• Payne v. Samsung Elec. Am., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-04
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Electronics | Manufacturing | Retail
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David C. Malatesta, Jr., Shelsby & Leoni, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Donald M. Ransom, Daniel P. Daly, Casarino Christman Shalk Ransom & Doss, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher T. Logullo, Cobb & Logullo, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N23C-03-193 FWW

    Court dismissed case where plaintiff was on inquiry notice that retaining or using product constituted agreement to binding arbitration with manufacturer, with the arbitration agreement delegating questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator.

  • Taylor v. Killen

    Publication Date: 2023-12-04
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Scott
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel H. Fredricks, Nitsche & Fredericks, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Stephen F. Dryden, Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP, New Castle, DE; Joseph J. Bellew, Joseph E. Brenner, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N22C-03-068 CLS

    Service upon foreign corporation was ineffective where service upon its domestic subsidiary could not impute notice of the action and mailing service of process to the foreign corporation did not comply with the requirements of the Hague Convention.

  • In Re: Proton Pump Inhibitors Prod. Liab. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-28
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Martin Bienstock, Bienstock PLLC, Washington, D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: James J. Freebery, Daniel J. Brown, Makenzie Windfelder, Hayley J. Reese, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Arthur E. Brown, William Hoffman, Matthew Douglas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY; Amy K. Fisher, Katherine D. Althoff, Carolyn E. Riggs, Ice Miller LLP, Indianapolis, IN; Philip A. Rovner, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sherry Knutson, Tucker Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Craig A. Thompson, Venable LLP, Baltimore, MD for defendants.

    Case Number: N17C-07-001 PPI

    Plaintiff brought the underlying personal injury action against defendants alleging that defendants were responsible for developing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing proton pump inhibitor products that were unsafe, defectively designed, lacked proper warnings, and were unfit to be marketed and sold in the United States. Defendants individually and collectively moved to dismiss the claims. Plaintiff brought the case as administrator of a health care plan directly and as subrogee of its members' claims for a variety of injurie

  • In Re: Proton Pump Inhibitors Prod. Liab. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Martin Bienstock, Bienstock PLLC, Washington, D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: James J. Freebery, Daniel J. Brown, Makenzie Windfelder, Hayley J. Reese, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Arthur E. Brown, William Hoffman, Matthew Douglas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY; Amy K. Fisher, Katherine D. Althoff, Carolyn E. Riggs, Ice Miller LLP, Indianapolis, IN; Philip A. Rovner, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sherry Knutson, Tucker Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Craig A. Thompson, Venable LLP, Baltimore, MD for defendants.

    Case Number: N17C-07-001 PPI

    Plaintiff brought the underlying personal injury action against defendants alleging that defendants were responsible for developing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing proton pump inhibitor products that were unsafe, defectively designed, lacked proper warnings, and were unfit to be marketed and sold in the United States. Defendants individually and collectively moved to dismiss the claims. Plaintiff brought the case as administrator of a health care plan directly and as subrogee of its members' claims for a variety of injurie

  • Arcelik A.S. v. EI DuPont de Nemours & Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-20
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Consumer Products | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Greenaway
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher F. Cannataro, April M. Ferraro, John M. Seaman, Abrams & Bayliss, Wilmington, DE; Christopher M. Ryan, Shearman & Sterling, Washington, DC for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandon R. Harper, John A. Sensing, Potter Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 22-2634

    Global parent corporation did not qualify as the manufacturer of allegedly defective components which were made by a foreign subsidiary using materials produced by a third-party supplier, where the parent did not control the day-to-day manufacturing operations and merely established product standards.

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  • In re: Asbestos Litig.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Jones
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Dalton, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael Collins Smith, Balick & Balick, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian D. Tome, Reilly, McDevitt & Henrich, P.C., Wilmington, DE, attorney for defendant.

    Case Number: N19C-01-100 ASB

    Manufacturer of machinery expressly designed to work on asbestos-containing products could have liability in asbestos litigation since use of the product would inevitably create hazardous asbestos dust, imposing a duty to warn upon the manufacturer.

  • Soares v. Cont'l Motors, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-16
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Aerospace | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Primos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip T. Edwards, Murphy & Landon, Wilmington, DE; Ricardo M. Martinez-Cid, Lea P. Bucciero, Podhurst Orseck, P.A., Miami, FL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Andrea S. Brooks, Wilks Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE; John S. Bagby, Jr., Bagby & Associates, LLC, Paoli, PA for defendants.

    Case Number: K19C-12-028 NEP

    Court declined to dismiss spouse's noneconomic damages claim arising from fatal plane crash in Brazil where location of proof and unavailability of witnesses for compulsory process did not create an overwhelming hardship and the parties had already litigated the present case for over three years.

  • Hindinger v. J&M Temp, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-03-14
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Brennan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrance Kimmel, Linda Malkin, Kimmel Carter Roman Peltz & O’Neill PA, Christiana, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Amy Taylor, Heckler & Frabizzio, Wilmington, DE: Kevin Connors, Marshal Dennehy Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; Annice Mae Mattus, Castell Abner, J. Scott Shannon, Lee Shoemaker, Washington, DC; Jeffrey G. Granillo, Chambliss Bahner & Stophel, P.C., Chattanooga, TN for defendants.

    Case Number: N20C-01-272 DJB

    Components suppliers not entitled to indemnification from employer against employee's product liability claims, where there was no basis for express indemnification under the exclusivity provisions of the workers' compensation act nor a basis to find implied contractual indemnification.

  • Baker v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Heather Long, Kimmel Carter Roman Peltz & O’Neill, PA, Newark, DE; David L. Kwass, Benjamin Baer, Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Shari L. Milewski, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy, LLC, Wilmington, DE; David Killoran, Squire Patton Boggs, San Francisco, CA; Gerard Cedrone, Lavin, Cedrone, Graver, Boyd & DiSipio, Philadelphia, PA for defendants.

    Case Number: S18C-06-002 CAK

    Court declined to grant summary judgment dismissal based on alleged insufficiencies of plaintiff's expert's opinion where defendants' challenges to the expert's opinion were based primarily on factual disagreements that the jury was entitled to resolve.

  • Pedicone v. Thompson/Center Arms Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-22
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph J. Rhoades, Stephen T. Morrow, Rhoades & Morrow LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael A. Trunk, Thomas E. Bosworth, Kline & Spector, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Timothy Jay Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anthony M. Pisciotti, Danny C. Lallis, Pisciotti Lallis Erdreich, Florham Park, NJ for defendants.

    Case Number: N17C-11-264 WCC

    Court correctly precluded plaintiffs' expert from testifying that a new weapon design was evidence of an alternative feasible design for a prior version of the weapon designed decades ago since such evidence would ignore the normal progress of technological development.