Goodsell Oviatt Law Firm
246 Founders Park Drive, Suite 201, Rapid City, SD 57701, Rapid City, SD 57701
About Goodsell Oviatt Law Firm
Goodsell Oviatt Law Firm provides legal representation for personal injury, bad faith, and medical malpractice cases. Based in Rapid City, South Dakota, the firm also handles auto accidents, slip and falls, and nursing home abuse. Attorneys have secured significant verdicts, including a $42 million award for an injured worker and a $45.5 million bad faith verdict. Partner Verne Goodsell has over 50 years of legal experience. Kristi Erdman assists with birth injury cases and speaks Spanish.
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Notable Case Results
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$45.5M
Bad Faith
A Pennington County jury returned a verdict for $45.5 million against UPS ($15 million) and Liberty Mutual ($30 million) for terminating physician-prescribed medical care needed because of a work injury. Defendants violated a direct order affirmed by the Supreme Court of South Dakota requiring the defendants to provide the care.
$42M
Bad Faith
A Pennington County jury returned a 42-million-dollar verdict against Liberty Mutual and UPS for reprehensible behavior for intentionally denying medical benefits they were ordered to be provided to an injured worker. This was a retrial after a previous $45 million verdict was appealed.
$600,000
Commercial Litigation
The City of Rapid City, represented by Goodsell Quinn, successfully defended against constitutional complaints regarding a citizen-enacted billboard control initiative, reducing the City's exposure from $11 million to $600,000.
$400,000
Sex Discrimination
Federal jury returned a four hundred-thousand-dollar ($400,000) verdict against Thomas J. Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) for sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Ms. Esperance was permanently reassigned from her supervisory position to a non-supervisory position after filing an EEO complaint.