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  • State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. v. Spine Care Delaware, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-09-23
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Spadaro, John Sheehan Spadaro, LLC, Smyrna, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Colin M. Shalk, Casarino Christman Shalk Ransom & Doss, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kyle G.A. Wallace, Gavin Reinke, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA for defendants.
    Case Number: D69132

    The Delaware Supreme Court held the lower court erred in holding that an insurer had the burden of proof with respect to the reasonableness of reductions in the amounts charged by a medical provider.

  • Pfizer Inc. v. U.S. Specialty Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-16
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth J. Nachbar, John P. DiTomo and Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robin L. Cohen, Adam S. Ziffer and Marc T. Ladd, McKool Smith, P.C., New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Carmella P. Keener, Cooch & Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey J. Ward, Dykema Gossett PLLC, Washington, DC for defendant.
    Case Number: D69124

    The court granted a motion for summary judgment in favor of an insured in this case involving excess coverage.

  • 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.

  • Oyola v. 21st Century Centennial Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-12
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Jurden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine Hemming and William R. Stewart, III, Weik, Nitsche & Dougherty, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Tracy A. Burleigh, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69082

    Plaintiff did not comply with a condition precedent under his insurance policy, so he was unable to establish that defendant insurer breached the parties' agreement.

  • Griffy v. USAA Cas. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-29
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Spadaro, John Sheehan Sparadro, LLC, Smyrna, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Lisa Z. Brown, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69063

    Court dismissed claim where plaintiff was seeking a declaratory ruling on how an insurer would hypothetically pay out statutory interest on a claim for PIP benefits, meaning there was no live controversy between the parties.

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  • Athene Life & Annuity Co. v. Am. Gen. Life Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-03
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin S. Lessner, Richard J. Thomas, and M. Paige Valeski, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; James P. Gillespie and Dustin Hillsley, Kirkland& Ellis LLP, New York, NY; Adam T. Humann, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff Athene. Brian C. Ralston, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs American Investors and Indianapolis Life.
    for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar and Sabrina M. Hendershot, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant American Life. Joel Friedlander and Christopher P. Quinn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A, Wilmington, DE; John L. Jacobus, J. Walker Johnson, Catherine D. Cockerham, and William Carson, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, DC; Jeffrey B. Korn and Stuart R. Lombardi, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Washington, DC; Joseph G. Davis, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for defendants ZC Resource Investment Trust and ZC Resource LLC.
    Case Number: D68999

    Breach of contract and tortious interference claims arising from alleged rights to surrender or reallocation value from corporate-owned life insurance policies were dismissed as unripe where the policyholder had made no effort to surrender or reallocate.

  • First State Orthopaedics v. Employers Ins. Co. of Wausau

    Publication Date: 2020-05-27
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Spandaro, John Sheehan Spadaro, LLC, Smyrna, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kevin J. Connors, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; D. Andrew Hatchett, Tiffany Powers and Robert Poole, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA for defendants.
    Case Number: D68994

    Defendants' voluntary cessation of a business practice did not cause the parties' controversy to become moot, because defendants left open the possibility of returning to that practice in the future.

  • Monzo v. Nationwide Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-04-01
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Primos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dana Spring Monzo and Eric J. Monzo, pro se plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Louis J. Rizzo, Jr. and Paul D. Sunshine, Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP for defendant.
    Case Number: D68927

    Homeowners not entitled to insurance coverage for property damage caused by a rainstorm where "scouring" and "debris from trees" found by the parties' engineers to have caused the damage fell within the homeowners' policy's exclusions for "earth movement" and "water-borne material."

  • 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.

  • In re Verizon Ins. Coverage Appeals

    Publication Date: 2019-11-13
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robin L. Cohen, Keith McKenna and Michelle R. Migdon, McKool Smith P.C., Washington, DC for plaintiffs Verizon Commu-nications Inc, Verizon Fin. Serv. and GTE Corp.
    for defendant: Kurt M Heyman and Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman, Enerio, Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, James W. Thomas, Jr., William C. Perdue and Robert Reeves Anderson, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC and Den-ver, CO for defendants Illinois Nat’l Ins. Co. and Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co. Bruce W. McCullough of Bodell Bové, LLC, Wilming-ton, DE; Ronald P. Schiller, Daniel J. Layden and Jason A. Levine, Hangley, Aronchick, Segal, Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia, PA for defendant Zurich American Ins. Co. John C. Phillips, Jr and David A. Bilson, Phillips, Goldman, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph A. Bailey III, Clyde & Co. US LLP, Washington, DC for defendant U.S. Specialty Ins. Co. Jennifer C. Wasson and Carla M. Jones of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE
    Case Number: D68772

    An insured was not entitled to recover defense costs from the insurers, because the litigation in question did not include any "securities claims" as defined by the policies.