A jury in Rapid City awarded $6.2 million to the estate of the late Teri Powell, a former Spanish teacher who died of cancer in 2007. The jury, in U.S. District Court, sided with Powell in a dispute over disability insurance. In 2001, while she was teaching at Rapid City Stevens High School, Powell got…
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