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  • Viking Pump, Inc. v. Century Indem. Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-06-06
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Baldwin, Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Robin L. Cohen and Keith McKenna for Warren Pumps LLC
    for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Garrett B. Moritz, Tancred Schiavoni, Gary Svirsky, John D. Balaguer, Brian G. Fox, Lawrence A. Na-thanson, Anthony G. Flynn, Timothy Jay Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Larua S. McKay, Thaddeus J. Weaver, James W. Semple, C. Scott Reese and Kristin Suga Heres for excess insurers.
    Case Number: D68172

    An insured was not entitled to set a judgment amount or recover prejudgment interest against an insurer where the complaint sought only declaratory relief.

  • Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. American Indep. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-05-30
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: D68161

    An insurance company was not entitled to rely on the savings clause to permit a late-filed appeal of an arbitra-tion decision.

  • WoodSpring Hotels LLC v. Natl Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA

    Publication Date: 2018-05-16
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Kenneth H. Frenchman and Denise N. Yasinow for plaintiff
    for defendant: Seth Niederman and Joseph Collins for defendant.
    Case Number: D68149

    An insurer was not entitled to avoid its duty to defend based on a policy exclusion regarding trade secrets, because at least one claim in the underlying litigation did not involve trade secrets.

  • Green v. GEICO Gen. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-05-09
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard H. Cross, Jr., Christopher P. Simon, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Paul A. Bradley, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy, LLC, Wilmington, DE; George M. Church, Miles & Stockbridge, PC, Baltimore, MD; Meloney Perry, Perry Law, PC, Dallas, TX, attorneys for defendant.
    Case Number: D68135

    Motion to dismiss putative class action denied where court could not definitively determine that plaintiffs could not establish damage calculation method that would predominate over proposed class.

  • Lincoln Benefit Life Co. v. Wilmington Trust, N.A.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-18
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph C. Schoell, Jason P. Gosselin, Katherine L. Villaneuva and Christopher F. Petrillo for plaintiff
    for defendant: Steven L. Caponi for defendant.
    Case Number: D68113

    Defendant failed to establish overwhelming hardship or other justification for depriving plaintiff of its chosen forum in this insurance matter.

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  • Arch Ins. Co. v. Murdock

    Publication Date: 2018-03-14
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance | Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Katzenstein and Kathleen M. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael R. Goodstein, Bailey Cavalieri LLC, Columbus, OH; Merril Hirsh, Troutman Sanders LLP, Washington, DC; Michael L. Manire and Deanna M. Galla, Manire & Galla LLP, New York, NY; Robert P. Conlon and Kevin A. Lahm, Walker Wilcoz Matousek LLP, Chicago, IL; Ommid C. Farashahi, Michael T. Skoglund, and Nicholas R. Novak, BatesCarey LLP, Chicago, IL, attorneys for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Elena C. Norman and Mary F. Dugan, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kirk A. Pasich and Pamela Wood, Pasich LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Mikaela Whitman, Pasich LLP, New York, NY , attorneys for defendants.
    Case Number: D68070

    Insurers denied summary judgment on their declaratory judgment action where Delaware law did not preclude insurance from indemnifying directors for breaches of loyalty by fraud.

  • Hilarie v. Lankford

    Publication Date: 2018-02-21
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith E. Donovan and Reneta L. Green-Streett, Morris James LLP, Dover, DE, attorneys for plaintiff
    for defendant: David C. Malatesta, Kent & McBride, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Margaret Fonshell Ward, Ward & Herzog, LLC, Baltimore, MD, attorneys for defendants.
    Case Number: D68047

    Assignees of tortfeasors umbrella policy, and plaintiffs in the underlying tort action, were obligated to credit the shortfall between the tortfeasors underlying insurance policy and the minimum coverage amount for an underlying policy required by the umbrella policy out of any recovery in the underlying tort action.

  • Homa v. Chalme

    Publication Date: 2018-02-21
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Beverly L. Bove an Vincent J. X. Hedrick, Beverley L. Bove Attorney at Law, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for plaintiff
    for defendant: Beth H. Christman, Casario, Christman, Shalk, Ranson & Doss, P.A., Wilmington, DE, attorney for defendant.
    Case Number: D68048

    Underinsured motorist coverage was merely an expansion of uninsured motorist coverage, and did not constitute a distinct limit of coverage that permitted separate claims for an accident involving underinsured and uninsured motorists.

  • AIU Ins. Co. v. Philips Elec. N. Am. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-24
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Toxic Torts
    Industry: Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Slights
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marc S. Casarino, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE; John S. Favate, Hardin Kundla McKeon & Poletto, P.A., Springfield, NJ, attorneys for plaintiffs
    for defendant: David J. Baldwin, Jennifer C. Wasson, and Andrew H. Sauder, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kenneth H. Frenchman, McKool Smith, P.C., New York, NY; Daniel K. Hogan and Garvan F. McDaniel, Hogan McDaniel, Wilmington, DE; Sander L. Esserman, Steven A. Felsenthal, and David A. Klinger, Stutzman, Bromberg, Esserman & Plifka, Dallas, TX, attorneys for defendants.
    Case Number: D68014

    Plaintiffs not entitled to summary judgment for claim for breach of audit rights, where operative agreement failed to define scope of audit or describe types of information to be disclosed in an audit.

  • State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Lambert

    Publication Date: 2017-12-06
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Insurance | Real Estate
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph J. Bellew and Michael D. O'Donnell for plaintiff
    for defendant: Eileen M. Ford for defendant.
    Case Number: D67962

    Where a residential lease did not contain a provision expressly stating that the tenant would be responsible for damage re-sulting from negligently-caused fires on the premises, the insurer was not entitled to recover against the tenant in a subrogation action.