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  • Evanston Ins. Co. v. Sea Light Design-Build, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-04-04
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Construction | Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Joseph Hrubiec, McGivney, Kluger, Clark & Intoccia, P.C., Wilmington, DE; April T. Villaverde, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Edison, NJ for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Danielle K. Yearick, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: 1:20-cv-01685-SB

    Where injured worker's complaint supported inference that he was either working for defendant as an employee or subcontractor, plaintiff insurer owed no duty to provide coverage to defendant for the worker's injury lawsuit pursuant to the policy's employee/subcontractor exclusions.

  • Talley v. Gen. Motors, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-03-28
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell D. Paul, Amey J. Park, Abigail J. Gertner, Berger Montague PC, Philadelphia, PA; Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein, & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tarek H. Zohdy, Cody R. Padgett, Laura E. Goolsby, Capstone Law APC, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jody C. Barillare, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Oderah C. Nwaeze, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Christine W. Chen, Crystal Nix-Hines, Shon Morgan, Meredith R. Mandell, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant.
    Case Number: D70179

    Court declined to certify interlocutory appeal of dismissal of certain claims where an appeal would not materially advance litigation of the surviving claims and continued litigation would uncover evidence relevant to the dismissed claims.

  • Stokes v. Markel Am. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-21
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Mccauley, Daniel H. Wooster, Palmer, Biezup & Henderson, Wilmington, DE; David A. Neblett, James M. Mahaffey, John A. Wynn, Perry & Neblett, Miami, FL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daryll Hawthorne-Bernardo, Timothy S. Martin, White & Williams, Wilmington, DE; Krista Acuna, Hamilton, Miller & Birthisel, Miami, FL for defendant.
    Case Number: 1:19-cv-02014-SB-MPT

    The court granted a motion to dismiss on the grounds that plaintiff insured failed to set forth feasible claims sounding in breach of contract and conversion in a matter arising out of defendant's refusal to completely cover the loss of plaintiff's speedboat.

  • White Winston Select Asset Funds, LLC v. Good Times Rests, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-02-21
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Alan Barkasy, Stephen A. Fogdall, Kristi JoLynn Doughty, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Catherine A. Gaul, Michael Dean Walker, Jr., Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Davis G. Mosmeyer III, Peter L. Loh, Sara A. Brown, Foley & Lardner LLP, Dallas, TX for defendant.
    Case Number: 19-cv-02092-SB

    Breach of duty to negotiate in good faith claim rejected where parties' non-binding letter of intent let seller walk away for any reason and seller continued to pursue the transaction up until new financial performance data motivated seller to ask for higher price, where the evidence showed that seller would have consummated the transaction at that higher price.

  • Estate of Berland v. Lavastone Capital, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-11-01
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel R. Miller, Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Daniel A. Cohen, Jim Walden, Tricia R. Lyons, Walden Macht & Haran LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Megan Ward Cascio, Sabrina M. Hendershot, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Julius A. Rousseau, III, Andrew Dykens, ArentFox Schiff LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: 1:18-cv-02002-SB

    Estate could recover death benefit from a stranger-oriented life insurance policy taken out on the life of decedent where the policy was funded by a non-recourse loan, decedent had no need for life insurance and procured the policy as a wagering contract, and the recipient of the benefit was knowingly involved in the fraud to procure the policy.

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  • Archer v. Defenders, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Practice Area: Labor Law
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    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Seth Rigrodsky, Herbert W. Mondros, Rigrodsky Law P.A., Wilmington, DE; Eyal Dror, Shelly L. Friedland, Ted E. Trief, Trief & Olk, New York, NY; Macy D. Hanson, The Law Office of Macy D. Hanson PLLC, Madison, MS; Peter S. Pearlman, Cohn, Lifland, Pearlman, Herrman, & Knopf LLP, Saddle Brook, NJ for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: J. Cory Falgowski, H. Carlton Hilson, Kristin Bryance Metheny, Ronald W. Flowers, Burr & Forman LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: 1:18-cv-00470-SB

    Court affirmed Fair Labor Standards Act settlement that provided significant legal fees where counsel recovered more than plaintiffs because the length and complexity of the litigation justified the legal fees.

  • Goddess Approved Prod., LLC v. Wolox

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David W. deBruin, Napoli Shkolnik, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jeremy D. Anderson, Fish & Richardson P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 20-cv-1697-SB

    Plaintiff plausibly alleged breach of contract where parties' statement of work required defendant to deliver functional prototypes of mobile applications, and there was no evidence defendant ever delivered a functional prototype.

  • Design With Friends, Inc. v. Target Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-11
    Practice Area: Copyrights
    Industry: Retail | Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas Daniel Herrmann, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ben L. Wagner, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, San Diego, CA; Lindsay Mitchell Henner, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Atlanta, GA; Howard Wisnia, Wisnia PC, San Diego, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Martina Tyreus Hufnal, Fish & Richardson P.C., Wilmington, DE; Kristen McCallion, Vivian Cheng, Fish & Richardson P.C., New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: 1:21-cv-01376-SB

    Court declined to dismiss copyright infringement claim arising from alleged copying of the computer code for plaintiff's online program where plaintiff plausibly alleged that defendant copied the code to reverse engineer its own version of the program.

  • Verint Americas Inc. v. Fornell

    Publication Date: 2022-09-20
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Consulting
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian P. Egan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Margaret M. DiBianca, Jay M. Berger, K.J. Edward Fornell, William D. Cramer, Clark Hill PLC, Wilmington, DE; Sally J. Daugherty, Salmon, Ricchezza, Singer & Turchi, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 1:21-cv-00674-SB-SRF

    Court requested that the magistrate judge reconsider a motion to dismiss, transfer, and stay a case where the magistrate judge had ruled that the first-filed rule applied.

  • Miller v. Del-One Fed. Credit Union

    Publication Date: 2022-08-09
    Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David W. deBruin, Napoli Shkolnik LLC, Wilmington, DE; Elaine S. Kusel, Sherief Morsy, McCune Wright Arevalo, LLP, Newark, NJ for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Loren R. Barron, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69913

    Bank violated federal regulations governing overdraft policy notices where bank used template language in the regulation, which may not accurately describe bank's specific overdraft policy.