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  • Fansler v. N. Am. Title Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-27
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D69583

    The court held that because the title insurance policy did not cover consequential damages, plaintiffs would not be able to present evidence on lost wages, carrying costs, lost opportunity costs or lost earnings allegedly incurred because of survey mis-takes.

  • United States v. Delaware Dep't of Ins.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-20
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Federal Government | Insurance | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Hubbert, Acting Assistant Attorney General, David C. Weiss, United States Attorney, Ward W. Benson, Kyle L. Bishop, Trial Attorneys, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC for petitioner.
    for defendant: Kathleen P. Makowski, Deputy Attorney General, State of Delaware Department of Justice; Wilmington, DE; Patricia A. Davis, Deputy State Solicitor, State of Delaware Department of Justice, Dover, DE; James J. Black, III, Jeffrey B. Miceli, Mark W. Drasnin, Black & Gerngross, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for respondent.
    Case Number: D69578

    The court held that the government's petition to enforce summons on a state department of insurance to produce documents related to captive insurance companies should be granted absent a showing that production constituted the business of insurance.

  • Columbus Life Ins. Co. v. Wilmington Trust, N.A.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-22
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Donald L. Gouge, Jr., LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael J. Miller, Joseph M. Kelleher, Philip J. Farinella, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kevin G. Abrams, John M. Seaman, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Harry S. Davis, Robert E. Griffin, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York, NY; Aislinn K. Affinito, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.
    Case Number: D69542

    Promissory estoppel and negligent misrepresentation counterclaims failed where holder of stranger-owned life insurance policy could not succeed on a legal claim to require insurer to pay out on the illegal and void policy.

  • CVR Refining, LP v. XL Specialty Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-25
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Energy | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robin L. Cohen, Alexander M. Sugzda, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna, New York, NY; Herbert Beigel, Law Offices of Herbert Beigel, Tucson, AZ for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Robert J. Katzenstein, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins, LLP, Wilimington, DE; Leland H. Jones, Chiara Tondi Resta, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC; John C. Phillips, Jr., David Bilson, Phillips McLaughlin & Hall, P.A. Wilmington, DE; Erica J. Kerstein, Robinson & Cole LLP, New York, NY; Geoffrey W. Heineman, Ropers Majeski, P.C. for defendants.
    Case Number: D69512

    Court declined to dismiss in favor of another action filed in another jurisdiction where defendants had, without warning, engaged in a race to the courthouse to file before plaintiffs, making plaintiffs' case filed only days later a contemporaneously filed action that precluded traditional first-filed rules.

  • First Solar, Inc. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA,

    Publication Date: 2021-07-07
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Energy | Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam Ziffer, Meredith Elkins, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John C. Phillips, Jr., David A. Bilson, Phillips McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Charles C. Lemley, Kim Melvin, Anna Schaffner, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, Arthur Luk, Omomah Abebe, Cole Kroshus, Arnold & Portker Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.
    Case Number: D69456

    Second securities fraud suit filed by plaintiff who opted out of prior suit and asserted claims arising from the same alleged misrepresentations related back to the first action, thereby causing it to fall out of the coverage period of the relevant insurance policy.

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  • Dewey Beach Enter., Inc. v. Drass Ins. Agency, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-06-02
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Construction | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Butler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neil R. Lapinski, Phillip A. Giordano, Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Susan List Hauske, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE; Kimberly M. Jones, Christian M. Gunneson, Wood, Smith Henning & Berman, LLP, Tampa, FL for defendant.
    Case Number: D69415

    Insurers were not entitled to dismiss or stay action seeking declaration of coverage for triggering loss under insurers' policy based solely on insurers' claim of continuing to investigate the claim.

  • Galarza v. Olmstead

    Publication Date: 2021-05-05
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Butler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan B. O’Neill, Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O’Neill, P.A., Christiana, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Amy M. Taylor, Heckler & Frabizzio, Wilmington, DE; Ronald M. Ransom, Casarino Christman Shalk Ran-som & Doss, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69385

    Where a driver had been excluded from coverage under a policy, injured family members could not recover under the uninsured motorist provisions of the policy.

  • Henry v. The Cincinnati Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-05
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elisa A. Greenberg, Austin & Mondell, P.A. for Horizon Services, Inc. and Eastern Alliance Ins. Co. Jona-than B. O’Neill, Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O’Neill, P.A. for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: William A. Crawford, Franklin & Prokopik for defendant The Cincinnati Ins Co. Patrick G. Rock, Heckler & Fabrizzio for defendant State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co.
    Case Number: D69388

    The court denied a motion to intervene by a workers' compensation carrier because it did not have a right to assert its lien against plaintiff's underinsured motorist benefits.

  • Estate of Albart v. Lavastone Capital LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-03-31
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Donald L. Gouge, Jr., LLC, Wilmington, DE; Daniel R. Miller, Walden Macht & Haran LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Megan Ward Cascio, Zi-Xiang Shen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69344

    Court declined to dismiss or stay action under Colorado River abstention doctrine where moving party failed to explain how the case met any of the six factors under the doctrine to warrant favoring a parallel action in another jurisdiction.

  • Calamos Asset Mgmt., Inc. v. Travelers Cas. & Surety Co. of Am.,

    Publication Date: 2021-03-10
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew J. Schlesinger, Colin P. Watson, Maura A. Sokol, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Francis G.X. Pileggi, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ronald P. Schiller, Daniel J. Layden, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.
    Case Number: D69318

    Corporation was not entitled to coverage under Directors and Officers liability policy for stockholders' underlying action against the company where the policy only provided coverage for securities claims and the underlying breach of fiduciary duty claims did not concern regulating securities.