Personal Injury Attorneys in South Dakota

A federal judge awarded $41.6 million to two young victims after a Flandreau Sioux Tribe police chief initiated a reckless, policy-violating pursuit at speeds exceeding 100 mph on gravel roads in Moody County, South Dakota, leaving one teenager with a permanent traumatic brain injury.

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.

A federal jury awarded $1.1 million to a pretrial detainee who was sexually assaulted three times by a corrections officer at Pennington County Jail.

On January 26, 1998, Julie and Erica Boomsma drove into a railroad flatcar blocking an elevator-service crossing in Wolsey, South Dakota, where the flashing lights were not working and the crossbuck understated the number of tracks. Julie broke her neck, right leg and right ankle and was left disabled; Erica had a cracked sinus, a concussion and a contusion. A jury awarded Julie and her husband $1,059,873.40 and Erica $21,781.88, and the South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed.