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  • Brisco v. Delaware State Police

    Publication Date: 2024-04-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Brisco, Smyrna, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: James H. McMacklin, III, Allyson G. Britton, Michelle G. Bounds, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: N23C-12-090 EMD

    News outlet's report that fairly summarized police arrest report was protected under the fair reporting privilege and not actionable in a defamation claim.

  • Chumash Capital Inv., LLC v. Grand Mesa Partners, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-04-22
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rennie
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Shannon, Christopher N. Kelly, Justin T. Hymes, Esquire, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; William C. O’Neil, Jeffrey J. Huelskamp, Gretchen Scavo, Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, IL; Marisa E. Witter, Winston & Strawn LLP, Houston, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Rudolf Koch, Travis S. Hunter, Alexander M. Krischik, Elizabeth J. Freud, Griffin A. Schoenbaum, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; James G. Sawtelle, Sherman & Howard L.L.C., Denver, CO; R. Montgomery Donaldson, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, Wilmington, DE; B. John Casey, Ryan H. Tamm, Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, OR for defendants.
    Case Number: N23C-07-209 SKR CCLD

    Court declined to dismiss fraud claims as untimely under contractual limitations period where the parties' contract expressly exempted fraud claims from the scope of the contractual indemnity provisions containing the survival clauses.

  • Nivagen Pharm., Inc. v. Hikma Pharm USA Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-22
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Medinilla
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Sensing, Andrew M. Moshos, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Dominick T. Gattuso, Elizabeth A. DeFelice, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: N23C-09-062 VLM CCLD

    Tortious interference claim against parent corporation failed where plaintiff failed to allege facts supporting an inference that parent acted to maliciously harm plaintiff or was knowingly acting outside its subsidiary's economic interests.

  • Travelers Cas. & Surety Co. of Am. v. Blackbaud, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: E-Commerce | Insurance | Non-Profit
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade A. Adams, Law Offices of Wade A. Adams, III, Newark, DE; Kenneth T. Levine, de Luca Levine LLC, East Norriton, PA; Lisa C. McLaughlin, Todd L. Goodman, Phillips, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: John P. DiTomo, Emily C. Friedman, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sarah Fulton Hutchins, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, NC; Corri A. Hopkins, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Raleigh, NC for defendant.
    Case Number: N22C-12-130 KMM

    Insurers' subrogation action failed where they failed to identify specific contractual provisions or common law duties of care that were breached by hosting company that suffered a data breach.

  • Irfan v. Unemployment Ins. Appeal Bd.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Consulting
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Muhammad Irfan, Middleton, DE, pro se appellant
    for defendant: Matthew B. Frawley, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Victoria W. Counihan, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: N23A-05-009 MMJ

    Claimant was ineligible for unemployment benefits where he was the sole owner of a business and his main priority was to secure new clients for the company.

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  • Agahi v. Kelly

    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: N23C-07-144 MAA CCLD

    Complaint seeking payment of settlement consideration was an action at law rather than a request for specific performance, meaning jurisdiction was proper in the superior court rather than the chancery court.

  • Trincia v. Dick's Sporting Goods

    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emily Laursen Raisis, Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O’Neill, P.A., Christiana, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Maria Paris Newill, Heckler & Frabizzio, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: N23A-03-006 MMJ

    Industrial Accident Board did not err in denying claimant's motion to strike portions of employer's expert's testimony based on newly obtained medical records where claimant knew about her prior medical records and thus employer was not at fault for the fact that claimant's expert did not possess those records to offer testimony.

  • McDaniel-Wesche v. Sun Behavioral Health

    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan B. O’Neill, Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O’Neill, P.A., Christiana, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas E. Bittner, Heckler & Frabizzio, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A-03-002 CAK

    Industrial Accident Board properly denied claim of permanent impairment based on credibility determination, as claimant failed to seek prompt diagnostic testing or treatment following a work incident and did not disclose an intervening motor vehicle accident to her medical providers and evaluators, and employer's medical expert credibly testified as to the lack of permanent impairment.

  • Bowers v. Delaware Real Estate Comm'n

    Publication Date: 2024-03-11
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Winston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Rhodunda, Jr., Nicholas G. Kondraschow, Rhodunda, Williams & Kondraschow for appellant.
    for defendant: A. Zachary Naylor, Delaware Department of Justice for appellee.
    Case Number: N23A-04-002 PAW

    Court remanded revocation of real estate license where commission concededly deprived licensee of due process by denying him the opportunity to speak and prohibiting his counsel from reading his prepared statement, after allowing the state to provide statements and comments.

  • Trott v. Bayhealth Med. Ctr., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-04
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lugg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Mongeluzzi, Joseph DeAngelo, Barrett DeAngelo, LLC, West Chester, PA; Linda Malkin, Kimmel Carter Roman Peltz & O’Neil, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joseph Drnec, Phillip Casale, Wharton Levin Ehrmantraut & Klein, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Bradley Goewert, Thomas Marcoz, Marshall Dennehey, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: N20C-09-182 SPL

    Although expert testimony established nurses' deviation from the applicable standards of care, they were entitled to summary judgment when plaintiff's experts could not opine with reasonable medical certainty that their deviation proximately caused plaintiff's injury.