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Publication Date: 2024-11-19
Practice Area: Insurance Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam F. Wasserman, Ciconte Wasserman & Scerba, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: Cynthia G. Beam, Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 431, 2023
State insurance law limiting coverage from multiple separate policies issued by the same insurer to two or more members of the same household to the highest limit of liability did not preclude stacking of uninsured motorist coverage where each household member's policy expressly permitted stacking, making the stacked coverage the highest limit.
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Electronics | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Brauerman, Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Ned Weinberger, Mark Richardson, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Domenico Minerva, Joseph Cotilletta, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; David M. Cooper, Silpa Maruri, George T. Phillips, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; William R. Sears, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Chad Johnson, Noam Mandel, Desiree Cummings, Robert Gerson, Jonathan Zweig, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy S. Friedman, David F.E. Tejtel, Christopher M. Windover, Lindsay La Marca, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY for appellee.
Case Number: 349, 2023
Court upheld counsel fee of 26 percent of $1 billion settlement where Delaware disfavored per se rules governing reasonableness of fee awards and chancery court adequately explained the reasonable value of the award.
Publication Date: 2024-07-23
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Seaman, Eliezer Y. Feinstein, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Teresa Goody Guillén, Richard Raile, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Washington, DC; Marco Molina, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Costa Mesa, CA; Alexandra L. Trujillo, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Houston, TX for appellant.
for defendant: William R. Denny, Matthew F. Davis, Nicholas D. Mozal, Caneel Radinson-Blasucci, Eric J. Nascone, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stefan Atkinson, Mary T. Reale, Mason E. Reynolds, Joseph Taglienti, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY; Michael F. Williams, Don Hong, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington DC for appellees.
Case Number: 3, 2024
Court refused to enforce facially valid amended bylaws where board adopted them primarily to thwart stockholders' efforts to nominate opposing candidates to board.
Publication Date: 2024-04-15
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, J. Clayton Athey, Corinne Elise Amato, Kevin H. Davenport, Stacey A. Greenspan, Jason W. Rigby, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lee D. Rudy, Eric L. Zagar, J. Daniel Albert, Maria T. Starling, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA; Robert D. Klausner, Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson, Plantation, FL for appellants.
for defendant: William M. Lafferty, John P. DiTomo, Elizabeth A. Mullin, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Theodore N. Mirvis, Jonathan M. Moses, Ryan A. McLeod, Alexandra P. Sadinsky, Canem Ozyildirim, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY; Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew W. Murphy, Sandy Xu, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Maeve O’Connor, Susan R. Gittes, Amy C. Zimmerman, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY; David E. Ross, Adam D. Gold, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joshua G. Hamilton, Meryn C.N. Grant, Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Blair Connelly, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY; Michele D. Johnson, Latham & Watkins LLP, Costa Mesa, CA for appellees.
Case Number: 368, 2022
Chancery court erroneously applied business judgment rule to review transaction where controlling stockholder stood on both sides and received a non-ratable benefit where not all members of the company's separation committee were independent from the controller.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory V. Varallo, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark Lebovitch, Edward G. Timlin, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
for defendant: William B. Chandler III, Brad D. Sorrels, Amy L. Simmerman, Daniyal M. Iqbal, Nora M. Crawford, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Mark R. Yohalem, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Los Angeles, CA; William M. Lafferty, Susan W. Waesco, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 2022-1007
Ability to sue corporate officers for fiduciary violations was not a "power, preference, or special right" of a class of stock and thus a proposed amendment to add an officer exculpation clause did not require a separate class vote under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
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Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Construction | Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew J. Rifino, Kate R. Buck, Shannon D. Humiston, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: Colin M. Shalk, Kenneth M. Doss, Casarino Christman Shalk Ransom & Doss, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 94, 2023
Trial court properly granted remittitur where jury verdict including inflated repair costs was based on testimony from witnesses unqualified to testify about inflation and increased expenses.
Publication Date: 2023-09-25
Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Hanson, Jr., William J. Burton, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; Lilit Asadourian, Alice Kyureghian, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Aaron D. Lindstrom, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Grand Rapids, MI, for plaintiff below, appellee and cross-appellant.
for defendant: John L. Reed, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; David Newmann, Courtney Devon Taylor, Victoria A. Joseph, Brittany Armour, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Robert J. Katzenstein, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant below, appellant and cross-appellee.
Case Number: 360, 2022
Ruling that appellee's alleged violation of the False Claims Act arose out of false certifications that the loans it endorsed were eligible for government insurance, not the professional services it provided to borrowers through mortgage banking, mortgage underwriting, and loan servicing; the court concluded that the FCA charges and eventual settlement did not fall within the professional services exclusion in appellant's management liability policy.
Publication Date: 2023-07-31
Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
Industry: Insurance
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer A. Sutton, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Wade A. Adams, III, Marissa D. White, Law Offices of Wade A. Adams, III, Newark, DE for appellees.
Case Number: S21C-08-013
Superior Court correctly applied Sutton rule to bar landlord's insurer from pursuing subrogation against tenants who negligently damaged the property, where the lease contained no provision demonstrating that the landlord and tenant expressly intended for the tenant to obtain their own insurance or to be barred from coverage under the landlord's policy.
Publication Date: 2023-07-10
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Max B. Walton, Kyle Evans Gay, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Newark, DE; Michael K. Ross, Serine Consolino, Aegis Law Group LLP, Washington, DC for appellant.
for defendant: Deborah B. Baum, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Washington, DC; Stephen B. Brauerman, Elizabeth A. Powers, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 163, 2022
Stock issuance that diluted interest of stockholder with one-half interest who had filed a custodian action to break board election deadlock was not inequitable where issuance was reasonably calculated to prevent default under company's key contracts and had the benefit of retaining a key employee, while stockholder was not coerced as she retained a swing vote.
Publication Date: 2023-06-06
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: Automotive | Retail | State and Local Government
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly E. Farnan, Tyler E. Cragg, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Felicia H. Ellsworth, Sofie C. Brooks, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA; Ari Holtzblatt, Leon T. Kenworthy, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C. for appellant.
for defendant: George T. Lees III, Delaware Department of Transportation, Dover, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 375, 2022
DMV erred in interpreting Franchise Act to include a ban on the direct sales model, and vehicle manufacturer with no third-party dealers did not qualify as a "manufacturer" under the Act's definition.
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