Publication Date: 2022-03-29
Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
Industry: Insurance | Manufacturing
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam S. Ziffer, Meredith Elkins, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & Mckenna LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
for defendant: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, Arthur Luk, Omomah Abebe, Kolya D. Glick, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; 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, D.C. for appellees.
Case Number: D69760
The court agreed with the lower court that plaintiff's claim was excluded from coverage but held that whether a claim related back to an earlier claim was decided by the language of the policy, not the generic fundamentally identical standard used by the lower court.