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PO Box 9579
4200 Beach Drive, Suite #3
Rapid City, SD 57709
Phone: (605) 721-2800
Fax: (605) 721-2801
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Gary D. Jensen
 Rapid City, South Dakota
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Gary
Jensen has a broad range of civil litigation experience. His practice involves complex matters in the business, insurance,
construction, product liability, health care, personal injury and professional
negligence fields.
Gary has been named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the South Dakota Trial
Lawyers Association. He was President of that Association, and has served
his profession in many other capacities during his twenty-nine years of practice.
Mr. Jensen's work has earned him an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the
highest ranking a lawyer may obtain.
EXAMPLES OF LITIGATION EXPERIENCE
CONSTRUCTION
- Landslide of hillside neighborhood
- Water system design, housing subdivision
- Retaining wall failure, multi story parking structure
- HVAC Design
PRODUCTS LIABILITY
- Quadriplegia, machinery run-over
- Severe burns, high voltage explosion
- Multiple injuries, fall from work station
- Fire Destruction of Farm Machinery
PREMISES LIABILITY
- Quadriplegia, construction site accident
- Electrocution deaths (child and adult)
- Patient fall/jump from hospital window
MOTOR VEHICLE
- Traumatic induced Alzheimers
- Permanent vertigo
- Brain injury
- Fractures
- Soft tissue damage
BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL
- Minority shareholder oppression
- Wrongful termination
- Non-compete agreement enforcement
INSURANCE
-Primary carrier failure to settle
-Underinsured bad faith
-Insurance coverage for business torts
-Workmans compensation carrier bad faith
REAL ESTATE
- Right of First Refusal
- Prescriptive easement
- Access to landlocked parcel
MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE
- Failure to diagnose cancer, and death
- Childbirth, and cerebral palsy
- Glaucoma mis-diagnosis, and blindness
- Unnecessary and wrong site surgery
CLASS ACTION/ANTI-TRUST
- Tobacco products, health care expense
- Tobacco products, indirect purchaser
- Rubber chemicals, indirect purchaser
- Carbon Black, indirect purchaser
ENVIRONMENTAL
- Forest fires (multiple) and resulting multi
million dollar claims for suppression costs,
rehabilitation, timber loss, business losses,
and the like
CORPORATE REPRESENTATION
- Software company
- Electrical contracting
- School District
- Multi-state janitorial service
- Gold Mining Company
- Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
- Personal Injury -- Defense
- Products Liability Law
- Health & Health Care Law
- Litigation & Appeals
- Construction Law
- Business & Commercial Law
- Professional Malpractice Law
- Native Peoples Law
- 90% of Practice Devoted to Litigation and Appeals
- South Dakota, 1978
- U.S. Federal Courts, 1978
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1983
- Sicangu Oyate Bar Association (Rosebud Sioux Tribe)
- University of South Dakota School of Law, Vermillion, South Dakota,
1978
J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
- South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota,
1975
B.S., Bachelor of Science
Honors: High Honors
- The Search and Seizure Condition of Probation: Supervisory or Unconstitutional 22 South Dakota Law Review, 1977
- Legislative Larceny: The Legislature Acts Unconstitutionally When It Arbitrarily Abolishes or Limits Common Law Rights to Redress for Injury South Dakota Law Review, Vol. 31, 1985
- Hammonds Vs. Hartford Fire Insurance Company, 501 F3d 991 (8th Circuit 2007)
- Mudlin v. Hills Material Company, 2007 SD 118
- Johns vs. Black Hills Power, Inc,, 2006 SD 85
(S.D. 2006)
- Rancour vs. Golden Reward Mining Co., 2005 S.D. 28
(S.D. 2005)
- Frankenfeld vs. Crompton et al, 697 N.W.2d 378
(S.D. 2005)
- Rothenberger v. Wharf, #22607,
( 2003)
- Cleveland et al v. FMG, Inc. and others,
(S.D. 54 2003)
- Fulmer v. State Farm Ins. co., 514 NW2d 861
(S.D. 1994)
- Fulmer v. State Farm Ins. Co., 498 NW2d 357
(S.D. 1993)
- Matter of Certification of Question of Law from U.S. Dist. Court, Dist. of South Dakota, Western Div., 369 N.W.2d 658
(S.D. 1985)
- Zacher v. Budd Co., 396 N.W.2d 122
(S.D. 1986)
- Matter of Certification of a Question of Law from U.S. Dist. Court, Dist. of South Dakota, Southern Division, 387 N.W.2d 42
(S.D. 1986)
- Individuals and families
- AEGIS
- Automated Maintenance Systems
- Auto Owners Insurance Company
- Black Hills Corporation
- Black Hills Power
- Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company
- Casey Peterson and Associates
- Children's Home Society
- Church & Dwight Co., Inc
- Crompton Corporation
- Daimler Chrysler
- DeGussa Companies
- Dupont De emours & Company
- Elk Mountain School district
- Ferber Engineering
- Golden Reward Mining Company
- Honeywell International, Inc.
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Parkside Design, Inc.
- Phillip Morris
- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc.
- Security Insurance Company of Hartford
- Sicangu Village Estates Limited Partnership
- SolCom, Inc.
- St. Francis Indian School
- US Bank
- Wharf Resources USA, Inc.
- XL Design Professional
- US Bank of South Dakota
- South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association,
1979
- Present
- Board Member, 1988-1999; President, 1990-1991
- State Bar of South Dakota, Chairman, Civil Pattern Jury Instructions Committee
- Chairman, Negligence and Tort Law Committee
- American Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
- Member 1979 to present; State Delegate 1991-1999
- Admitted to Rosebud Sioux Tribal Court
- Admitted to Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court
- Admitted to Ogala Sioux Tribal Court
- Speaker, South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association, Fall 2007 Seminar, Handling Expert Witnesses.
- Faculty, South Dakota Trial Assembly, University of South Dakota Law School, July 9-13, 2007
- June 10, 1953, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America
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