• LCT Capital, LLC v. NGL Energy Partners LP

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Reed, Daniel P. Klusman, Peter H. Kyle, DLA Piper, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael D. Hynes, Emma Kramer Jones, DLA Piper, New York, NY; Benjamin D. Schuman, Ellen E. Dew, DLA Piper, LLP, Baltimore, MD for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven T. Margolin, Lisa Z. Brown, Samuel L. Moultrie, Bryan T. Reed, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Wilmington, DE; Hal S. Shaftel, Daniel Friedman, Greenberg Traurig LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: N15C-08-109 JJC CCLD

    Court declined to award prevailing plaintiff reimbursement of special discovery master and mediation fees where such fees fell within the category of pre-trial costs that each party was expected to bear on its own, as there was no evidence that defendant acted in bad faith or engaged in litigation misconduct.

  • Moyer v. Am. Zurich Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-12
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip T. Edwards, Murphy & Landon, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Bruce W. McCullough, Bodell Bove, LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69393

    The court denied an insurer's motion for partial summary judgment regarding punitive damages because the injured party presented sufficient facts to permit a jury to find recklessness.

  • Powell v. AmGuard Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-03-18
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Spadaro of John Sheehan Spadaro, LLC, Smyrna, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Thaddeus J. Weaver, Dilworth Paxson, LLP, Wilmington, DE; John D. Balaguer, White & Williams, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ed-ward M. Koch, White & Williams, LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: D68914

    The jury's verdict of $500,000 in punitive damages shocked the conscience because it was so disproportionate to the compen-satory damages. The court granted defendant's motion for a new trial on the issues of both liability and damages, because plain-tiff's counsel made inflammatory remarks during closing argument which likely prejudiced the jury.

  • Duncan v. STTCPL, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-03-04
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Gallagher, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Mark F. Dunkle, Elio Battista, and Kyle F. Dunkle, Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants Service Energy, LLC and STTCPL, LLC; Kevin J. Connors, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for defendant Coastal Pump and Tank, Inc.

    Case Number: D68896

    Gas station owner was bound to environmental contamination settlement agreement where owner failed to present evidence that any new contamination arose as a result of tenant's activities.

  • Holben v. Pepsi Bottling Ventures, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-11-20
    Practice Area: Fee Disputes
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walt F. Schmittinger and Candace E. Holmes, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert S. Hunt, Franklin & Prokopik, Wilmington, DE, attorney for appellee.

    Case Number: D68774

    The Industrial Accident Board erred in awarding attorneys' fees that exceeded 30 percent of the amount on an "issue" in which a claimant obtained a recovery greater than that offered by the employer prior to hearing.

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  • Powell v. AmGuard Ins Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-02
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Construction | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Spadaro ,John Sheehan Spadaro, LLC, Smyrna, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Thaddeus J. Weaver, Dilworth Paxson, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68724

    The court denied an insurer's motion for summary judgment, because factual issues existed regarding whether the insurer act-ed recklessly and in bad faith.

  • Robinson v. Union Carbide Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-28
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Distribution and Wholesale | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick J. Smith, Balick & Balick, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joseph S. Naylor, Swartz Campbell, LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68684

    In this asbestos litigation, the manufacturer of a bulk product complied with its duty to warn.

  • State of Delaware, Dep't of Natural Res. & Envtl. Control v. McGinnis Auto & Mobile Home Salvage, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-03-06
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph K. Durstein, III, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover, DE for the state.
    for defendant: John W. Paradee, Daniel F. McAllister and Stephen A. Spence, Baird, Mandalas, Brockstedt, LLC, Do-ver, DE for McGinnis Auto & Mobile Home Salvage, Inc.

    Case Number: D68452

    An agency exceeded its statutory authority when it issued a cease and desist order which purported to man-date corrective action.

  • Booth v. Garvin

    Publication Date: 2019-02-20
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Environmental Law
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher M. Coggins, Coggins Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: Robert F. Phillips, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, New Castle, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: D68462

    Environmental Appeals Board correctly dismissed an appeal from an oral statement of the secretary of Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Control where such statement merely stated DNREC's litigation position and did not constitute an appealable final agency action and where the appeal was patently untimely.

  • Taplin v. Schuitemaker

    Publication Date: 2019-01-23
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary E. Junge, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, Dover, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul G. Enterline, Georgetown, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D68432

    Trial court erroneously denied motion to amend pleadings to add quasi-contractual claims where defendant's acquiescence to introduction of evidence in support of those claims and argument on those claims in defendant's own pleadings demonstrated implied consent to trying the claims and a lack of surprise by amendment.