DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) – The slate is wiped clean for a second Delaware trial after the first included the plaintiff’s lawyer crying and calling the defendants “filth” and a $500,000 punitive damages award – even though only $28 in compensatory damages were issued.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Monsanto is again asking a Delaware judge to toss a lawsuit that demands a cancer warning label on its weedkiller Roundup, despite both the federal government and state of California determining that wouldn’t be appropriate.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – A man who sought to cure his insomnia and instead ended up impotent can’t sue the maker of the medication he took – a drug known to cause prolonged erections as a side effect.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – A spa that employed a man accused of sexually assaulting his clients will have to face vicarious liability charges from a woman who says she was groped at a different spa.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – A Delaware court has ruled against a watchdog and news agency in their effort to obtain information associated with President-Elect Joe Biden’s senatorial career.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – A Delaware judge won’t change her ruling that allows into evidence statements made by an asbestos plaintiff who died before his case could make it to trial.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A Delaware court recently threw out a woman’s lawsuit against a hospital that warned her not to breastfeed her newborn baby after it tested positive for marijuana.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A Delaware court blocked American International Industries, a closely held cosmetics maker that is being sued over its Clubman talc brand, from dragging Clubman’s defunct former owner into asbestos lawsuits elsewhere around the nation.
GEORGETOWN, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The judge overseeing a long-running, acrimonious nuisance suit over a Delaware chicken farm rejected the latest attempt to reverse his rulings on whether the case belongs in his court, saying the plaintiffs “would suffer serious prejudice from delay.”
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A doctor’s attempt to “correct” her deposition after a plaintiff expert accused her of violating the standard of care was excessive and, if allowed, could undermine the legal process, a Delaware judge ruled.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – A trucking company might face punitive damages for employing a driver with an “abysmal” driving record who is said to have negligently plowed into a disabled vehicle on the highway.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A Delaware judge has rejected an insurance company’s plea to appeal a ruling that requires it to cover Rite Aid’s costs in defending against more than 1,000 opioid lawsuits, saying that while the dollar amount was potentially large, the contract issues involved were relatively pedestrian.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A Delaware court awarded costs of litigation to Burlington Northern Railway after the company won a lawsuit over bladder cancer, rejecting language from prior decisions suggesting defendants should walk away without seeking money from the losing side.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Boeing has won a small victory in Delaware in one of the many lawsuits brought by investors over the company’s problems with its 737 Max airplanes that were involved in two deadly crashes.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Pointing out a spelling error did not work for an asbestos defendant facing a Delaware lawsuit but other arguments earned it summary judgment.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – The affidavits of a man who died two days before a scheduled deposition in his asbestos lawsuit will be admitted as evidence, over the objections of the remaining defendants.
GEORGETOWN, Del. (Legal Newsline) — The Delaware Superior Court granted a motion to sever Imerys Talc America Inc. from more than 200 lawsuits that involve talc products.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Texas-based software company ISN Software Corporation has twice in two years failed to convince Delaware courts that the toll on legal malpractice lawsuit over bad advice that cost the company $67 million should begin when it found out about the cost.
GEORGETOWN, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The Superior Court of Delaware has denied a request for judgment from an insurance company but ordered a new trial because a $500,000 punitive damages award against it "shocks the court's conscience."
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newline) – The owner of a Newark, Delaware, business was granted its motion for summary judgment in a case over allegations one of its minority owners sexually abused minors.
