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  • Athene Life & Annuity Co. v. Am. Gen. Life Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-03
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin S. Lessner, Richard J. Thomas, and M. Paige Valeski, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; James P. Gillespie and Dustin Hillsley, Kirkland& Ellis LLP, New York, NY; Adam T. Humann, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff Athene. Brian C. Ralston, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs American Investors and Indianapolis Life.
    for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar and Sabrina M. Hendershot, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant American Life. Joel Friedlander and Christopher P. Quinn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A, Wilmington, DE; John L. Jacobus, J. Walker Johnson, Catherine D. Cockerham, and William Carson, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, DC; Jeffrey B. Korn and Stuart R. Lombardi, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Washington, DC; Joseph G. Davis, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for defendants ZC Resource Investment Trust and ZC Resource LLC.
    Case Number: D68999

    Breach of contract and tortious interference claims arising from alleged rights to surrender or reallocation value from corporate-owned life insurance policies were dismissed as unripe where the policyholder had made no effort to surrender or reallocate.

  • Fowler v. Pratcher Krayer, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-06-03
    Practice Area: Attorney Rates and Arrangements
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Streett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanford Fowler, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Samuel D. Pratcher, III for defendant.
    Case Number: D69001

    Under the terms of a retainer agreement, a law firm was entitled to one-third of the entire settlement.

  • Guy v. City of Wilmington

    Publication Date: 2020-06-03
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel L. Guy, The Law Office of Samuel L. Guy, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Daniel A. Griffith and Kaan Ekiner, Whiteford Taylor Preston LLC , Wilmington, DE for respondent.
    Case Number: D69003

    Although a dispute about the validity of city council votes constituted a justiciable controversy, a rule re-quiring a supermajority vote for certain amendments did not violate the city charter.

  • State of Delaware, Dep't of Transp. v. Pearson

    Publication Date: 2020-06-03
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Jurden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Slattery, Delaware Dep’t of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state.
    for defendant: Lance Green, O’Donoghue and O’Donoghue, LLP, New Castle, DE for employees.
    Case Number: D69004

    Two employees were entitled to differential pay when they worked additional night shifts at the request of the agency.

  • The Am. Bottling Co. v. Repole

    Publication Date: 2020-05-27
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garrett B. Moritz and Anne M. Steadman, Ross Aronstam& Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert C. Walters, Russell H. Falconer, and Megan Z. Hulce, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dallas, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss and Daniel J. McBride, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; David H. Bernstein, Jyotin Hamid, Jared I. Kaga, and Matthew J. Patrozziello, Debevois& Plimpton LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D68991

    Attorney-client privilege waived for communications disclosed to counterparty in merger transaction where the merger parties' shared interests were commercial rather than legal in nature.

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  • Wilant v. BNSF Ry. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-05-27
    Practice Area: Occupational Safety and Health
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Butler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Dale Bowers, II, Law Office of A. Dale Bowers, Wilmington, DE; Shawn A. Ricci and Luke T. Pepper, Bern Cappelli, LLC, Conshohocken, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Maria R. Granaudo Gesty, Burns White, LLC, Wilmington, DE; S. Camile Reifers, Boyle Brasher, LLC , Memphis, TN for defendant.
    Case Number: D68997

    The court granted a motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiff's causation expert.

  • First State Orthopaedics v. Employers Ins. Co. of Wausau

    Publication Date: 2020-05-27
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Spandaro, John Sheehan Spadaro, LLC, Smyrna, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kevin J. Connors, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; D. Andrew Hatchett, Tiffany Powers and Robert Poole, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA for defendants.
    Case Number: D68994

    Defendants' voluntary cessation of a business practice did not cause the parties' controversy to become moot, because defendants left open the possibility of returning to that practice in the future.

  • Fansler v. N. Am. Title Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-05-27
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D68993

    Factual issues remained regarding the statute of limitations, so the court denied that aspect of defendant's motion for summary judgment.

  • GXP Capital, LLC v. Argonaut Mfg. Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-05-20
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Finger, Finger & Slanina, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin M. Carson, Law Offices of Benjamin M. Carson, La Jolla, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John L. Reed, Harrison S. Carpenter, of DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Brian A. Foster, Noah A. Katsell and Julie Gryce, DLA Piper LLP (US), San Diego, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: D68985

    Defendants were entitled to relief based on forum non conveniens, but instead of dismissal, the court imposed a stay.

  • Dufresne v. Camden-Wyoming Fire Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-05-20
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Non-Profit
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Primos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory A. Morris, Ligouri & Morris for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jonathan L. Parshall, Murphy & Landon for defendants.
    Case Number: D68983

    Volunteer fire company and its board members were immune from defamation liability under state law pursuant to tort claim act immunity, and under §1983 because the company and the board members did not qualify as state actors for §1983 liability since firefighting was not an exclusive state function and there was no entwinement between the company and the state.