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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
About Carleton Hoy
Carleton R. "Tex" Hoy is a native of Vermillion, South Dakota. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1950 and his Juris Doctor in 1956, both from the University of South Dakota. He was a member of the USD Board of Law Review from 1955 to 1956 and served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Mickelson in the District of South Dakota from 1956 to 1957, and later as Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney from 1973 to 1974. Tex has over 60 years of experience as a trial lawyer, having litigated cases in state and federal courts and before the Department of Labor.
He has extensive appellate experience before the South Dakota Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has served as President of the State Bar of South Dakota (1979-1980), President of the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association (1968-1969), and President of the International Society of Barristers (1988-1989). He is a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers and a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Ronald Jensen, 71, was left quadriplegic when an unbraked single-rail cart of plywood tipped in the wind while a Menards employee loaded his truck in Mitchell on August 1, 2012. He died of unrelated bladder cancer on January 31, 2013. A Davison County jury awarded his estate and his wife $2,295,971.97 in November 2016, and the South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed in 2018.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
