• RIMSI Corp. v. Massey

    Publication Date: 2020-12-09
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Streett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick Freibott for claimant.
    for defendant: Joseph Andrews and Taylor E. Trapp for employer.

    Case Number: D69219

    The Industrial Accident Board's determination was supported by substantial evidence, and the board did not abuse its discretion in believing claimant's experts over those of employer. Affirmed.

  • First State Orthopaedics, P.A. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-12-09
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Spadaro, John Sheehan Spadaro, LLC, Smyrna, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kevin J. Connors, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; Tiffany Powers, Andrew Hatchett, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA for defendants.

    Case Number: D69214

    Motion for leave to amend class claim denied where proposed relief sought had already been ordered by the court.

  • Stryker Demolition & Envtl. Serv., LLC v. Arcadis U.S., Inc

    Publication Date: 2020-12-02
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sally J. Daugherty, Cohen, Seglias, Pallas, Greenhall & Furman, P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Sherilyn Pastor, Joseph Vila, McCarter & English, LLP, Newark, NJ; Kate Roggio Buck, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69212

    A subcontractor could only seek to recover from the party with whom it had a contract, so the court dis-missed its claim against a third party for unjust enrichment.

  • Delaware State Sportsmen's Ass'n v. Garvin

    Publication Date: 2020-12-02
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Primos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis G. X. Pileggi, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jamie L. Inferrera, Eckert Seamens Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Devera B. Scott, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover, DE; Kayli H. Spialter, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69207

    State erred in issuing restrictions on permissible rifles for hunting where statutory law did not include such restrictions and the state failed to comply with the APA in issuing what constituted a de facto regulation.

  • Ashland LLC v. The Samuel J. Heyman 1981 Continuing Trust

    Publication Date: 2020-11-25
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Viceconte, Gibbons P.C., Wilmington, DE; William S. Hatfield, Camille V. Otero, Esquire, Jennifer A. Hradil, Joshua Elias, Gibbons P.C., Newark, NJ for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: William M. Lafferty, John P. DiTomo, Thomas P. Will, Miranda N. Gilbert, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew J. Rossman, Jonathan B. Oblak, Tyler G. Whitmer, Nicholas Hoy, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69198

    Where the parties' contract contained no language clearly demonstrating that the parties intended to allow for fee-shifting in first-party claims, plaintiff's claim for indemnification of legal fees and costs against contractual counterparty failed.

  • Donald M. Durkin Contracting., Inc. v. City of Newark

    Publication Date: 2020-11-25
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Streett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul A. Logan for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Max B. Walton for defendant.

    Case Number: D69199

    Motion for sanctions and contractual indemnification denied where there was no evidence of vexatious or harassing litigation conduct and moving party failed to follow contractual obligation to submit a demand for indemnification.

  • Quaile v. TBC Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-25
    Practice Area: Occupational Safety and Health
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Jurden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam F. Wasserman, Ciconte Scerba, LLC, Wilmington, DE for claimant.
    for defendant: Paul V. Tatlow, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, P.C., Wilmington, DE for employer.

    Case Number: D69204

    The Industrial Accident Board erred in requiring a claimant to prove an ongoing condition to recover per-manent impairment benefits, so the court reversed and remanded.

  • Foraker v. Amazon.com, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-18
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig T. Eliassen, Schmittinger and Rodriguez, P.A. for appellant.
    for defendant: John J. Ellis, James T. Betts, Heckler & Frabizzio P.A. for appellee.

    Case Number: D69191

    Industrial Accident Board erred in finding worker's present pain to be aggravation of preexisting injuries rather than due to a work-related injury where worker's testimony that he had no pain and sought no treatment for over two decades prior to his work accident went uncontradicted and IAB cited to no other record evidence to reject that uncontradicted testimony as not credible.

  • State of Delaware v. Wright

    Publication Date: 2020-11-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D69197

    In the interest of justice, the court concluded that defendant was entitled to the appointment of counsel to assist her in connection with her motion for postconviction relief.

  • Neylon v. Zabel

    Publication Date: 2020-11-18
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Jurden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Hall, Phillips Goldman McLaughlin & Hall P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Gregory S. McKee, Katherine J. Sullivan, Wharton Levin Ehrmantrout & Klein, P.A., Wilmington, DE for de-fendants.

    Case Number: D69194

    Plaintiff's settlement agreement in a separate personal injury proceeding against another entity did not preclude her malpractice claims against defendants.