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  • Goggin v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA

    Publication Date: 2018-12-12
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance | Insurance Law
    Industry: Energy | Mining and Resources
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Baldwin and Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Seth B. Schafler and Seth D. Fiur, Proskauer Rose, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Seth A. Niederman, Fox Rothschild, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph Collins, Fox Rothschild, LLP, Chicago, IL for defendant.
    Case Number: D68383

    Exclusionary clause of Directors & Officers insurance policy applied where claims against former directors would not have arisen but for their formation and use of investment vehicles, of which they were managers/members, to enrich themselves at the expense of the corporation for which they were directors and the corporation's creditors.

  • The GWO Litig. Trust v. Sprint Solutions, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-11-07
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Trade Secrets
    Industry: Retail | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Beck, Sean M. Brennecke, Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; John D. Byars, Joseph C. Smith, Jr., Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Chicago, IL, attorneys for plaintiff
    for defendant: Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; David I. Swan, Brian A. Kahn, McGuire Woods LLP, Charlotte, NC, attorneys for defendant and third-party plaintiff.
    Case Number: D68347

    Plaintiff adequately stated claims for trade secret violations and interference with prospective business rela-tions, but its conversion and unfair competition claims were duplicative of the contract claims.

  • State of Delaware ex rel. French v. Card Complaint, LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-09-12
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Retail | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Brown, Edward K. Black and Stephen G. MacDonald for the state
    for defendant: Stuart M. Grant, Mary S. Thomas, Laina M. Herbert and Vivek Upadhya for relator French; Stephen E. Jenkins, Catherine A. Gaul, Richard M. Zuckerman, Sean Cenawood, Kiran Patel and Catharine Luo for Card Compliant defendants; Kenneth J. Nachbar, Michael Houghton, Matthew R. Clark, Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Ethan D. Millar, J. Andrew Howard, William R. Mitchelson, Jr., Jason D. Popp, Colm F. Connolly, Jody C. Barillare, Gregory T. Parks, Ezra D. Church, Courtney McCormick, David S. Eagle, Mi-chael W. Yurkewicz, Martin I. Einstein, David Swetnam-Burland, Stacy O.Stitham, Brian M. Rostocki, Benjamin P. Chapple, Michael J. Wynne, David A. Rammelt, Brian E. Farnan, Shawn J. Organ and Josh-ua M. Feasel for additional defendants.
    Case Number: D68285

    Factual issues prevented summary judgment in this false claims matter, and defendants failed to establish ex-traordinary circumstances for disregarding the law of the case.

  • Catlin Specialty Ins. Co. v. CBL & Assocs. Props., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-22
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Construction | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emily K. Silverstein, Marks, O'Neill, O'Brien, Doherty & Kelly P.C., Wilmington, DE; Louis H. Kozloff, Goldberg Segalla LLP, Philadelphia, PA, attorneys for plaintiff
    for defendant: John A. Sensing, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alan E. Popkin, David W. Sobelman, and Melissa Z. Baris, Husch Blackwell LLP, St. Louis, MO, attorneys for defendants.
    Case Number: D68254

    Insurer entitled to reimbursement of defense costs under a reservation of rights following judicial determination insurer had no duty to defend where insured's acceptance of defense under reservation created quasi-contract and entitled insurer to reimbursement under a theory of unjust enrichment.

  • Bellmoff v. Integra Servs. Techs., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-04
    Practice Area: Contracts | Fee Disputes
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Todd C. Schlitz and Stephen S. Herst, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Garvan F. McDaniel, Hogan McDaniel, Wilmington, DE; Ronald R. Rossi, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, New York, NY, attorneys for defendant.
    Case Number: D68199

    Court could not compare parties' legal bills in determining reasonableness of prevailing party's request for attorney's fees, but instead determined whether services rendered were reasonable and prudent in the professional good faith judgment of counsel.

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  • Vinton v. Grayson

    Publication Date: 2018-06-27
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David B. Anthony and Sean A. Meluney for plaintiff
    for defendant: Neil R. Lapinski for defendant.
    Case Number: D68197

    The operating agreement of a limited liability company required members to make additional capital contribu-tions at the manager's discretion, and other members had standing to sue a member who failed to respond to a capital call.

  • 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.

  • State ex rel. French v. Card Complaint, LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-05-16
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Contracts
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Brown, Edward K. Black and Stephen G. MacDonald for the state
    for defendant: Stuart M. Grant, Mary S. Thomas, Laina M. Herbert and Vivek Upadhya for relator French; Stephen E. Jenkins, Catherine A. Gaul, Richard M. Zuckerman, Sean Cenawood, Kiran Patel and Catharine Luo for Card Compliant defendants; Kenneth J. Na-chbar, Michael Houghton, Matthew R. Clark, Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Ethan D. Millar, J. Andrew Howard, William R. Mitchel-son, Jr., Jason D. Popp, Colm F. Connolly, Jody C. Barillare, Gregory T. Parks, Courtney McCormick, David S. Eagle, Michael W. Yurkewicz, Martin I. Einstein, David Swetnam-Burland, Stacy O.Stitham, Brian M. Rostocki, Benjamin P. Chapple, Mi-chael J. Wynne, David A. Rammelt, Brian E. Farnan, Shawn J. Organ and Joshua M. Feasel for additional defendants.
    Case Number: D68148

    Factual issues prevented summary judgment in this false claims matter, and defendants failed to establish extraordinary circumstances for disregarding the law of the case.

  • Otto Candies, LLC v. KPMG LLP

    Publication Date: 2018-05-09
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Civil Procedure
    Industry: Accounting | Energy
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Ross, Terry L. Wit, A. William Urquhart and Derek L. Shaffer for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Timothy J. Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, William E. Gamgort, John K. Villa and Ana C. Reyes for KPMG Int'l Coop.; Todd C. Schlitz, Robert A. Scher, Jonathan H. Friedman, Christopher M. Cutler and Lori A. Rubin for KPMG LLP; Kevin R. Shannon, Matthew F. Davis, Christopher N. Kelly, Jack B. Jacobs, Michael C. Kelley, Jose F. Sanchez and Gregory G. Ballard for KPMG Cárdenas Dosal, S.C.
    Case Number: D68137

    The Court of Chancery had exclusive jurisdiction over negligent misrepresentation claims.

  • State of Delaware v. Madison

    Publication Date: 2018-05-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karin M. Volker for the state
    for defendant: Christopher S. Koyste for defendant.
    Case Number: D68124

    Defendant neither met his burden of showing objective unreasonableness on the part of his trial counsel, nor any prejudice as the result of his trial counsels conduct.