Filter This View

  • Ferrellgas Partners L.P. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-02
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brenton W. Vincent, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Chicago, IL; David J. Baldwin and Peter C. McGivney, Berger Harris, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Daniel McNeel Lane, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, San Antonio, TX; Samantha Miller, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Washington DC; Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley, LLC, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for defendant.
    Case Number: D69104

    Prior declaratory judgment directing insurer to pay insured's defense costs in underlying litigation did not obligate insured to subsequently seek a money judgment, and instead insured could submit invoices for review of reasonableness.

  • Manuel v. Wescott

    Publication Date: 2020-08-19
    Practice Area: Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karl Manuel, plaintiff pro se
    for defendant: Jennifer A. Sutton, Swartz Campbell LLC for defendant.
    Case Number: D69088

    Plaintiff's failure to produce expert opinion on causation required summary judgment dismissal of his negligence claim.

  • Ferrari v. Helmsman Mgmt. Servs., LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-07-08
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Construction | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Spadaro, John Sheehan Spadaro, LLC, Smyrna, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Timothy J. O’Driscoll and Frederick P. Marczyk, Faegre, Drinker, Biddle & Reathe, LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Joseph C. Schoell, Faeger, Drinker, Biddle & Reathe, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69040

    Injured worker could assert bad faith delay and denial claims against third-party administrator of workers' compensation benefits where TPA voluntarily assumed control over the provision of the worker's benefits.

  • Firmenich Inc. v. Natural Flavors, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-04-22
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alizia R. Karetnick, Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Brittany M. Giusini and Elizabeth A. Sloan, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Lisa Zwally Brown, Steven T. Margolin, and Samuel Moultrie, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason Kislin, and Matthew F. Bruno, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Florham Park, NJ for defendants Natural Flavors, Inc., Harris Stein, Herbert Stein and Jason Stein. Jeffrey W. Lorell, Nino A. Coviello, and Alex C. Banzhaf, Saiber, LLC, Florham Park, NJ, Paul Cottrell, and Melissa L. Rhoads, Tighe & Cottrell, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants Jocelyn Manship and Julie Weisman.
    Case Number: D68951

    Duplicative damages bar did not preclude plaintiff from pursuing breach of contract and fraudulent inducement claims in the alternative where plaintiff's claim for rescission damages sufficiently distinguished its legal theories to allow them to proceed in parallel.

  • Ferrellgas Partners L.P. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-05
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Energy | Insurance | Transportation
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brenton W. Vincent, Steven G. Trubac, and Bryan Cave Leighton, Paisner LLP, Chicago, IL; David J. Baldwin, Carla M. Jones, and Tracey E. Timlin, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Louis A. Bove, Bodell Bove, LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Bruce W. McCullough, Bodell Bove, LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant Zurich American Insurance Co. Neel Lane, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, San Antonio, TX; Samantha Miller, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Washington, DC; Thomas G. Macauley, Wilmington, DE for defendant Beazley Insurance Co.
    Case Number: D68864

    Run-off exclusion in insurance policy released insurer from duty to advance defense costs for litigation arising from wrongful acts and interrelated transactions that fell within the scope of the exclusion.

  • Law Journal Press | Digital Book

    New Jersey Estate Litigation 2014

    Authors: Michael R. Griffinger, Paul F. Cullum III

    View this Book

    View more book results for the query "*"

  • Baldwin v. New Castle County

    Publication Date: 2020-01-29
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emily Baldwin, pro se plaintiff
    for defendant: Nicholas J. Brannick and Jordan S. Perry, New Castle County Government Center, New Castle, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68854

    Plaintiff's conveyance of her property eliminated her standing to contest fines and liens imposed by the county on the property where such sums attached to the property and were not personal to plaintiff.

  • CSDCPC 920 French, LLC v. Christina Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-04
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. White, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David H. Williams, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D68792

    School district's decision not to grant school tax refund to entity afforded charitable tax exemption affirmed where voluntary payment of tax pending appeal meant there was no unconstitutional taking and where statutory scheme governing refund did not violate due process.

  • Gluhic-Popovic v. American Med. Sys.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-30
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Leoni, Shelsby & Leoni, Stanton, DE; Jeffrey Brinen, Kutner Brinen, P.C., Denver CO; Shanin Specter and Lee B. Balefsky, Kline & Specter, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian M. Rostocki, Stephen J. McConnell and Justin M. Forcier, Reed Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D68753

    Plaintiff had standing to file this products liability case even though she was a debtor in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding.

  • Collab9, LLC v. En Point Tech. Sales, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-10-02
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Consulting | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, and Christopher P. Quinn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., and Richard D. Robins and Gary Ganchrow, Parker, Milliken, Clark, O’Hara & Samualian, APC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Karen A. Jacobs, Susan W. Waesco, and Alexandra M. Cumming, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, and Jason R. Scherr, Joseph Bias, and Clara Kollm, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, and David M. Stein and Sara Kelly-Kilgore, Greenberg Gross LLP for defendants.
    Case Number: D68719

    Implied covenant and good faith and fair dealing claim and fraud claim dismissed where allegations in support of both claims were duplicative of plaintiff's breach of contract claim.

  • Conduent State Healthcare, LLC v. AIG Specialty Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-17
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robin L. Cohen and Keith McKenna, McKool Smith, P.C., New York, NY; Jennifer C. Wasson and Carla M. Jones, Potter, Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John L. Reed, Matthew Denn, and Harrison S. Carpenter, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE, Robert S. Harrell, Mayer Brown LLP, Houston, TX for defendants.
    Case Number: D68631

    Defendants obligated to provide defense costs following state attorney general's issuance of a civil investigative demand to defendants' insured because the demand involved an investigation into Medicaid fraud and constituted a "demand for non-monetary relief" under the terms of defendants' policies.