Personal Injury Attorneys in North Dakota

Dr. Philip Gattuso, a 49-year-old Fargo dentist, was beaten to death with a hammer in his home in October 2009. His father-in-law, Gene Kirkpatrick, had paid a hit man $3,000 with $10,000 more promised, because he wanted custody of Gattuso's young daughter. Kirkpatrick is serving life without parole. In July 2013, after a bench trial on damages, Judge Lisa Fair McEvers entered a $9,656,139.50 wrongful-death judgment for the girl and the estate. Kirkpatrick says he cannot pay any of it.

A twelve-year-old girl died while in the care of a residential treatment facility in North Dakota. Her parents' federal civil rights action was dismissed by the district court, reinstated by the Eighth Circuit in 2022, and settled on remand for $2.9 million, reported as the largest known civil rights settlement in the state.

Lacey Higdem, 19, was found hallucinating in the woods under the influence of methamphetamine and booked into the Rolette County Jail in Rolla, North Dakota on June 3, 2020. She died in her cell roughly nine hours later. Rolette County and two former correctional officers made a $2 million offer of judgment, which was accepted.

A North Dakota jury awarded Michael Davis $1.66 million after CHI St. Alexius Health Williston and Dr. David Keene failed to refer him to a kidney specialist for nearly two years, allowing IgA nephropathy to progress to total kidney failure and an eventual transplant.