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  • State v. Gates

    Publication Date: 2019-07-17
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John J. Klusman and Kenneth L. Wan, Tybout Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for the state.
    for defendant: Walt F. Schmittinger and Candace E. Holmes, Schmittinger and Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE for claimant.
    Case Number: D68636

    The Industrial Accident Board applied the correct legal standard in determining that a claimant was within the course and scope of his employment at the time he was injured in a motor vehicle accident, and the board's decision was supported by sub-stantial evidence.

  • Henry v. Cincinnati Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-26
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan B. O'Neill and Jennifer D. Donnelly, Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O'Neill, P.A., Christiana, DE for plaintiff Henry.
    for defendant: Francis J. Jones, Jr. and Wilson A. Gualpa, Morris James LLP, Georgetown, DE for plaintiff Fritz. Krista E. Shevlin and William A. Crawford, Franklin & Prokopik, Newark, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68610

    The exclusivity provision of the Workers' Compensation Act did not prevent an employee who received workers' compensation benefits from also receiving underinsured motorist benefits under an employer's automobile liability policy which was purchased from a third-party insurance company.

  • Irwin v. Shelby

    Publication Date: 2019-05-22
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie B. Spoltore, Obermayer Maxwell Rebmann & Hippel LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Melissa L. Dill, Liguori & Morris, Dover, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D68468

    Family court did not err in awarding mother sole legal custody and primary residential placement, when neither parent requested such an arrangement, where the record supported the family court's rejection of father's expert's conclusions and reliance on father's history of domestic violence against mother to determine the custody award was in the parties' children's best interest.

  • Walker v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2019-03-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephanie Blaisdell, Assistant Public Defender, Dover, DE, for Kevin Walker.
    for defendant: John Williams, Deputy Attorney General, Dover, DE for the state.
    Case Number: D68454

    An administrative search did not comply with the basic procedure, so defendant was entitled to suppression of the evidence which resulted from that search.

  • Wong v. Broughton

    Publication Date: 2019-02-20
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua H. Meyeroff, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for Peter J. Wong, M.D. and Dedicated to Women OB-GYN, P.A.
    for defendant: Bruce L. Hudson and Ben T. Castle of Hudson & Castle Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE for Monica Brough-ton and Amari M. Broughton-Fleming.
    Case Number: D68470

    Expert medical testimony in this medical malpractice case did not rely on res ipsa loquitur and was properly admitted into evidence.

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  • Homeland Ins. Co. of New York v. Corvel Corp.

    Publication Date: 2018-12-05
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Newmann and Catherine E. Stetson, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, DC; Timothy Jay Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus and William E. Gamgort, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael J. Rosen and Peter F. Lovato, III, Skarzynski Black, LLC for appellant
    for defendant: John M. Seaman and April M. Kirby, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D68374

    Bad faith claim brought by insured barred by applicable statute of limitations where the claim accrued when insured settled a covered litigation and when insured knew insurer had made its alleged misrepresentation in prior litigation.

  • Daskin v. Knowles

    Publication Date: 2018-09-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gretchen S. Knight, Jill Spevack Di Sciullo and Leslie B. Spoltore for husband
    for defendant: Patricks J. Boyer and Marie I. Crossley for wife.
    Case Number: D68289

    The family court improperly denied husband's motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction due to factual issues regarding wife's domicile.

  • Norman v. All About Women, P.A.

    Publication Date: 2018-09-05
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Fletcher and Dianna E. Louder, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE, for plaintiff
    for defendant: Lauren C. McConnell and Gregory S. McKee, Wharton Levin Ehrmantraut & Klein, P.A., Wilmington, DE, for defendants.
    Case Number: D68277

    In this medical negligence matter, plaintiff's expert witness provided admissible testimony regarding the standard of care even without relying on medical literature or peer-reviewed publications.

  • Thompson v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2018-08-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Abby Adams for the state
    for defendant: Tasha M. Stevens for defendant.
    Case Number: D68244

    No violations of a criminal defendant's constitutional rights occurred in connection with his probation viola-tion hearing.

  • Sherman v. State of Delaware Dept. of Public Safety

    Publication Date: 2018-07-11
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edmund Daniel Lyons, Jr. for plaintiff
    for defendant: Lynn Kelly and Michael F. McTaggart for the state.
    Case Number: D68210

    As a matter of law, if a police officer made a valid arrest and then used that leverage to engage in sexual activ-ity with an arrestee, the officer's conduct did not need to fall within the scope of his employment to trigger em-ployer liability.