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  • Payne v. Samsung Elec. Am., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-04
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Electronics | Manufacturing | Retail
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David C. Malatesta, Jr., Shelsby & Leoni, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Donald M. Ransom, Daniel P. Daly, Casarino Christman Shalk Ransom & Doss, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher T. Logullo, Cobb & Logullo, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: N23C-03-193 FWW

    Court dismissed case where plaintiff was on inquiry notice that retaining or using product constituted agreement to binding arbitration with manufacturer, with the arbitration agreement delegating questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator.

  • Cline v. The Nemours Found.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-23
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care | Non-Profit
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Lewis Welch, Doroshaw, Pasquale, Krawitz & Bhaya, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Keri L. Morris-Johnson, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: N22A-11-003 FWW

    Industrial Accident Board erred in failing to consider claimant's individual circumstances in determining whether claimant had exhausted reasonable conservative treatment and thus had made surgical treatment reasonable and necessary.

  • Biegler v. Underwriting Serv. Mgmt. Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raeann Warner, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Loren R. Barron, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: N23C-01-180 FWW

    Negligence and tortious interference claims against insurer brought by insurance agent failed where insurer lacked specific knowledge of the business relationship between the agent and the agent's client and would not have reason to know they would be liable for damage arising from the client's termination of the agent's services following the insurer's policy cancellation.

  • Qlarant v. IP Commercialization Labs, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-07-19
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Consulting | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Johanna Peuscher-Funk, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John G. Harris, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Meredith Sharoky Paley, Spiro Harrison, Short Hills, NJ; Jason Charles Spiro, Spiro Harrison, Red Bank, NJ for defendant.
    Case Number: D69887

    Court lacked personal jurisdiction over purported shareholder of party to asset purchase agreement, where the purported shareholder had no contacts with Delaware and the court declined to enforce the forum selection clause in the APA as the shareholder was not a signatory to that contract.

  • Independence Realty Trust, Inc. v. USA Carrington Park 20, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-03-22
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James S. Green, Jr., Jared T. Green, Seitz, Van Ogtrop & Green, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs Edward F. Brovelli, Jr., individually, and as trustee of The Brovelli Family Trust 2A and defendant USA Carrington Park 20, LLC.
    for defendant: Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; John J. Sullivan, Cozen O’Connor, New York, NY, for defendants Independence Realty Operating Partnership, LP, Independence Realty Trust, Inc., Independence Realty Advisors, LLC, IRT Carrington Apartments Owner, LLC and plaintiffs Independent Realty Trust, Inc., and Independence Realty Operating Partnership, LP.
    Case Number: D69751

    The court held the trust had standing to sue defendants because defendant Carrington had transferred its right to sue to the trust, that Brovelli as an individual did not have standing to sue because he was not a party to any of the subject contracts, that defendants who were not parties to the subject contracts should be dismissed, and that whether damages were direct or consequential had issues of fact and were not appropriate for a motion to dismiss.

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  • Knecht v. Ford Motor Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-13
    Practice Area: Occupational Safety and Health
    Industry: Automotive | Chemicals and Materials
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam Balick, Michael Collins Smith and Patrick J. Smith, Balick & Balick, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Bar-tholomew J. Dalton, Ipek K. Medford, Andrew C. Dalton and Michael C. Dalton, Dalton & Assoc., Wil-mington, DE; Danny R. Kraft, Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Christian J. Singewald and Rochelle L. Gumaspac, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE for de-fendant.
    Case Number: D68457

    Defendant in this asbestos exposure case was not entitled to judgment as a matter of law or a new trial.