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After a two-day jury trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Anthony McFerrin, a client represented by Partners Pete Heidepriem and Matthew Tysdal. In March 2023, a driver rear-ended Mr. McFerrin in Sioux Falls. He suffered a back injury that required him to go...
After a two-day jury trial, a jury rendered a verdict in favor of Arianna and Mandy Farris, represented by Vince Purtell and Sam Matson. In June 2019, nine-year-old Arianna Farris sustained a facial laceration when she went down a hotel waterslide. The injury...
HPS Law Firm Partners Scott Heidepriem, Matthew Tysdal, and Pete Heidepriem filed a federal lawsuit against a life insurance company claiming it wrongly canceled the life insurance policy of Donald Hofer. The Dakota Scout published an article on the case, which can...
HPS Law Firm Partner Pete Heidepriem was recently named General Counsel of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. In that role, he will maintain a second office in Fort Thompson, South Dakota, and serve as the chief legal advisor to the Tribal Council and provide legal advice to...
Last week, a federal court of appeals unanimously ruled in favor of HPS Law Firm’s client in a civil rights case. The case involves a traffic stop on I-90 where our client asserted he was pulled over by a highway patrol trooper without probable cause. The federal...
Here at HPS, we usually represent claimants, but on occasion we defend cases. Recently, our team successfully defended clients that were sued by plaintiffs in federal court. In the Fall of 2022, Vince Purtell and Steve Siegel, with the help from team members Sam...
Many jobs carry inherent risks and threats to physical health and safety. This includes jobs such as mining, construction and drilling, but also jobs in which employees may be exposed to toxic chemicals, repetitive heavy lifting and large machinery with the capacity...