DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A waiver prohibiting lawsuits over most types of skiing accidents doesn’t apply in the case of a teenager who was left paraplegic after falling 30 feet from a chair lift at Crested Butte, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled, opening a potentially expensive new avenue for trial lawyers to sue ski resorts.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) - A hospital that provided $75,000 in care to a seasonal worker who skipped his bill and returned to Mexico can’t recover the money from the county where he worked, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers who represented a man who was injured in a car accident with a vehicle driven by a South Dakota employee didn’t commit malpractice by failing to sue the state, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled, rejecting arguments there was evidence the driver at fault was on duty at the time.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) - The owners of a South Dakota farm can be sued over an explosion that killed two workers as they attempted to weld a crack in a truck’s diesel fuel tank, the state’s highest court ruled.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of South Dakota has upheld a lower court's ruling that a restaurant was not negligence in a patron's slip-and-fall case.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) – The South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed Oct. 3 that the city of Sioux Falls is immune from liability in a lawsuit filed by injured cyclist Robert Fischer.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) – The South Dakota Supreme Court has affirmed a summary judgment in favor of a hospital and reversed another in favor of a physical therapy company in a medical negligence case.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) – A more than $2.2 million award handed down in 2016 by a Davison County jury for a now-deceased man injured at a Menards store in Mitchell, South Dakota, was recently affirmed by the South Dakota Supreme Court.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of the State of South Dakota ruled in favor of a newspaper in its case against the city of Sioux Falls on Sept. 20.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) – The South Dakota Supreme Court has granted a man the chance to prove he had an agreement with his terminally ill brother that included a $100,000 severance payment if he was fired by his sister-in-law.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) - The South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court's ruling allowing the issuance of an air quality permit to Hyperion Refining LLC, enabling the company to begin construction on a petroleum refinery and power plant in Union County.
PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) - The South Dakota Supreme Court has affirmed that an "innocent insured" cannot collect her share of an insurance claim due to the conviction of her co-insured husband in connection with the arson of their business.
Gilbertson PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) - The South Dakota Supreme Court last week upheld an order denying the petition of a man who says witnessing his friend's Russian roulette-style death lead to his post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis.
Severson PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) - The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled this month that coverage is available when the negligent maintenance of an uninsured vehicle results in an accident that causes damages to a claimant.
Zinter PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) - The South Dakota Supreme Court last week found in favor of the maker of a popular line of processed meats in a workers' compensation case.
Meierhenry PIERRE, S.D. (Legal Newsline) - The South Dakota Supreme Court last week upheld a lower court's ruling in favor of popular restaurant chain Pizza Hut following an alleged attack by one of its employees.
