South Dakota Injuries

An office worker in Sioux Falls got lung damage from workplace fumes, and now the defense is trying to dump a huge share of the blame on him while he also worries about his VA benefits.

A Sioux Falls postal worker with a shattered femur after a head-on crash is being told he shares enough blame to gut the value of the case.

A Rapid City student bitten by a dog at a rental property may have a claim, but a policy exclusion can turn a straightforward case into a fight over which insurer, if any, has to pay.

A Watertown commuter with severe anxiety after witnessing a fatal workplace accident may have a real injury claim, but a hospital lien can rip through the money fast.

When a Mitchell slip-and-fall claim gets kneecapped by an IME doctor even though the MRI shows real injury, Medicare and medical liens can turn the whole thing into a financial trap.

A Watertown night-shift security guard with silicosis may still have a claim even if they stayed on the job, there were no witnesses, and the contractor is denying the dust exposure.

A delayed ER visit after a sidewalk fall in Rapid City does not automatically kill the claim, but it gives the insurer an opening to argue the shattered elbow came from something else.

A daycare worker with a cervical spine injury after a rollover can watch the payout get gutted fast if the insurer pins too much blame on her, and kids in the vehicle trigger a different set of rules.

A Brookings janitor can still have a workers' comp claim for the original injury and the bad surgical aftermath, and the hospital mistake may be a separate case entirely.

South Dakota workers usually need to give written notice of a job injury fast, and waiting because the pain got worse later can turn into a nasty fight over the claim.

If a husband is killed on the job in South Dakota, the family usually starts in workers' comp, but there are situations where a separate wrongful death case may still exist.

A sore back on an old chart is not the same thing as a free pass for workers' comp to deny a new job injury that made it worse.