people on a motorcycle who were severely injured in a crash with a volunteer firefighting trainee cannot collect damages from the …
August 3, 2021
The South Dakota Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit to go forward alleging police officers used excessive force when arresting a Sioux Falls woman in 2016. Nichole Boggs sued in Second Circuit Court for injuries she suffered when two police …
July 22, 2016
The South Dakota Supreme Court says a Quinn family should collect insurance for cattle that drowned during the autumn 2013 blizzard that devastated western South Dakota ranchers. The high court in an opinion released July 21 ruled that Richard and …
June 9, 2015
The South Dakota Supreme Court says a man who broke his ankle running away from a co-worker on whom he had played a prank at a construction site is entitled to workers’ compensation. In Jason Petrik v. JJ Concrete, Inc. …
November 22, 2013
A woman who sued Sanford Medical Center for malpractice for a 2007 surgical procedure that was aborted should not be granted another trial, the South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled. Lisa Lewis sued Sanford after an anesthetist mistakenly attached a …
July 16, 2013
The South Dakota Supreme Court says a Sioux Falls company does not have to pay workers’ compensation insurance benefits to the estate of an employee who was shot and killed by her estranged husband in the company’s parking lot. Thirty-eight-year-old …